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Georgia White
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Georgia White was a blues singer, most prolific in the 1930s and 1940s.
Little is known of her early life, but it has been suggested that she was born in Sandersville, Georgia. By the late 1920s she was singing in clubs in Chicago. She made her first recording, "When You're Smiling, the Whole World Smiles With You," with Jimmie Noone's orchestra in 1930. She returned to the studio in 1935, and over the next six years recorded over 100 tracks for Decca Records, usually accompanied by the pianist Richard M. Jones and also, in the late 1930s, by the guitarist Lonnie Johnson.
Georgia White: I'll Keep Sittin' On It
by Ian Patterson
The dirty blues? Georgia White had 'em. “If I can't sell it, I'll keep sittin' on it, before I give it away," the blues singer sang in 1937. The full lyrics paint a picture of a furniture shop, a chair and a would-be buyer, but the innuendo is thinly disguised. They don't write blues tunes like ...
Sex & Drugs & Jazz & Jive: Top Ten Stash Records Albums
by Chris May
With all the transgressive flair you would expect of bohemian New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, Bernie Brightman's Stash Records made its name with a hugely entertaining series of sex and drugs-themed compilations of swing-era recordings. The first was Reefer Songs in 1976. But Brightman's legacy extends much further. There was a finite amount ...
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