Clara Smith
Clara Smith (c. 1894 - 2 February 1935) was a popular blues singer.
… Read Full Bio ↴Clara Smith (c. 1894 - 2 February 1935) was a popular blues singer.
Clara Smith was born in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. In her youth she worked on African American theater circuits and tent shows. By the late 1910s she was appearing as a headliner at the Lyric Theater in New Orleans and on the T. O. B. A. circuit. In 1923 she settled in New York City, appearing at cabarets and speakeasies there; that same year she made the first of her commercially successful series of gramophone recordings for Columbia Records, for whom she would continue recording through 1932.
In 1933 she moved to Detroit, Michigan and worked at theaters there until her hospitalization in early 1935 for heart disease, of which she died.
… Read Full Bio ↴Clara Smith (c. 1894 - 2 February 1935) was a popular blues singer.
Clara Smith was born in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. In her youth she worked on African American theater circuits and tent shows. By the late 1910s she was appearing as a headliner at the Lyric Theater in New Orleans and on the T. O. B. A. circuit. In 1923 she settled in New York City, appearing at cabarets and speakeasies there; that same year she made the first of her commercially successful series of gramophone recordings for Columbia Records, for whom she would continue recording through 1932.
In 1933 she moved to Detroit, Michigan and worked at theaters there until her hospitalization in early 1935 for heart disease, of which she died.
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Clara Smith Lyrics
Ain't Got Nobody To Grind My Coffee Once I had a loving daddy, Just as sweet as he…
Don This tongue twister, I'd blab my sister, had herself a…
Don't Advertise Your Man This tongue twister, I'd blab my sister, had herself a…
Dont Advertise Your Man This tongue twister, I'd blab my sister, had herself a…
It's tight like that Listen here, folks. I'm gonna sing a little song, But you…
Kitchen Mechanic Blues Women talk about me and lies on me, calls me…
Nobody Knows The Way I Feel Dis Mornin' Nobody knows the way I feel This morning, this morning Nob…
Percolatin' blues Oh Baby what′s that I hear? Oh baby what's that I…
Shipwrecked Blues Oh, the gale is raging and my ship's without a…
When I Steps Out I'm gonna move ahead so much time's been wasted from all the…
When my sugar walks down the street When my sugar walks down the street All the little birdies…