Cornshucks

[jazzy_dave]

BBC Radio 4 had a great  music documentary on today about the forgotten blues singer Little Miss Cornshucks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042zsxx

. She was recorded by Atlantic Records' Ahmet Ertegun just for himself in 1943 years before he had a record label because he liked her voice so much. She had a little girl act, with her hair tied with a ribbon, an image that she carried over from her vaudeville days. She recorded on Chicago's Sunbeam label in 1947 and had been a major draw at the city's Club De Lisa by the time she was 18 in 1941. She also opened the Rhumboogie and also recorded on Miltone, Aladdin, Coral and Chess


Here she is doing the original of Try A Little Tenderness.

Little Miss Cornshucks from a 1951 Coral recording

Here is a version of So Long

And finally a good slab of blues called 'Cause I  Lost My Helping Hand.

Enjoy.

Comments

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

:D

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Really nice.
Great voice, but it doesn't really seem to match up with the little girl in hair ribbons picture. lol...
Hugs, Jon

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

More to do with her stature than the voice. Great voice though.

[itsjustc.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed these. I've not come across her before. She has a really nice voice.