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On This Day – Bessie Dies After Being Turned Away from Hospital.
On this day in 1937 Bessie Smith, the great blues singer was in a car that was involved in an accident. She had her left arm almost torn off in the accident. After a delay of 25 minutes (and another accident during which a car plowed in to the attending doctor’s car) Bessie was taken […]
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Tagged as: bessie smith, blues music, john hammond, On This Day, rock and blues
John Henry Hammond
John Hammond died on this day in 1987. JH was one of those people who were enormously influencial but often overlooked. Often given credit where it was not deserved but denied the credit that was due to him. John Hammond was a record producer rather than a talent scout. Back in the early ’30s he […]
Posted in Departures
Tagged as: billie holiday, blues music, deaths, john hammond, On This Day, robert johnson