베시 스미스

서명 = **베시 스미스**(Bessie Smith, 1894년 4월 15일 ~ 1937년 9월 26일)는 재즈 시대에 널리 알려진 미국의 블루스 가수이다. 별명은 Empress of the Blues였으며 1930년대와 1950년대의 가장 대중적인 여성 블루스 가수였다. 그녀의 시대에서 가장 위대한 가수들 가운데 한 명으로 인식되곤 하며 동료 블루스 가수들과 재즈 보컬리스트에 큰 영향을 미쳤다.access-date=August 30, 2015 미국 테네시주 채터누가에서 태어난 스미스는 어려서 부모를 일찍 여의고 그녀와 형제자매는 거리 모서리에서 공연을 함으로써 생계를 이어나갔다. 마 레이니가 소속된 단체에서 투어와 공연을 시작했으며 이후 그녀 자신만의 길을 걸어나갔다. 콜럼비아 레코드와의 성공적인 레코딩 경력이 1920년대에 시작되었으나 자동차 사고로 인해 43세 나이로 사망했다.
# 히트 레코드
1936년까지 미국에서 공식적인 레코드 차트는 존재하지 않는다. {| class="wikitable" |- !연도 !싱글 !미국
팝url=https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whitdate=March 3, 2013 and those listed here should not be taken as definitive. |- |rowspan="5"|1923 |"Downhearted Blues" | |1 |- |"Gulf Coast Blues" | |5 |- |"Aggravatin' Papa" | |12 |- |"Baby Won't You Please Come Home" | |6 |- |"T'ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness if I Do" | |9 |- |rowspan="3"|1925 |"The St. Louis Blues" | |3 |- |"Careless Love Blues" | |5 |- |"I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle" | |8 |- |rowspan="2"|1926 |"I Ain't Got Nobody" | |8 |- |"Lost Your Head Blues" | |5 |- |rowspan="2"|1927 |"After You've Gone" | |7 |- |"Alexander's Ragtime Band" | |17 |- |rowspan="2"|1928 |"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" | |13 |- |"Empty Bed Blues" | |20 |- ||1929 |"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" | |15 |} **78 RPM Singles — Columbia Records** {| class="wikitable" |A-3844 |"Gulf Coast Blues" |1923-02-16 |- |A-3844 |"Down Hearted Blues" |1923-02-16 |- |A-3877 |"Aggravatin' Papa" |1923-04-11 |- |A-3877 |"Beale Street Mama" |1923-04-11 |- |A-3888 |"Baby Won't You Please Come Home" |1923-04-11 |- |A-3888 |"Oh Daddy Blues" |1923-04-11 |- |A-3898 |"Keeps on A Rainin All Time" |1923-02-16 |- |A-3898 |"Tain't Nobody's Bizness if I Do" |1923-04-26 |- |A-3900 |"Outside of That" |1923-04-30 |- |A-3900 |"Mama's Got the Blues" |1923-04-30 |- |A-3936 |"Bleeding Hearted Blues" |1923-06-14 |- |A-3936 |"Midnight Blues" |1923-06-15 |- |A-3939 |"Yodeling Blues" |1923-06-14 |- |A-3939 |"Lady Luck Blues" |1923-06-14 |- |A-3942 |"If You Don't, I Know Who Will" |1923-06-21 |- |A-3942 |"Nobody in Town Can Bake a Jelly Roll Like My Man" |1923-06-22 |- |A-4001 |"Jail House Blues" |1923-09-21 |- |A-4001 |"Graveyard Dream Blues" |1923-09-26 |- |13000 D |"Whoa, Tillie, Take Your Time" |1923-10-24 |- |13000 D |"My Sweetie Went Away" |1923-10-24 |- |13001 D |"Cemetery Blues" |1923-09-26 |- |13001 D |"Any Woman's Blues" |1923-10-16 |- |13005 D |"St Louis Gal" |1923-09-24 |- |13005 D |"Sam Jones' Blues" |1923-09-24 |- |13007 D |"I'm Going Back to My Used to Be" |1923-10-04 |- |13007 D |"Far Away Blues" |1923-10-04 |- |14000 D |"Mistreatin' Daddy" |1923-12-04 |- |14000 D |"Chicago Bound Blues" |1923-12-04 |- |14005 D |"Frosty Mornin' Blues" |1924-01-08 |- |14005 D |"Easy Come Easy Go Blues" |1924-01-10 |- |14010 D |"Eavesdropper Blues" |1924-01-09 |- |14010 D |"Haunted House Blues" |1924-01-09 |- |14018 D |"Boweavil Blues" |1924-04-07 |- |14018 D |"Moonshine Blues" |1924-04-09 |- |14020 D |"Sorrowful Blues" |1924-04-04 |- |14020 D |"Rocking Chair Blues" |1924-04-04 |- |14023 D |"Frankie Blues" |1924-04-08 |- |14023 D |"Hateful Blues" |1924-04-08 |- |14025 D |"Pinchbacks, Take 'em Away" |1924-04-04 |- |14025 D |"Ticket Agent Easy Your Window Down" |1924-04-05 |- |14031 D |"Louisiana Low Down Blues" |1924-07-22 |- |14031 D |"Mountain Top Blues" |1924-07-22 |- |14032 D |"House Rent Blues" |1924-07-23 |- |14032 D |"Work House Blues" |1924-07-23 |- |14037 D |"Rainy Weather Blues" |1924-08-08 |- |14037 D |"Salt Water Blues" |1924-07-31 |- |14042 D |"Bye Bye Blues" |1924-09-26 |- |14042 D |"Weeping Willow Blues" |1924-09-26 |- |14051 D |"Dying Gambler's Blues" |1924-12-06 |- |14051 D |"Sing Sing Prison Blues" |1924-12-06 |- |14052 D |"Follow the Deal on Down" |1924-12-04 |- |14052 D |"Sinful Blues" |1924-11-11 |- |14056 D |"Reckless Blues" |1925-01-14 |- |14056 D |"Sobbin' Hearted Blues" |1925-01-14 |- |14060 D |"Love Me Daddy Blues" |1924-12-12 |- |14060 D |"Woman's Trouble Blues" |1924-12-12 |- |14064 D |"Cold in Hand Blues" |1925-01-14 |- |14064 D |"St Louis Blues" |1925-01-14 |- |14075 D |"Yellow Dog Blues" |1925-05-06 |- |14075 D |"Soft Pedal Blues" |1925-05-14 |- |14079 D |"Dixie Flyer Blues" |1925-05-15 |- |14079 D |"You've Been a Good Ole Wagon" |1925-01-14 |- |14083 D |"Careless Love" |1925-05-26 |- |14083 D |"He's Gone Blues" |1925-06-23 |- |14090 D |"I Ain't Goin' to Play No Second Fiddle" |1925-05-27 |- |14090 D |"Nashville Women's Blues" |1925-05-27 |- |14095 D |"I Ain't Got Nobody" |1925-08-19 |- |14095 D |"J.C.Holmes Blues" |1925-05-27 |- |14098 D |"My Man Blues" |1925-09-01 |- |14098 D |"Nobody's Blues but Mine" |1925-08-19 |- |14109 D |"Florida Bound Blues" |1925-11-17 |- |14109 D |"New Gulf Coast Blues" |1925-11-17 |- |14115 D |"I've Been Mistreated and I Don't Like It" |1925-11-18 |- |14115 D |"Red Mountain Blues" |1925-11-20 |- |14123 D |"Lonesome Desert Blues" |1925-12-09 |- |14123 D |"Golden Rule Blues" |1925-11-20 |- |14129 D |"What's the Matter Now?" |1926-03-05 |- |14129 D |"I Want Every Bit of It" |1926-03-05 |- |14133 D |"Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town" |1926-03-18 |- |14133 D |"Squeeze Me" |1926-03-05 |- |14137 D |"Hard Driving Papa" |1926-05-40 |- |14137 D |"Money Blues" |1926-05-04 |- |14147 D |"Baby Doll" |1926-05-04 |- |14147 D |"Them Has Been Blues" |1926-03-05 |- |14158 D |"Lost Your Head Blues" |1926-05-04 |- |14158 D |"Gin House Blues" |1926-03-18 |- |14172 D |"One and Two Blues" |1926-10-26 |- |14172 D |"Honey Man Blues" |1926-10-25 |- |14179 D |"Hard Time Blues" |1926-10-25 |- |14179 D |"Young Woman's Blues" |1926-10-26 |- |14195 D |"Back Water Blues" |1927-02-17 |- |14195 D |"Preachin' the Blues" |1927-02-17 |- |14197 D |"Muddy Water" |1927-03-02 |- |14197 D |"After You've Gone" |1927-03-02 |- |14209 D |"Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair" |1927-03-03 |- |14209 D |"Them's Graveyard Words" |1927-03-03 |- |14219 