LIZZIE MILES BLUES 78 A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND / SALTY DOG CAPITOL CL 14014 E
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AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS RARER BLUES 78 FROM LIZZIE MILES ON THE UK CAPITOL LABEL
A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND
b/w SALTY DOG
WONDERFUL STUFF!!
Lizzie Miles was born on Bourbon Street and she was singing with the New Orleans Jazz bands of , and while she was still a teenager. She worked as a song plugger for and publishing company and toured the southern vaudeville circuit, worked in a circus and with minstrel shows, before moving to Chicago in the early 1920s. In Chicago she performed with , and with .
By 1922 Miles had relocated to New York where she began her recording career in 1922 and played clubs and cabarets with the and with . In 1924 she toured Europe and played in Paris at Louis Mitchell's club Chez Mitchell and other venues for the next couple of years. In 1927 she returned to New York where she spent most of the remainder of the 1920s and 1930s. She performed in clubs around the city with numerous acts that included groups led by and .
In the late 1930s, Miles returned to New Orleans and left show business until the l950s when she resumed her career performing and recording with the Bob Scobey Band until she retired in 1959. Miles died of a heart attack in 1963. Lizzie Miles was the half sister of Blues singer and trumpet player Herb Morand.
DISC DETAILS UK CAPITOL CL 14014 (US RELEASE on 2341) 10" 78rpm 1952 SHELLAC
A SIDE:- SALTY DOG
B SIDE:- A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND
CONDITION - E
TWO GREAT BLUES SIDES FROM LIZZIE MILES IN EXCELLENT CONDITION!
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