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| Big Maybelle | |
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| Background data | |
| Birth proper name | Mabel Louise Smith |
| Born | (1924-05-01)May 1, 1924 Jackson, Tennessee, U.Southward. |
| Died | January 23, 1972(1972-01-23) (aged 47) Cleveland, Ohio, U.South. |
| Genres | R&B, blues, gospel |
| Occupation(s) | Vocalist |
| Years active | 1936–1972 |
| Labels | King Records, Okeh, Savoy, Epic, Brunswick, Scepter, Chess, Port, Rojac, Encore |
Mabel Louise Smith (May 1, 1924 – January 23, 1972),[ane] known professionally as Large Maybelle, was an American R&B vocalist. Her 1956 hitting single "Candy" received the Grammy Hall of Fame Accolade in 1999.[2]
Childhood and musical background [edit]
Built-in in Jackson, Tennessee, on May one, 1924, Large Maybelle sang gospel as a child; past her teens, she had switched to rhythm and blues. She began her professional career with Dave Clark'due south Memphis Band in 1936, and too toured with the all-female International Sweethearts of Rhythm.[iii] She and then joined Christine Chatman's Orchestra, and made her first recordings with Chatman in 1944, before recording with the Tiny Bradshaw'south Orchestra from 1947 to 1950.[4]
Her debut solo recordings, recorded as Mabel Smith, were for Rex Records in 1947.[five]
Okeh Records [edit]
In 1952, she was signed past Okeh Records, whose record producer Fred Mendelsohn gave her the stage proper name 'Big Maybelle' because of her loud yet well-toned vox.[half dozen] Her beginning recording for Okeh, "Gabbin' Blues", was a number iii striking on the Billboard R&B chart, and was followed up by both "Way Back Home" and "My Country Human" in 1953.[v]
In 1955, she recorded the vocal "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", produced by up-and-coming producer Quincy Jones,[7] a full two years before rockabilly and then rock and roll vocalist Jerry Lee Lewis's version. Lewis credited Smith's version as being the inspiration to make his version much more louder, raunchy and raucous, with a driving trounce and a spoken section with a come up-on that was considered very risque for the fourth dimension.
Savoy Records [edit]
More hits followed throughout the 1950s, specially after signing with Savoy Records later in 1955, including "Processed" (1956), one of her biggest sellers.[5]
During this time, she also appeared on stage at the Apollo Theater in New York Urban center in 1957, and at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival she sang "All Night Long/I Own't Mad at You lot", as seen in Bert Stern'southward film of the festival, Jazz on a Summer'south Twenty-four hours,[five] in which Mahalia Jackson and Dinah Washington also performed.[8]
Career decline [edit]
After 1959, she recorded for a variety of labels, merely the hits largely stale upward. She continued to perform into the early on 1960s. Her last hit single was in 1967, a cover of "96 Tears" by Question Mark & the Mysterians.[9] Past the 1960s, Maybelle's drug use began detrimentally impacting her career.[3] [10]
Death [edit]
Smith died of a diabetic blackout on January 23, 1972, in Cleveland, Ohio.[1] She had been frequently ill for the previous 18 months.[xi] She was survived by her simply child, Barbara Smith, and 5 grandchildren.[1]
Her final album, Last of Big Maybelle, was released posthumously in 1973.
Legacy [edit]
The album The Okeh Sessions, released on the Epic characterization, won the 1983 W.C. Handy Award for "Vintage or Reissue Album of the Year (U.S.)."[12] In 2011, she was inducted to the Blues Hall of Fame.[13]
Her version of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" was included in the soundtrack for Fallout 4 as role of the Diamond Metropolis Radio playlist.
