Crazy Blues
Harris, Chuck Crazy Blues: A NovelOne hundred years ago White singer Sophie Tucker came down with a cold. Unable to perform she begged out of an upcoming recording date. Wary of scrapping the session, OKeh Records executives reluctantly agreed to let Mamie Smith, a virtually unknown Negro singer, fill in.That record, Crazy Blues, forever altered the trajectory of American popular music.Mamie and her band were accidental pioneers, talented musicians who had ...