The Recorded Sound Archives (RSA) is a unit of FAU Libraries Special Collections department. We are located in the Wimberly Library on FAU's Boca Raton campus.
Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.
Bessie Smith Empress of the Blues
| Collection(s) | Vintage |
| Catalogue Number | 35672 / 35673 / 35674 / 35675 |
| Matrix Number | 140250 |
| Record Label | Columbia |
| Record Format | 78 RPM - 10" |
| Shelf Number | 682 |
| Number of Tracks | 8 |
| Date Recorded | 1925-01-14 |
| Album Artists | |
| Notes | N/A |
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Recordings restricted by copyright will only play 45 seconds to give you a sense of what that recording originally sounded like.
These recordings can be identified by the words (Research Station) in the music player.
If a song listed below has not been digitized yet, it will NOT show up within the player. If you need us to digitize this song/album, you can make a formal request here.
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| 1 - Cold in Hand Blues
Composer(s) : Gee ; Longshaw
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| 2 - You've Been a Good Ole Wagon
Composer(s) : Smith ; Balcom
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| 3 - Cake Walking Babies
Composer(s) : Smith ; Troy ; Williams
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| 4 - Young Woman's Blues
Composer(s) : Smith
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| 5 - Lost Your Head Blues
Composer(s) : Smith
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| 6 - Baby Doll
Composer(s) : Smith
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| 7 - Empty Bed Blues
Composer(s) : J.C. Johnson
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| 8 - Empty Bed Blues (Part 2)
Composer(s) : J.C. Johnson
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