Discography [edit]
Albums [edit]
| Year | Title | Genre | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | The Consummate King, OKeh & Savoy Releases 1947-61 | R&B | Acrobat [United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland] [2CD] |
| 2007 | I've Got a Feelin' (OKeh & Savoy Recordings 1952-56) | R&B | Rev-Ola Bandstand |
| 2004 | The Chronological Big Maybelle 1944-1953 | R&B | Classics 'Blues & Rhythm' |
| 2001 | Maybelle's Blues | R&B | Sony Music Special Products |
| 2001 | Candy! (Savoy Blues Legends) | R&B | Savoy Jazz [2CD] |
| 2001 | Half Heaven, Half Heartache (The Brunswick Recordings) | R&B | Westside [UK] |
| 1998 | The Very Best of Big Maybelle "That's All" | R&B | Collectables |
| 1995 | Blues, Candy and Big Maybelle | R&B | Savoy Jazz |
| 1994 | Maybelle Sings the Dejection | R&B | Charly [Uk] |
| 1994 | The Consummate OKeh Sessions 1952-55 | R&B | Epic/Legacy EK-53417 |
| 1983 | The OKeh Sessions | R&B | Ballsy EG-38456 [2LP] |
| 1973 | The Last of Big Maybelle | R&B | Paramount PAS-1011 |
| 1969 | Saga of the Good Life and Hard Times | R&B | Rojac 123 |
| 1968 | The Gospel Soul of Large Maybelle | Gospel | Brunswick BL-754142 |
| 1968 | "Gabbin' Blues" and Other Big Hits | R&B | Encore EE-22012 |
| 1967 | Got a Make New Bag | R&B | Rojac 122 |
| 1965 | The Soul of Large Maybelle | R&B | Scepter 522 |
| 1962 | What More Can a Adult female Do? | R&B | Brunswick BL-754107 |
| 1959 | The Blues: Mamie Webster Sings West.C.Handy | R&B | Cub (MGM) 8002 |
| 1958 | Blues, Candy and Big Maybelle | R&B | Savoy MG-14011 |
| 1958 | Big Maybelle Sings | R&B | Savoy MG-14005 |
| 1954 | Big Maybelle | R&B | Ballsy EG-7071 |
Singles [edit]
| Year | Unmarried (A-side, B-side) Both tracks from same album except where indicated | Chart Positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Popular[xiv] | US R&B[15] | |||
| 1948 | "Sad and Disappointed Jill" b/w "Bad Dream Blues" | - | - | Non-album tracks |
| "Indian Giver" b/w "Too Tight Mama" | - | - | ||
| The in a higher place two records every bit shown as by Mabel Smith | ||||
| 1953 | "Gabbin' Blues" b/w "Rain Down Rain" | - | 3 | "Gabbin' Blues" and Other Big Hits |
| "Way Dorsum Home" b/w "Just Desire Your Love" | - | 10 | ||
| "Ship for Me" b/w "Jinny Mule" (from "Gabbin' Blues" and Other Big Hits) | - | - | Not-album rail | |
| "My Country Man" b/w "Maybelle'south Blues" | - | five | "Gabbin' Blues" and Other Big Hits | |
| 1954 | "You lot'll Never Know" b/w "I've Got a Feelin'" | - | - | |
| "I'm Getting 'Long Alright" b/w "My Big Mistake" | - | - | ||
| 1955 | "Don't Leave Poor Me" b/w "Ain't No Use" (Non-album rail) | - | - | |
| "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" b/w "One Monkey Don't Stop No Prove" (from "Gabbin' Dejection" and Other Big Hits) | - | - | Not-album tracks | |
| 1956 | "Such a Cutie" b/w "The Other Night" | - | - | |
| "Candy" b/w "That's a Pretty Good Love" | - | 11 | Blues, Candy & Large Maybelle | |
| "Mean to Me" b/westward "Tell Me Who" | - | - | ||
| "New Kind of Mambo" b/west "Gabbin' Blues" (from "Gabbin' Blues" and Other Big Hits) | - | - | Not-anthology tracks | |
| 1957 | "I Don't Want to Cry" b/westward "All of Me" | - | - | Big Maybelle Sings |
| "Stone House" b/west "Jim" | - | - | ||
| "Silent Nighttime" b/west "White Christmas" | - | - | Non-anthology tracks | |
| "So Long" b/w "Ring Dang Dilly" | - | - | Blues, Candy & Big Maybelle | |
| 1958 | "Blues, Early on Blues"—Function 1 b/w Part 2 | - | - | |
| 1959 | "Baby Won't You Please Come Abode" b/w "Say Information technology Isn't Then" | - | - | Big Maybelle Sings |
| "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" b/w "Pitiful" (from Blues, Candy & Large Maybelle) | - | - | Non-album tracks | |
| "I Understand" b/w "Some of These Days" | - | - | ||
| 1960 | "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" b/west "Until the Real Affair Comes Along" | - | - | |
