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Thread #77162   Message #1373142
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
06-Jan-05 - 04:38 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Shipwreck Blues (Bessie Smith)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Shipwreck Blues-Bessie Smith
Red Hot Jazz has the 1931 Columbia Bessie Smith recording, which may be downloaded (along with steam-dozen others).
Bessie Smith
Thanks for posting the words.

AllMusic gives Bessie Smith as composer.