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Big Bill Broonzy

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Aliases
Big Bill
"Big Bill" Broonzy
Big Bill Broonzy and His Big Little Orchestra
Big Bill and His Chicago Five
Big Bill Johnson
Real name
William Lee Conley Broonzy
Born
June 26, 1893
Died
August 15, 1958
Country
United States
IPI
00004311545 6 works
00136044795 20 works
00136044893 2 works
00220364216 1 work
00220364314 3 works
Affiliation
BMI
Comments
Blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
Member of
State Street Boys
Chicago Sanctified Singers
Harum Scarums (1931)
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Covers by Big Bill Broonzy

Title Performer Release date Originally by
1962 Merle Travis
1954 Bessie Smith
i 1980 (unknown)
1954 Arthur Collins
listen on Internet Archive November 1951 Brownie McGhee
1954 Burl Ives
1936 Bumble Bee Slim
Careless Love Big Bill Broonzy 1965 Unverified
1935 Ma Rainey - Acc. by Her Georgia Jazz Band
1954 Honeyboy and Sassafras
1957 Little Son Joe
1952 Fisk University Jubilee Singers
1959 Fisk University Jubilee Singers
1956 (unknown)
1949 Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
  1957 The Leighton Brothers REC, Paul Biese Trio REL
1955 Willie Bryant and His Orchestra
  1959 Lead Belly REL, Leadbelly REC
1965 Carl Haworth
August 1957 Henry Whitter
May 1942 Casey Bill
August 1957 Ted Lewis and His Band
1954 Fiddlin' John Carson
Kansas City Blues Big Bill Broonzy April 17, 1961 Unverified
1941 Charles Segar
1940 Oscar Woods - The Lone Wolf
1957 "Big Boy" Teddy Edwards
1937 Johnnie Temple
Match Box Blues Big Bill May 1936 Unverified
New Shake 'Em on Down Big Bill Broonzy June 1938 Unverified
June 1938 The Honey Dripper
1957 Sleepy John Estes, Big Maceo
1932 The Hokum Boys [US1]
April 1938 Casey Bill
1956 Standard Quartette
1956 Chicago Sanctified Singers
1956 Rev. C.D. Montgomery, Dave Cutrell with McGinty's Oklahoma Cow Boy Band
1962 Florida Normal Industrial Institute Quartet
1954 Thelma La Vizzo
1980 (unknown)
February 1958 Leroy Carr
1957 Tampa Red
1968 Bob Thompson [US1]

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