| 1961 | "Going Dwelling house Babe" b/w "I Own't Got Nobody" | - | - | |
| 1962 | "Candy" b/w "Cry" | - | - | What More than Can a Adult female Do |
| 1963 | "Common cold Common cold Heart" b/due west "Why Was I Born" (from What More than Tin can a Woman Exercise) | - | - | The Last of Big Maybelle |
| "How Deep Is the Body of water" b/west "Everybody's Got a Dwelling house But Me" | - | - | What More Can a Woman Do | |
| 1964 | "Oh Lord, What Are You Doing to Me" b/w "Same Erstwhile Story" | - | - | The Soul of Big Maybelle |
| "My Mother's Eyes" b/w "Careless Dearest" | - | - | Saga of the Practiced Life & Difficult Times | |
| "I Don't Desire to Cry" b/west "Yesterday's Kisses" | - | - | Non-album tracks | |
| 1965 | "Let Me Go" b/w "No Better for Y'all" (from The Last of Big Maybelle) | - | - | |
| 1966 | "Information technology's a Man's Human's Earth" b/west "Maybelle Sings the Dejection" (from Saga of the Skilful Life and Hard Times) | - | - | |
| "Don't Pass Me Past" b/w "Information technology's Been Raining" (from Saga of the Skilful Life & Hard Times) | - | 27 | ||
| 1967 | "96 Tears" b/w "That's Life" | 96 | 23 | Got a Brand New Purse |
| "Turn the World Around the Other Fashion" b/due west "I Can't Await Any Longer" (Non-anthology runway) | - | - | ||
| "Mama (He Treats Your Daughter Mean)" b/w "Go along That Human" | - | - | Not-album tracks | |
| 1968 | "Quittin' Time" b/w "I Can't Wait Any Longer" | - | - | |
| "Heaven Volition Welcome You, Dr. King" b/due west "Eleanor Rigby" (from Got a Make New Bag) | - | - | ||
| "Exercise Lord" b/w "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" | - | - | The Gospel Soul of Big Maybelle | |
| 1969 | "Sometime Love Never Dies" b/w "How It Lies" | - | - | Saga of the Expert Life & Hard Times |
| 1973 | "Blame It on Your Love" b/w "See See Passenger" | - | - | The Last of Big Maybelle |
Run into also [edit]
- List of R&B musicians
- List of E Coast blues musicians
- List of Jump blues musicians
- New York blues
References [edit]
- ^ a b c Bill Dahl. "Big Maybelle | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-08-25 .
- ^ "GRAMMY Hall Of Fame". GRAMMY.org. Archived from the original on July seven, 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-25 .
- ^ a b Russell, Tony (1997). The Dejection - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray. Dubai: Carlton Books Limited. p. 92. ISBN1-85868-255-X.
- ^ Santelli, Robert. The Big Book of Blues, Penguin Books, p. xl (2001) - ISBN 0-fourteen-100145-3
- ^ a b c d Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Curtailed ed.). Virgin Books. p. 131. ISBN1-85227-745-9.
- ^ Nigel Williamson, The Crude Guide To The Blues (2007) - ISBN 1-84353-519-Ten
- ^ "Maybelle". Home.earthlink.net. Archived from the original on 2010-04-05. Retrieved 2015-08-25 .
- ^ "Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2015-08-25 .
- ^ Larkin, Colin. The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Guinness Publishing, page 243, (1992) - ISBN 0-85112-939-0
- ^ Evans, David (2005). The NPR curious listener'due south guide to blues. New York : Berkley Pub. Group. pp. 102–103. ISBN978-0-399-53072-2.
- ^ "Big MAYBELLE SMITH, BLUES Vocaliser, Dead". The New York Times. 1972-01-25. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-12-02 .
- ^ [1] Archived Feb 16, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ [2] Archived August 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2003). Top Pop Singles 1955-2002 (1st ed.). Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 57. ISBN0-89820-155-1.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Peak R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-1995. Tape Research. p. 31.
External links [edit]
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- Big Maybelle at Find a Grave
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Maybelle