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Artist: Ethel Ridley Label:   Columbia Country: USA Catalogue: A3965 Date: Oct 1923 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: $36 » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Ethel Ridley	Alabama Bound Blues	Perry Bradford	Rate
B	Ethel Ridley	I Don't Let No One Man Worry Me	Perry Bradford	Rate

Notes

Comedienne
Leroy Tibbs At The Piano

A side (mx. 81096-3) recorded New York, NY, June 23, 1923.
B side (mx. 81097-2) recorded New York, NY, June 23, 1923.
(DAHR)

Mentioned (by Perry Bradford) in the Chicago Defender, Aug. 18, 1923, page 8.



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Number: 2072040  THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: xiphophilos Description: Columbia A3965 A side label

Number: 2071733  Uploaded By: dunk78 Edited By: Jace59 Description: Columbia A3965 B side label

Number: 2071736  HIDDEN Uploaded By: dunk78 Edited By: Jace59 Description: Columbia A3965 A side label

Comments and Reviews

xiphophilos 27th Nov 2019		Thanks for pointing this out. Bessie Smith clearly had cross-over appeal. I didn't realize that was true of Clara Smith as well.
fixbutte 27th Nov 2019		Not quite. There is a Clara Smith record on the linked list, and there were several Columbia adverts for Bessie Smith records in TMW in 1923, see e.g. A3936 where you can also find a small article with the headline, "Bessie Smith's Records Popular".
xiphophilos 26th Nov 2019		By the way, Columbia left this out of its listings in The Talking Machine World. I find it interesting that they released this music in their regular popular series, but then did not bother to list it in the main stream trade publication. Apparently, blues sung by an African American performer was only interesting to a niche audience of other African Americans back in 1923. The Talking Machine World, October 15, 1923, page 197: Advance Record Bulletins for November, 1923 (actually released in late October 1923).
dunk78 9th Nov 2019		[Copied from our own fixbutte's wonderful discussion at https://rateyourmusic.com/list/fixbutte/mamas-got-the-blues-and-papa-too-bessie-smith-and-columbias-race-records-series/]: Ethel Ridley (vocal) cut the outstanding "Alabama Bound Blues" in New York on 23 June 1923, accompanied by Leroy Tibbs on the piano. Tibbs' provides slow piano accompaniment to Ethel's very fine vocal as she expresses her disdain for her cheating man as she has already found a replacement lover waiting for her in Alabama:- Get away from my window, don't knock at my door [twice] Got another daddy, don't want you no more I can't use you, 'cause you ain't no good [twice] Got another daddy waiting to tap my wood I don't want you, here's my right hand [twice] You go to your woman, I'll go back to my man Number 7 in the station, number 11 in the yard [twice] Gonna leave this town if I have to ride the rod I'm leavin' town to wear you off my mind I've been mistreated and I don't mind dyin' I'll buy me a ticket long as my right arm Right to where you think I'm dead and gone I'm Alabama bound "I Don't Let One Man Worry Me", which was cut on the same day and in the same location, also has slow piano accompaniment and a wordless vocal section for most of the first minute, as Ethel declares she always keeps two or three men on her mind so she doesn't have to worry about any one man giving her grief. A good performance but nowhere near as good as the A-side.

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