Downhearted Blues

About Downhearted Blues

"Downhearted Blues" is a blues song composed by American jazz singer Alberta Hunter and musician Lovie Austin. The first line sets the theme for the song: "Gee but it's hard to love someone when that someone don't love you". Hunter sang it during her engagement at the Dreamland Cafe, in Chicago, where she performed with Joe "King" Oliver's band. She made a recording of the song in 1922. Blues singer Bessie Smith recorded the song with piano accompaniment by Clarence Williams on February 16, 1923. It was released as her first single (with "Gulf Coast Blues" on the B-side); 780,000 copies were sold in the first six months, and eventually 2 million copies were sold. The National Recording Preservation Board included Smith's recording in the inaugural National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2002. The board recognizes songs that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." In 2001, the Recording Industry Association of America, with the National Endowment for the Arts, included it at number 315 in the list of the Top 365 "Songs of the Century". The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame identified it as one of the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock". In 2006, Smith's recording received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award."Downhearted Blues" has been recorded by numerous other musicians, including Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra, Eva Taylor, Lucille Hegamin, Edna Hicks, Hazel Meyers, Mildred Bailey & Her Alley Cats, Cab Calloway & His Orchestra, Teddy Wilson, Kid Ory, Juanita Hall, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (sung by Wills, a longtime Bessie Smith fan), Son House, and Teresa Brewer. more »

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Gee, but it's hard to love someone when that someone don't love you 
I'm so disgusted, heartbroken, too 
I've got those down hearted blues 
Once I was crazy 'bout a man 
He mistreated me all the time 
The next man I get he's got to promise to be mine, all mine 
If I could only find the man oh how happy I would be 
To the good Lord ev'ry night I pray 
Please send my man back to me 
I've almost worried myself to death wond'ring why he went away 
But just wait and see he's gonna want me back some sweet day 
Trouble, trouble, I've had it all my days 
Trouble, trouble, I've had it all my days 
It seems that trouble's going to follow me to my grave 
Got the world in a jug, the stopper's in my hand 
Got the world in a jug 
The stopper's in my hand 
Going to hold it, baby, till you come under my command 
Say, I ain't never loved but three men in my life 
No, I ain't never loved but three men in my life 
'T'was my father, brother and the man who wrecked my life 
'Cause he mistreated me and he drove me from his door 
Yeah, he mistreated me and he drove me from his door 
But the good book says you'll reap just what you sow 
Oh, it may be a week and it may be a month or two 
Yes, it may be a week and it may be a month or two 
But the day you quit me honey, it's coming home to you 
Oh, I walked the floor and I wrung my hands and cried 
Yes, I walked the floor and I wrung my hands and cried 
Had the down hearted blues and couldn't be satisfied

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Mildred Bailey

Mildred Rinker Bailey (February 27, 1907 – December 12, 1951) was a popular and influential American jazz singer during the 1930s, known as "The Queen of Swing", "The Rockin' Chair Lady" and "Mrs. Swing". Some of her best known hits are "It's So Peaceful in the Country", "Trust In Me", "Where Are You", "I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart", "Small Fry", "Please Be Kind", "Darn That Dream", "Rockin' Chair", "Blame It On My Last Affair", and "Says My Heart". more »

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