"Actor: Mamie Smith"

• Sarah Vaughan - the Swing Era | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £20.26   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Track Include:Sarah Vaughan: 01 You're Mine You!02 The Nearness Of You 03 You're Not The Kind04 These Things I Offer05 PerdidoLena Horne:06 Boogie Woogie Dream07 The Man I LoveBessie Smith:08 Saint Louis BluesMamie Smith:09 Paradise In HarlemIda Cox:10 Kentucky Man Blues11 Fore Day CreepEthel Waters With Count Basie12 QuicksandThe International Sweethearts of Rhythm13 She's Crazy wit the Heat14 That Man of Mine15 'Jump Children16 Unidentified Title17 How About That Jive18 I Left My Man19 Unidentified Title20 Don't Get it Twisted21 Just the Thing

• The Blues | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This DVD presents a selection of performances filmed between 1929 and 1962. The most legendary of these films is St. Louis Blues starring the Empress of the Blues - Bessie Smith. Two other great female singers from the 1920's also appear on this DVD - Ida Cox and Mamie Smith. Both were enormously successful as recording and performing artists.One rather curious item is the Big Bill Broonzy field recordings. Shot with one camera, often times not even capturing a complete number, the technical limitations can't disguise the power of his singing and playing.The program concludes with a great short film featuring the magnificent blues harmonica player Sonny Boy Williamson.This program provides us with a vivid picture of the various styles of the blues over the years and gives us precious glimpses of some of it's finest practitioners.