(Original) Bessie Brown - Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

Bessie Brown (Cleveland, Ohio 1895 - 1955), also known as "The Original" Bessie Brown, like so many other female classic Blues singers of the 1920s. had a background in vaudeville and musical theatre. Throughout the 1920s she appeared in musical revues such as the "Moonshine Revue", "The Whirl Of Joy" and "Dark-Town Frolics". Brown also sang in cabarets on the East coast. Her recording career lasted from 1925 to 1928. Some of "The Original" Bessie Brown's recordings were issued under pseudonyms Caroline Lee, Mandy Lee and Sadie Green, names also used for a similar sounding white vocalist, Vaughn de Leath. One record by Bessie Brown was even issued as being by Rosa Henderson! She left show business in 1932 and had three children. Brown died of a heart attack in 1955.