VICTORIA SPIVEY 1st EVER BLUES 78 OKEH 8338
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A REALLY EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS RARE 1926 BLUES ORIGINAL -VICTORIA SPIVEY'S FIRST!!
Spivey was one of the more influential blues women simply because she was around long enough to influence legions of younger women and men who rediscovered blues music during the mid-'60s U.S. blues revival brought about by British blues bands as well as their American counterparts, like Paul Butterfield and Elvin Bishop. Spivey could do it all: she wrote songs, sang them well, and accompanied herself on piano and organ, and occasionally ukulele.
Spivey began her recording career at age 19 and came from the same rough-and-tumble clubs in Houston and Dallas that produced Sippie Wallace. In 1918, she left home to work as a pianist at the Lincoln Theater in Dallas. In the early 1920s, she played in gambling parlors, gay hangouts and whorehouses in Galveston and Houston with Blind Lamon Jefferson. Among Spivey's many influences was Ida Cox herself a sassy blues woman, and taking her cue from Cox, Spivey wrote and recorded tunes like "TB Blues," "Dope Head Blues" and "Organ Grinder Blues" in the 1920s. Spivey's other influences included Robert Calvin, Sara Martin and Bessie Smith. Like so many other women blues singers who had their heyday in the 1920s and '30s, Spivey wasn't afraid to sing sexually suggestive lyrics, and this turned out to be a blessing nearly 40 years later in the sexual revolution of the 1960s and early '70s.
She recorded her first song, "Black Snake Blues," for the Okeh label in 1926, and then worked as a songwriter at a music publishing company in St. Louis in the late 1920s. In the 1930s, Spivey recorded for the Victor, Vocalion, Decca and Okeh labels, and moved to New York City, working as a featured performer in a number of African-American musical revues, including the "Hellzapoppin' Revue.'' In the 1930s, she recorded and spent time on the road with Louis Armstrong's various bands. By the 1950s, Spivey had left show business and sang only in church. But in forming her own Spivey Records label in 1962, she found new life in her old career. Her first release on her own label featured Bob Dylan as an accompanist. As the folk revival began to take hold in the early 1960s, Spivey found herself an in-demand performer on the folk-blues festival circuit. She also performed frequently in nightclubs around New York City.
8338A VICTORIA SPIVEY BLACK SNAKE BLUES 09651=A 5/5/26 SPIVEY-JOHNSON 8338B VICTORIA SPIVEY NO MORE JELLY BEAN BLUES 09679=A 5/11/26 SPIVEY-BARNES
DISC DETAILS: - OKEH 8338 (Recorded St. Louis)
A SIDE : DIRTY WOMAN BLUES Matrix # 9651A A-19 accompanied by her own piano
B SIDE: NO MORE JELLY BEAN BLUES Matrix # 9679-a A-24 accompanied by Pierce Gist - cornet and DeLoyd Barnes - piano
THIS COPY RATED EX+ - BOTH SIDES PLAY STRONGLY WITH VIRTUALLY NO BACKGROUND NOISE, NO SKIPS AND NO JUMPS
A FANTASTIC ORIGINAL BLUES CLASSIC!
DON'T MISS IT - BID NOW !!!
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