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Mamie Smith

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Mamie Smith (née Robinson; May 26, c. 1883 – September 16, 1946) was an American vaudeville singer, dancer, pianist and actress. [1]

47 relations: African Americans, Ajax Records, Bessie Smith, Billboard Hot 100, Blues, Bob Fuller, Buster Bailey, Cincinnati, Classic female blues, Coleman Hawkins, Crazy Blues, Edinburgh University Press, Everett Robbins, Garvin Bushell, George W. Johnson (singer), Harlem, Herb Flemming, Jailhouse Blues, James "Bubber" Miley, Jazz, Johnny Dunn, Joseph Samuels, Jules Levy (musician), Library of Congress, List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients (A–D), Murder on Lenox Avenue, National Recording Registry, New York City, Okeh Records, Oxford University Press, Paradise in Harlem, Perry Bradford, Porter Grainger, Portland, Oregon, Race record, Royal Garden Blues, Sound film, Staten Island, Stolen Paradise, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Tutt Brothers, University of California Press, University of Illinois Press, Vaudeville, Victor Talking Machine Company, Willie "The Lion" Smith, 1910 United States Census.

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Ajax Records

Ajax Records was a record company and label founded in 1921.

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Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bob Fuller

Bob Fuller (December 31, 1898 – unknown) was an American blues and jazz saxophonist and clarinetist, best known for his recordings accompanying female singers of the 1920s.

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Buster Bailey

William C. "Buster" Bailey (July 19, 1902 – April 12, 1967) was a jazz clarinetist.

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Cincinnati

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Classic female blues

Classic female blues was an early form of blues music, popular in the 1920s.

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Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Crazy Blues

"Crazy Blues" is a song written by Perry Bradford.

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Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Everett Robbins

Everett "Happy" Robbins was a Chicago-based pianist, Retrieved 15 May 2013.

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Garvin Bushell

Garvin Bushell (September 25, 1902 – October 31, 1991) was an American woodwind multi-instrumentalist.

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George W. Johnson (singer)

George Washington Johnson (c. October 1846 – January 23, 1914) was a singer and pioneer sound recording artist, the first African-American recording star of the phonograph.

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Harlem

Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Herb Flemming

Herb Flemming or Fleming (April 5, 1898, Butte, Montana – October 3, 1976, New York City) was an American jazz trombonist and vocalist who played extensively in Europe.

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Jailhouse Blues

Jailhouse Blues (1929) is a motion picture released by Columbia Pictures.

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James "Bubber" Miley

James Wesley "Bubber" Miley (April 3, 1903 – May 20, 1932) was an American early jazz trumpet and cornet player, specializing in the use of the plunger mute.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Johnny Dunn

Johnny Dunn (February 19, 1897 – August 20, 1937) was an American traditional jazz trumpeter and vaudeville performer, who was born in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Joseph Samuels

Joseph Samuels was an American musician and bandleader, who is today virtually only known through his recordings.

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Jules Levy (musician)

Jules Levy (April 24, 1838 – November 28, 1903) was a cornetist, teacher, and composer.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients (A–D)

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Murder on Lenox Avenue

Murder on Lenox Avenue is a 1941 American film directed by Arthur Dreifuss.

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National Recording Registry

The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by the Librarian of Congress.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Okeh Records

Okeh Records is an American record label founded by the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corporation, a phonograph supplier established in 1916, which branched out into phonograph records in 1918.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Paradise in Harlem

Paradise in Harlem is a 1939 American musical comedy-drama film written by Frank H. Wilson and directed by Joseph Seiden.

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Perry Bradford

Perry Bradford (February 14, 1893, Montgomery, Alabama – April 20, 1970, New York City) was an African-American composer, songwriter, and vaudeville performer.

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Porter Grainger

Porter Grainger (October 22, 1891 − c. 1955; fl New York) was an African-American pianist, songwriter, playwright, and music publisher.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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Race record

Race records were 78-rpm phonograph records marketed to African Americans between the 1920s and 1940s.

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Royal Garden Blues

"Royal Garden Blues" is a blues song composed by Clarence Williams and Spencer Williams in 1919.

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Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

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Staten Island

Staten Island is the southernmost and westernmost of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York.

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Stolen Paradise

Stolen Paradise also released as Adolescence is a 1940 youth film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and filmed in and around Coral Gables, Florida.

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.

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Tutt Brothers

Salem Tutt Whitney (1869–1934) and J. Homer Tutt (1882–1951), known collectively as the Tutt Brothers, were American vaudeville producers, writers and performers of the late 19th and early 20th century.

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University of California Press

University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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University of Illinois Press

The University of Illinois Press (UIP) is a major American university press and is part of the University of Illinois system.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.

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Victor Talking Machine Company

The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American record company and phonograph manufacturer headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.

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Willie "The Lion" Smith

William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith (November 25, 1897 – April 18, 1973), also known as "The Lion", was an American jazz pianist and one of the masters of the stride style, usually grouped with James P. Johnson and Thomas "Fats" Waller as the three greatest practitioners of the genre in its golden age, from about 1920 to 1943.

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1910 United States Census

The Thirteenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau on April 15, 1910, determined the resident population of the United States to be 92,228,496, an increase of 21.0 percent over the 76,212,168 persons enumerated during the 1900 Census.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Smith

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