Music Tuesday #100: 100 year old music

This is a history lesson.  Mamie Smith recorded this song in August 1920, it is the first female vocal blues recording by an African-American artist. It went to nbr 3 in the US Charts.  More than a million copies were sold. This is the music which resulted in everything I have shown in all 100 previous Music Tuesdays. As often happens with pioneers, she died penniless in 1946 in New York and was buried in an unmarked grave.  It took until 2013 before a monument was erected at the grave site.  Do go and visit if you are close to Staten Island and acknowledge all the fantastic entertainment and arts she brought to the world.  Who knows how many people took up a music instrument because of this milestone in history?

Mamie Smith - Crazy Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaz4Ziw_CfQ

Moving pictures of Mamie Smith with sound from 1929

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbkdA0GXDBc

Bonus: the godmother of rock'n'roll documentary

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKK_EQ4pj9A