This 1920 record is the first commercial recording of blues music by an African-American singer: "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Crazy_Blues" class="extiw" title="w:en:Crazy Blues">Crazy Blues</a>" was composed by Perry Bradford for Mamie Smith in 1920, and sold a million copies in its first year.<br>This is Okeh-4169 (7529 take C)
"Mamie Smith &amp; Her Jazz Hounds", Perry Bradford (1893–1970)
1920
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