[78-L] CORRECTION RE: Bessie Smith Album

[Michael Biel]

CORRECTION -- My dates for Bessie should ALL have been 1937, as in a Nov
1937 album issue date and Down Beat articles in Nov and Dec 1937.  My
earlier postings of the dates inside the numerical list were correct at
Nov 1937.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [78-L] Bessie Smith Album
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun, January 17, 2010 10:38 pm
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

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 1937. In the November 1937 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
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