Who Was The First Blues Singer To Be Recorded

Called Crazy Blues it is the first evidence of recorded blues.

Who was the first blues singer to be recorded. The most oft quoted incident of the first blues recording is Mamie Smiths recording of Crazy Blues in 1920. Frankie Davidson was a popular singer in the mid fifties playing many dances around Melbourne at venues like the Ziegfeld Palais. Delta-style bluesman on wax.

On 10 August 1920 a group of musicians collectively known as The Jazz Hounds recorded a song with Mamie Smith called Crazy Blues the first blues record. The first commercial Blues record was Mamie Smith s Crazy Blues in 1920 which sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Its impossible to trace a first blues singer but the first recorded blues musician within the genre which today is recognized as blues was probably Sylvester Curly Weaver when he recorded Guitar Blues and Guitar Rag in 1923.

Bessie Smith April 15 1894 September 26 1937 was an American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz AgeNicknamed the Empress of the Blues she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930sShe is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and was a major influence on fellow blues singers as well as jazz vocalists. This is the first to be written and recorded by and Australian act. Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith 1920.

First 3 male rural blues singers to get on disc. They all recorded in 1923. In 1953 they brought in Wexler as a partner and he and Ertegun were instrumental in.

The founding of Atlantic Records in 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun a jazz fan and the son of a Turkish diplomat and Herb Abramson a music industry professional shifted the industrys centre to New York City. Also Bo Weavil Jackson Blind Blake Mr. He started singing with pianist Roosevelt Sykes and guitarist Henry Townsend.

I remember after pursuing my curiosity to seek out what was considered to be the first recorded blues record feeling somewhat disappointed after my first listen to Crazy Blues. The first blues guitarist to hit it big was Blind Lemon Jefferson a Texas-born musician who was discovered in Dallas and brought to Chicago to perform. If those vaudeville Bieber type pop-singers of the time are ignored then the claim goes to Sylvester Curley Weaver Papa Charlie Jackson Ma Rainey Bessie Smith Ed Andrews and Charles Anderson.