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Bessie_Smith_-_Downhearted_Blues_(1923).ogg ‎(Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 3 min 25 s, 195 kbps, file size: 4.76 MB)

Summary

Description
English: Bessie Smith's historically significant 1923 cover of "Downhearted Blues." Recorded for Columbia Records.
Date
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.

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Recording
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The author died in 1937, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer.

Under the Classics Protection and Access Act ( 17 U.S.C. § 1401), this sound recording is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1924.

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Musical composition
Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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