BESSIE SMITH - PLEASE HELP ME GET HIM OFF MY MIND (IMPORT LP)

Bessie Smith Please Help Me Get Him Off My Mind Volume 2 on Import LP

Born into poverty in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1894, the Empress of the blues, Bessie Smith, began singing on street corners for change, but by 1912 she was performing with Ma Rainey's traveling show, fast on her way to becoming one of the most popular singers on the vaudeville circuit.

Her 1923 debut single for Columbia Records ("Gulf Coast Blues/Down Hearted Blues") sold 800,000 copies across racial lines, to both black and white audiences. By the time the sides on this LP were recorded in 1928 in NYC, Smith was the highest-paid/biggest-selling black recording artist in the world, traveling to performances in her own railway car and even saving Columbia from bankruptcy thanks to the sale of her records.

"Empty Bed Blues," featured here along with some lesser-known (but by no means lesser) recordings, is one of only three Smith recordings to be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Bessie Smith Please Help Me Get Him Off My Mind Track Listing:

1.  Standin' In The Rain
2.  It Won't Be You
3.  Spider Man Blues
4.  Empty Bed Blues Part 1
5.  Empty Bed Blues Part 2
6.  Put It Right In There
7.  Yes Indeed He Do
8.  Devil's Gonne Git You
9.  You Ought To Be Ashamed
10. Washwoman's Blues
11. Slow And Easy Man
12. Poor Man's Blues
13. Please Help Me Get Him Off My Mind
14. Me And My Gin