Mamie Smith's performance of Perry Bradford's "Crazy Blues" in 1920. Problems playing this file? See media help. Perry Bradford (February 14, 1893, Montgomery...
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knocking lover has behaved badly. Early versions are sometimes credited to Perry Bradford and J. Mayo Williams. Variations were recorded by James "Boodle It"...
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in New York City, after African-American songwriter and bandleader Perry Bradford persuaded Fred Hager to break the color barrier in black music recording...
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from the originally titled "Harlem Blues" song of 1918, written by Perry Bradford. Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds recorded it on August 10, 1920, which...
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music from the mid-1920s identifies the composers as Gus Horsley and Perry Bradford and claims the dance was introduced by the African-American dancer and...
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Reissue bonus tracks No. Title Writer(s) Length 13. "Keep A-Knockin'" Perry Bradford 1:56 14. "Don't Believe in Christmas" (patterned after "Too Much Monkey...
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Advantage of Me" (Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers) "The Black Bottom" (Perry Bradford) "The Peanut Vendor" (Moisés Simons) "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett...
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screenwriter Perry Blake (born 1970), Irish singer and songwriter Perry Bradford (1893–1970), African-American composer and vaudeville performer Perry Brass...
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Perry Bradford's "Crazy Blues" in 1920 Problems playing this file? See media help. In 1919, Handy and the Harlem songwriter and music publisher Perry...
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in His Honor the Barber, an African-American road show. According to Perry Bradford, himself a songster and publisher, the song was written about an actual...
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