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Artist: Bessie Smith
Author: Wesley Wilson
Label: Okeh
Year: 1933
With Benny Goodman. While her career was in decline, singing just pornographic songs for tips. Do Your Duty (see there) comes from that same session. But see also: Alabama Jubilee.
Covers:
Diana Ross [in film Lady Sings The Blues]
Author Wesley Wilson (aka Kid Sox Wilson or Pigmeat Pete) never recorded it. He performed in vaudeville since 1905 with his wife Leola B. Pettigrew (aka Coot Grant), mostly as Grant & Wilson (see also: Keep Your Hands Off My Mojo).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)