1920

Showing 2 songs from 1920

Blues

Crazy Blues

Mamie Smith

1920

Seventy-five thousand copies in two months, Perry Bradford's tune, and Smith's voice opening the record industry to Black audiences.

★ 6.8

♪SwaneeAl Jolson

Pop

Swanee

Al Jolson

1920

Gershwin played it at a party, Jolson carried it into Sinbad, and it became Gershwin's biggest-selling song.

★ 4.2