Bessie Smith Baby Wont You Please Come Home 1923

Bessie Smith Baby Won t You Please Come Home 1923 Bessie Smith (1892 or 1894 1937) was the most popular and successful female American blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, and a strong influence on subsequent generations, including Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone and Janis Joplin. This is one of her first recordings in 1923 with pianist Clarence Williams. In no other way than living the kind of violent, harddrinking street life she sang about, could Bessie Smith hav