D |"There'll Be a Hot Time in Old Town Tonight" |1927-03-02 |- |14219 D |"Alexander's Ragtime Band" |1927-03-02 |- |14232 D |"Trombone Cholly" |1927-03-03 |- |14232 D |"Lock and Key Blues" |1927-04-01 |- |14250 D |"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" |1927-09-27 |- |14250 D |"Mean Old Bed Bug Blues" |1927-09-27 |- |14260 D |"Sweet Mistreater" |1927-04-01 |- |14260 D |"Homeless Blues" |1927-09-28 |- |14273 D |"Dyin' by The Hour" |1927-10-27 |- |14273 D |"Foolish Man Blues" |1927-10-27 |- |14292 D |"I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama" |1928-02-09 |- |14292 D |"Thinking Blues" |1928-02-09 |- |14304 D |"I'd Rather be Dead and Buried in my Grave" |1928-06-16 |- |14304 D |"Pickpocket Blues" |1928-02-09 |- |14312 D |"Empty Bed Blues Pt1" |1928-03-20 |- |14312 D |"Empty Bed Blues Pt2" |1928-03-20 |- |14324 D |"Put It Right Here" |1928-03-20 |- |14324 D |"Spider Man Blues" |1928-03-19 |- |14338 D |"It Won't Be You" |1928-02-12 |- |14338 D |"Standin' in The Rain Blues" |1928-02-12 |- |14354 D |"Devil's Gonna Git You" |1928-08-24 |- |14354 D |"Yes Indeed He Do" |1928-08-24 |- |14375 D |"Washwoman's Blues" |1928-08-24 |- |14375 D |"Please Help Me Get Him Off My Mind" |1928-08-24 |- |14384 D |"Me and My Gin" |1928-08-25 |- |14384 D |"Slow and Easy Man" |1928-08-24 |- |14399 D |"Poor Man's Blues" |1928-08-24 |- |14399 D |"You Ought to be Ashamed" |1928-08-24 |- |14427 D |"You've Got to Give Me Some" |1929-05-08 |- |14427 D |"I'm Wild About that Thing" |1929-05-08 |- |14435 D |"My Kitchen Man" |1929-05-08 |- |14435 D |"I've Got What It Takes" |1929-05-15 |- |14451 D |"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" |1929-05-15 |- |14451 D |"Take It Right Back" |1929-07-25 |- |14464 D |"It Makes My Love Come Down" |1929-08-20 |- |14464 D |"He's Got Me Goin'" |1929-08-20 |- |14476 D |"Dirty No Gooder's Blues" |1929-10-01 |- |14476 D |"Wasted Life Blues" |1929-10-01 |- |14487 D |"Don't Cry Baby" |1929-10-11 |- |14487 D |"You Don't Understand" |1929-10-11 |- |14516 D |"New Orleans Hop Scop Blues" |1930-03-27 |- |14516 D |"Keep It to Yourself" |1930-03-27 |- |14527 D |"Blue Spirit Blues" |1929-10-11 |- |14527 D |"Worn out Papa Blues" |1929-10-11 |- |14538 D |"Moan Mourners" |1930-06-09 |- |14538 D |"On Revival Day" |1930-06-09 |- |14554 D |"Hustlin' Dan" |1930-07-22 |- |14554 D |"Black Mountain Blues" |1930-07-22 |- |14569 D |"Hot Springs Blues" |1927-03-03 |- |14569 D |"Lookin' for My Man Blues" |1927-09-28 |- |14611 D |"In the House Blues" |1931-06-11 |- |14611 D |"Blue Blues" |1931-06-11 |- |14634 D |"Safety Mama" |1931-11-20 |- |14634 D |"Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl" |1931-11-20 |- |14663 D |"Long Old Road" |1931-06-11 |- |14663 D |"Shipwreck Blues" |1931-06-11 |} **78 RPM Singles — Okeh Records** {| class="wikitable" |8945 |"I'm Down in the Dumps" |1933-11-24 |- |8945 |"Do Your Duty" |1933-11-24 |- |8949 |"Take Me for a Buggy Ride" |1933-11-24 |- |8949 |"Gimme a Pigfoot (and a Bottle of Beer)" |1933-11-24 |}