The Undisputed Queen Of Blues

~ Release by Bessie Smith (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
#TitleRatingLength
1Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
3:33
2Take Me for a Buggy Ride
2:40
3Do Your Duty
double bass:
Billy Taylor Sr. (jazz bassist) (on 1933-11-24)
guitar:
Bobby Johnson (US guitarist) (on 1933-11-24)
piano:
Buck Washington (on 1933-11-24)
tenor saxophone:
Leon “Chu” Berry (on 1933-11-24)
trombone:
Jack Teagarden (on 1933-11-24)
trumpet:
Frankie Newton (on 1933-11-24)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1933-11-24)
recording of:
Do Your Duty (on 1933-11-24)
writer:
Wesley A. Wilson
3:28
4I’m Down in the Dumps
3:13
5Send Me to the ’Lectric Chair
recording of:
Send Me to the ’Lectric Chair (on 1927-03-03)
lyricist and composer:
George Brooks (composer, early 20th century)
3:25
6Empty Bed Blues, Part 1
3:05
7Empty Bed Blues, Part 2
3:24
8There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
3:23
9Trombone Cholly
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1927-03-03)
recording of:
Trombone Cholly (on 1927-03-03)
writer:
George Brooks and George Johnson (1930s American jazz musician, worked primarily in Europe)
3:14
10Kitchen Man
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1929-05-08)
guitar:
Eddie Lang (US jazz guitarist, also recorded as Blind Willie Dunn) (in 1928, on 1929-05-08)
piano:
Clarence Williams (US jazz pianist, composer, singer and bandleader) (on 1929-05-08)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1929-05-08)
recording of:
Kitchen Man (on 1929-05-08)
lyricist and composer:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer)
3:00
11I’m Wild About That Thing
2:52
12Me and My Gin
2:54
13Poor Man’s Blues
3:28
14Dyin’ By the Hour
3:02
15I’ve Got What It Takes (But It Breaks My Heart to Give It Away)
3:13
16He’s Got Me Goin’
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1929-08-20)
piano:
James P. Johnson (on 1929-08-20)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1929-08-20)
recording of:
He's Got Me Goin' (on 1929-08-20)
writer:
Michael H. Gray
3:17
17Dirty No-Gooder’s Blues
3:00
18Black Mountain Blues
3:11
19Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
2:51
20Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1929-05-12, on 1929-05-15)
alto saxophone:
Garvin Bushell (on 1929-05-12, on 1929-05-15)
cornet:
Ed Allen (trumpeter) (on 1929-05-12, on 1929-05-15)
piano:
Clarence Williams (US jazz pianist, composer, singer and bandleader) (on 1929-05-12, on 1929-05-15)
tenor saxophone:
Greely Walton (on 1929-05-12, on 1929-05-15)
tuba:
Cyrus St. Clair (on 1929-05-15)
tuba [brass bass]:
Cyrus St. Clair (on 1929-05-12)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1929-05-12, on 1929-05-15)
recording of:
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out (on 1929-05-15)
lyricist and composer:
Jimmy Cox
publisher:
B. Feldman & Co. Ltd. (publisher est. 1946) and MCA Music (not for release label use! this is a music publisher, ASCAP-affiliated)
part of:
The Real Book (compilation of jazz standards, Volume I)
52:59