Born on this day – Bessie Smith:

“Empress of the Blues”

Blues singer

April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937

Credits:

Albums and songs:

A Good Man Is Hard to Find; After You've Gone; Aggravatin' Papa; Alexander's Ragtime Band; Any Woman's Blues; Baby Doll; Baby Won't You Please Come Home; Back Water Blues; Beale Street Mama; Bessie Smith Album (1938); Black Mountain Blues; Bleeding Hearted Blues; Blue Blues; Blue Spirit Blues; Boweavil Blues; Bye Bye Blues; Careless Love Blues; Careless Love; Cemetery Blues; Chicago Bound Blues; Cold in Hand Blues; Devil's Gonna Git You; Dirty No Gooder's Blues; Dixie Flyer Blues; Don't Cry Baby; Down Hearted Blues; Downhearted Blues; Dyin' by The Hour; Dying Gambler's Blues; Easy Come Easy Go Blues; Eavesdropper Blues; Empress of the Blues (1940); Empress of the Blues, Vol. II (1947); Empty Bed Blues Pt1; Empty Bed Blues Pt2; Empty Bed Blues; Far Away Blues; Florida Bound Blues; Follow the Deal on Down; Foolish Man Blues; Frankie Blues; Frosty Mornin' Blues; Gin House Blues; Golden Rule Blues; Graveyard Dream Blues; Gulf Coast Blues; Hard Driving Papa; Hard Time Blues; Hateful Blues; Haunted House Blues; He's Gone Blues; He's Got Me Goin'; Homeless Blues; Honey Man Blues; Hot Springs Blues; House Rent Blues; Hustlin' Dan; I Ain't Goin' to Play No Second Fiddle; I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle; I Ain't Got Nobody; I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama; I Want Every Bit of It; I'd Rather be Dead and Buried in my Grave; If You Don't, I Know Who Will; I'm Going Back to My Used to Be; I'm Wild About that Thing; In the House Blues; It Makes My Love Come Down; It Won't Be You; I've Been Mistreated and I Don't Like It; I've Got What It Takes; J.C.Holmes Blues; Jail House Blues; Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town; Keep It to Yourself; Keeps on A Rainin All Time; Lady Luck Blues; Lock and Key Blues; Lonesome Desert Blues; Long Old Road; Lookin' for My Man Blues; Lost Your Head Blues; Louisiana Low Down Blues; Love Me Daddy Blues; Mama's Got the Blues; Me and My Gin; Mean Old Bed Bug Blues; Midnight Blues; Mistreatin' Daddy; Moan Mourners; Money Blues; Moonshine Blues; Mountain Top Blues; Muddy Water; My Kitchen Man; My Man Blues; My Sweetie Went Away; Nashville Women's Blues; Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl; New Gulf Coast Blues; New Orleans Hop Scop Blues; Nobody in Town Can Bake a Jelly Roll Like My Man; Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out; Nobody's Blues but Mine; Oh Daddy Blues; On Revival Day; One and Two Blues; Outside of That; Pickpocket Blues; Pinchbacks, Take 'em Away; Please Help Me Get Him Off My Mind; Poor Man's Blues; Preachin' the Blues; Put It Right Here; Rainy Weather Blues; Reckless Blues; Red Mountain Blues; Rocking Chair Blues; Safety Mama; Salt Water Blues; Sam Jones' Blues; Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair; Shipwreck Blues; Sinful Blues; Sing Sing Prison Blues; Slow and Easy Man; Sobbin' Hearted Blues; Soft Pedal Blues; Sorrowful Blues; Spider Man Blues; Squeeze Me; St Louis Blues; St Louis Gal; Standin' in The Rain Blues; Sweet Mistreater; Tain't Nobody's Bizness if I Do; T'ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness if I Do; Take It Right Back; The Bessie Smith Story, in 4 Volumes (1951); The St. Louis Blues; Them Has Been Blues; Them's Graveyard Words; There'll Be a Hot Time in Old Town Tonight; Thinking Blues; Ticket Agent Easy Your Window Down; Trombone Cholly; Washwoman's Blues; Wasted Life Blues; Weeping Willow Blues; What's the Matter Now?; Whoa, Tillie, Take Your Time; Woman's Trouble Blues; Work House Blues; Worn out Papa Blues; Yellow Dog Blues; Yes Indeed He Do; Yodeling Blues; You Don't Understand; You Ought to be Ashamed; Young Woman's Blues; You've Been a Good Ole Wagon; You've Got to Give Me Some.

Movies and television:

...and Beautiful II (1970); 7T3 (1988); A Good Man (2014); A Huey P. Newton Story (2001); All You Need Is Love (1977); American Masters (1989); Àngel Casas Show (1985); Angel Heart (1987); Arena (1993); Bessie (2015); Bessie Smith (1969); Billie (2019); BioShock Infinite (2013); Black Music in America: From Then Till Now (1971); Blues Masters (1999); Blues Odyssey (2003); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Boardwalk Empire (2012); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Brown Sugar (1986); Carbon Copy (1981); Carnivàle (2003); Cold Case (2005); Die Schauspielerin (1988); Dolemite Is My Name (2019); En kvinnas huvud (1997); Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017); Fast Color (2018); FDR (1982); Great Performances (2003); History Lessons (2000); Idlewild (2006); It's Black Entertainment (2002); Jailhouse Blues (1929); Jazz (2001); Jazz Britannia (2005); Jimmy's Hall (2014); Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004); La route du blues (2003); Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (2016); Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1990); Les Temps Modernes (2016); Lucky Lady (1975); Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2015); Moths (2010); Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America (2023); Nights in Rodanthe (2008); Nun (2017); ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke (2019); Rich and Famous (1981); 'Round Midnight (1986); Sanford and Son (1975); Shining Girls (2022); Sing Sing Thanksgiving (1973); Sophie and the Rising Sun (2016); Soul Power! (2013); Sound of Metal (2019); Sound of Song (2015); St. Louis Blues (1929); Sympathy for the Devil (1972); Tales from the Loop (2020); That's Black Entertainment (1990); The Age of Ballyhoo (1973); The Blues (2003); The Butcher's Wife (1991); The Century: America's Time (1999); The Goldfinch (2019); The Hour (2011); The Ladies Sing the Blues (1989); The Originals (2015); The Shuroo Process (2021); The Subject Is Jazz (1958); The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021); Water for Elephants (2011); Z: The Beginning of Everything (2017).