Label: Document Records.
Release Date: March 18, 1997.
Recording Time: 73 minutes.
Releases: 1997, 2000, 2005.
Releases: 1997, 2000, 2005.
Recording Date: 1922 - December 17, 1928.
Styles: Classic Female Blues.
A wide variety of obscure singers have their entire and brief recording careers reissued on this CD, the sixth of 14 discs in this fascinating series. Included are two songs apiece by Dorothy Everetts, Madam Hurd Fairfax (who was really a semi-opera singer performing spirituals), Georgie Gorham, and Betty Gray, four songs by Miss Frankie (including two numbers in which she is backed by pianist Eubie Blake), three by Hattie Garland, six from Lillian Goodner (these are among the better selections including two numbers that have background work from cornetist Bubber Miley), three by Ruby Gowdy, and a lone performance by Cry Baby Godfrey. Styles range from vaudevillian to low-down blues, and, in general, the rarely-heard performances hold one's interest. - Review by Scott Yanow
Credits: Eubie Blake - piano; Dr. David Evans - liner notes; Dorothy Everetts - primary artist, vocals; Madam Hurd Fairfax - primary artist, vocals; Bob Fuller - sax (alto); Hattie Garland - primary artist, vocals; Cry Baby Godrey - primary artist; Lillian Goodner - primary artist, vocals; Georgia Gorham - primary artist, vocals; Ruby Gowdy - primary artist, vocals; Porter Grainger - piano; Betty Gray - primary artist, vocals; Louis Hooper - piano; Mabel Horsey - piano; Steve Lewis - piano; Andrades Lindsay - piano; Bubber Miley - cornet; Miss Frankie - primary artist, vocals; Johnny Parth - producer; Bill Pearson - piano; Gerhard Wessely - remastering.
Tracks: 1) Macon Blues - Dorothy Everetts; 2) Fat Mouth Blues - Dorothy Everetts; 3) I'm So Glad (Trouble Don't Last Always) - Madam Hurd Fairfax; 4) Somebody's Knocking at Your Door - Madam Hurd Fairfax; 5) You Can't Guess How Good It Is ('Till You Try It for Yourself) - Miss Frankie; 6) Those Creeping Sneaking Blues - Miss Frankie; 7) I Need a Good Man Bad - Miss Frankie; 8) I Can't Be Worried Long - Miss Frankie; 9) You Used to Be Sugar Blues - Hattie Garland; 10) Blue and by Myself - Hattie Garland; 11) Strange Woman's Dream - Hattie Garland; 12) Sweet Baby, Goodbye! - Cry Baby Godrey; 13) Chicago Blues - Lillian Goodner; 14) No One Can Toddle Like My Cousin Sue - Lillian Goodner; 15) Awful Moanin' Blues - Lillian Goodner; 16) Ramblin' (Till I Find My Lovin' Man) - Lillian Goodner; 17) Four Flushing Papa - Lillian Goodner; 18) Gonna Get Somebody's Daddy (Just Wait and See) - Lillian Goodner; 19) A Little Kind Treatment (Is Exactly What I Need) - Georgia Gorham; 20) Broad Way Blues - Georgia Gorham; 21) Moanful Wailin' Blues - Ruby Gowdy; 22) Florida Flood Blues - Ruby Gowdy; 23) Breath and Britches Blues - Ruby Gowdy; 24) Mean Old Bed Bug Blues - Betty Gray; 25) Loud and Wrong - Betty Gray.