Bessie Smith

• Highlights
• Originals 53
• Covers 37
• Works 16
• Releases 88
• All

Covers by Bessie Smith

		Title	Performer	Release date	Originally by
		After You've Gone	Bessie Smith and Her Band	April 20, 1927	Campbell and Burr
		Aggravatin' Papa	Bessie Smith and Her Down Home Trio	June 1923	Lucille Hegamin and Her Blue Flame Syncopators REC, Florence Mills PRF
		A Good Man Is Hard to Find	Bessie Smith	October 30, 1927	Ernest Hare
		Alexander's Ragtime Band	Bessie Smith and Her Blue Boys	July 10, 1927	Emma Carus PRF, Collins and Harlan REC
		Baby Won't You Please Come Home Blues	Bessie Smith - Clarence Williams at the Piano	June 1923	Eva Taylor - Piano Accomp. by Clarence Williams
		Beale Street Mamma	Bessie Smith and Her Down Home Trio	June 1923	Lucille Hegamin and Her Blue Flame Syncopators
		Cake Walking Babies (From Home)	Bessie Smith accompanied by Henderson's Hot Six	October 1940	Red Onion Jazz Babies
		Careless Love Blues	Bessie Smith	August 1925	(unknown)
		Chicago Bound Blues	Bessie Smith	December 13, 1923	Ida Cox - Lovie Austin, Piano Acc.
		Down Hearted Blues	Bessie Smith - Clarence Williams at the Piano	May 1923	Alberta Hunter
		Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)	Bessie Smith feat. Queen Latifah	May 16, 2015	Bessie Smith - Orchestra accompanied by Buck and His Band
		Graveyard Dream Blues	Bessie Smith	November 1923	Ida Cox - Accompanied by Lovie Austin and Her Blues Serenaders
		I Ain't Got Nobody	Bessie Smith and Her Band	September 30, 1925	Marion Harris
		Keeps On A-Rainin'	Bessie Smith - Clarence Williams at the Piano	June 1923	Sara Martin
		Kitchen Man	Bessie Smith	July 19, 1929	Sara Martin Acc. by Clarence Williams & His Orchestra
		Mama's Got the Blues	Bessie Smith - Fletcher Henderson at the Piano	July 1923	Sara Martin
		Mean Old Bed Bug Blues	Bessie Smith	October 30, 1927	Lonnie Johnson
		Midnight Blues	Bessie Smith - Fletcher Henderson at the Piano	August 1923	Ethel Waters and The Jazz Masters
		Mistreatin' Daddy	Bessie Smith	December 13, 1923	Viola McCoy - Piano Accompaniment by Porter Grainger
		Money Blues	Bessie Smith	June 1926	Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
		Moonshine Blues	Bessie Smith - Irving Johns at the Piano	June 1924	Madame "Ma" Rainey – Acc. by Lovie Austin and Her Blues Serenaders
		Muddy Water	Bessie Smith and Her Band	April 20, 1927	Harold Leonard and His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra
		My Sweetie Went Away	Bessie Smith	November 1923	Howard Lanin's Arcadia Orchestra
		New Orleans Hop Scop Blues	Bessie Smith	April 30, 1930	Sara Martin – Piano Accomp. by Clarence Williams
		Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out	Bessie Smith	1929	Jimmie Cox PRF, Blind Bobby Baker and His Guitar REC,REL
		Nobody's Blues but Mine	Bessie Smith & Her Band	October 20, 1925	Margaret Johnson - Piano Accomp by Clarence Williams
		Oh Daddy Blues	Bessie Smith - Clarence Williams at the Piano	June 1923	Ethel Waters - Cordy Williams' Jazz Masters
		On Revival Day	Bessie Smith & The Bessemer Singers	July 1930	Rube Bloom and His Bayou Boys
		Outside of That	Bessie Smith - Fletcher Henderson at the Piano	July 1923	Esther Bigeou
		Sam Jones' Blues	Bessie Smith - Irving Johns at the Piano	1923	Lucille Hegamin and The Dixie Daisies
		Sobbin' Hearted Blues	Bessie Smith	February 10, 1925	Sara Martin with Piano Accomp. by Clarence Williams
		Squeeze Me	Bessie Smith	May 10, 1926	Clarence Williams' Blue Five - Vocal Chorus by Eva Taylor REL, William Bailey REC
		St. Louis Gal	Bessie Smith	1923	Lucille Hegamin and The Dixie Daisies
		'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness if I Do	Bessie Smith - Clarence Williams at the Piano	June 1923	Tennessee Ten (Original Memphis Five), Anna Meyers and Original Memphis Five
		There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town To-Night	Bessie Smith and Her Blue Boys	July 10, 1927	(unknown)
		The St. Louis Blues	Bessie Smith	April 10, 1925	Prince's Band
		The Yellow Dog Blues	Bessie Smith - Accomp. by Henderson's Hot Six	June 1925	Prince's Band