Cactus Corners


Ed

Euphony & Cacophony: Contemporary Classics, Early Music & Opera; Modern Composition; American Roots Music from Old Time to Cajun/Zydeco & Western Swing; Noise & Industrial; field recordings from all over. Direct comments, questions and revelations to cactuscornerskdvs[at]gmail.com.

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Show Description for Saturday 09/26/2009

Please stay tuned at 4:00 pm.  We'll be subbing for Crossing Continents host Gil Medovoy until today's Aggie football coverage begins around 5:30 pm.

The great blues singer Bessie Smith died on this date in 1937 as a result of injuries suffered in an automobile collision near Clarksdale, Mississippi.  She was 43. 

Her 1925 recording of WC Handy's St Louis Blues, featuring Louis Armstrong on cornet, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1993.   

The 20th Century's Greatest Hit

St Louis Blues (1925) (Ram file)

Track Artist Song Album Label    
Bessie Smith St Louis Blues Complete Recordings, Vol 2 Columbia Louis Armstrong, cornet
Cake Walking Babies (From Home)
Send Me to the 'Letctric Chair
Lesley Garrett Ebben? Ne Andro Lontano (from La Wally) V/A Cinema Century Silva Screen Records from the film Diva (1981)
Charles Ives Decoration Day V/A Charles Ives/Lou Harrison First Edition Louisville Orchestra
Thomas Hampson My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free (1759) Song of America Library of Congress/Instant Encore Francis Hopkinson, composer; words by Thomas Parnell
Josef Matthias Hauer No 12 & 13 Atonale Musik (1920-22) 1750 Arch Joseph Kubera, piano