Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues"

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1. Story
2. Okeh records the vaudeville singer Mamie Smith in New York performing "Crazy Blues", written by the Black songwriter Perry Bradford — the first vocal blues recording by an African American artist. Its commercial success, much of it with Black purchasers the industry had not counted as a market, prompted companies to create dedicated catalogue series and to send field units south. Almost everything later generations know about early blues survives because this record sold.
3. Knowledge
4. New York City
5. Blues
6. Race records
7. Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues"
8. Connections
9. Race records
10. Blues
11. New York City
12. Blues
13. Sound recording
14. Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues"
15. Colonial prohibition of drumming
16. The Mississippi Delta
17. Jazz
18. Guitar
19. The Great Migration
20. Samba
21. Race records
22. W. C. Handy hears a guitarist at Tutwiler station
23. The Great Migration
24. Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues"
25. Muddy Waters is recorded at Stovall Farm
26. New York City Marathon
27. London
28. New York Road Runners
29. The first New York City Marathon, in Central Park
30. New York goes to five boroughs
31. The first jazz record is made
32. Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues"
33. Evidence
34. Mamie Smith recorded "Crazy Blues", written by Perry Bradford, for Okeh in New York on 10 August 1920; it was the first vocal blues recording by an African American artist, sold strongly to Black purchasers, and prompted the record industry's race-records series. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary alongside encyclopaedic accounts; the Registry essay PDF was not opened, and the widely repeated million-copy sales figure is not adopted here.