![]() ![]() Accompanied solely by the great Clarence Williams and released with Columbia Records, the record sold over 780,000 copies in the first six months, making her famous. It was her first recording, backed by "Gulf Coast Blues". In this song, a woman laments how hard it is to "love someone when that someone don't love you".īessie Smith made the song a hit in 1923. Lovie Austin is considered one of the best female jazz-blues pianists of the classic blues era and even led her own band. ![]() " Down Hearted Blues" was composed by Lovie Austin and co-written with American jazz singer Alberta Hunter. So in honor of the new year, and to look back on how much the world has changed (and stayed the same), here are 10 hits from 1923 celebrating their 100th birthday. Through these recordings, we can hear how, despite the fact that the '20s were ruled by segregation and racist sentiments, the most popular music of the era was heavily influenced by the work of black performers who created and defined ragtime, jazz, and blues, and how their work continues to be the most relevant of the time today. And with these records, we gained the ability to carry with us, and venture into the past in a new way.Īs we move into the 2020s we are able to queue up century-old performers with ease. As the music industry massively expanded, the music of the greats was catapulted into the everyday and the most important product of the music business was no longer sheet music, but records. Just 100 years ago, radio came into being and the art of silent film disappeared. In the last decades of the 19th century, the ability to record sounds changed everything and between 19, record players worked their way into most households.
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