[78-L] Bessie Smith Album

[David Lennick]

Michael Biel wrote:
> This didn't get posted a few days ago because it wasn't in plain text
> format.  So this is some of the info I didn't realize until now had not
> been sent to you.  
> 
> According to John Hammond in Down Beat, the Bessie Smith album was
> issued mid-November 1938.  In the November 1938 issue he had an article
> discussing her death in Sept. (conjectering that she might have bled to
> death because of being turned away from a white's hospital, a theory
> that was thoroughly rejected in a front page story the next month), 


Obviously nobody saw that front page story because it became legend, including 
an Edward Albee play. By the way, Wonkypackia says the Downbeat article is 
November 1937.

dl