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Summary

Description	Bessie Smith's historically significant 1923 cover of "Downhearted Blues." Recorded for Columbia Records.
Date	16 February 1923
Source	78 RPM disc
Author	Music composed by Alberta Hunter and Lovie Austin.
Permission (Reusing this file)	This recording of Down Hearted Blues by Bessie Smith (1894–1937) appears to have been recorded and published in 1923 in the US by Columbia Records, so copyright has expired for the sound recording. The US copyright to the 1922 musical composition by Love Austin (1887–1972) and Alberta Hunter (1895–1984) has also expired.

Licensing

Recording

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Musical composition

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