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(There is no suggestion at their entries that Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, or Louis Armstrong were black, but, while no direct mention is made of Bessie Smith's color, the “encyclopedic” information--in a six-line entry--yields the intelligence that “She died from injuries received in a car accident, reportedly after being refused admission to a `Whites only' hospital.”
I was shuffling through a stack of about fifty records, and I came across three Bessie Smiths.
Among Bessie's numbers were Dying Gambler's Blues, Sing Sing Prison Blues , and one I had never heard called Black Mountain Blues , which has the imcomparable lines,
Thus Anthony to Tony, Arthur to Art, Bartholomew to Bart or Bat , Catherine to Kate or Cat or Kitty, Dorothy to Dot (and Dickens's Little Dorrit ), Elizabeth to Betty or Bet (whence Betsy and Bessie ), Martha to Martie or Mattie , Matthew to Matt, Nathaniel to Nat or Nate, Theodore to Ted, Theresa to Tess or Tracy, and Thomas to Tom .
I was, and still am, captivated by “Babies cry for liquor an' the birds sing bass,” and in the arrogance of my youth, I was certain that nobody else on the airfield either knew or cared who Bessie Smith was, nor would any other G.I. be enchanted by basso birds, so I turned thief.