Victoria Spivey
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Biography
[Edit]Victoria Spivey was one of the more influential blues women simply because she was around long enough to influence legions of younger women and men who rediscovered blues music during the mid-'60s U.S. blues revival, which had been brought about by British blues bands as well as their American counterparts, like Paul Butterfield and Elvin Bishop. Spivey could do it all: she wrote songs, sang them well, and accompanied herself on piano and organ, and occasionally ukulele.
Spivey began her recording career at age 19 and came from the same rough-and-tumble clubs in Houston and Dallas that produced Sippie Wallace. In 1918, she left home to work as a pianist at the Lincoln Theater in Dallas. In the early '20s, she played in gambling parlors, gay hangouts, and brothels in Galveston and Houston with Blind Lemon Jefferson. Among Spivey's many influences was Ida Cox, herself a sassy blues woman, and taking her cue from Cox, Spivey wrote and recorded tunes like "TB Blues," "Dope Head Blues," and "Organ Grinder Blues." Spivey's other influences included Bobby "Blue" Bland, Sara Martin, and Bessie Smith. Like so many other women blues singers who had their heyday in the '20s and '30s, Spivey wasn't afraid to sing sexually suggestive lyrics, and this turned out to be a blessing nearly 40 years later given the sexual revolution of the '60s and early '70s.
She recorded her first song, "Black Snake Blues," for the OKeh label in 1926, and then worked as a songwriter at a music publishing company in St. Louis in the late '20s. In the '30s, Spivey recorded for the Victor, Vocalion, Decca, and OKeh labels, and moved to New York City, working as a featured performer in a number of African-American musical revues, including the Hellzapoppin' Revue. In the '30s, she recorded and spent time on the road with Louis Armstrong's various bands. By the '50s, Spivey had left show business and sang only in church. But in forming her own Spivey Records label in 1962, she found new life in her old career. Her first release on her own label featured Bob Dylan as an accompanist.
As the folk revival began to take hold in the early '60s, Spivey found herself an in-demand performer on the folk-blues festival circuit. She also performed frequently in nightclubs around New York City. Unlike others from her generation, Spivey continued her recording career until well into the '70s, performing at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival in 1973 with Roosevelt Sykes. Throughout the '60s and '70s, she had an influence on musicians as varied as Dylan, Sparky Rucker, Ralph Rush, Carrie Smith, Edith Johnson, and Bonnie Raitt.
Spivey's many albums for Spivey and other labels include the excellent Songs We Taught Your Mother (1962), which also includes contributions from Alberta Hunter and Lucille Hegamin, Idle Hours (1961), The Queen and Her Knights (1965), and The Victoria Spivey Recorded Legacy of the Blues (1970). In 1970, Spivey was awarded a BMI Commendation of Excellence from the music publishing organization for her long and outstanding contributions to many worlds of music. After entering Beekman Downtown Hospital with an internal hemorrhage, she died a short while later in 1976. Victoria Spivey is buried in Hempstead, New York.
Title: Victoria Spivey and the Easy Rider Jazz Band
Artist: Victoria Spivey, The Easy Rider Jazz Band
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Acoustic
Title: Idle Hours
Artist: Victoria Spivey, Lonnie Johnson
Title: Songs We Taught Your Mother
Artist: Alberta Hunter, Victoria Spivey, Lucille Hegamin
Genre: Blues
Collections
Title: Blues Sisters
Genre: Blues
Title: Top 100 Classics - The Very Best of the 1920's, Vol. 3
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blues, Blues Christmas (1925-1955)
Genre: Blues
Title: Essential Christmas Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: 101 - The Best of Vintage Blues
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Girls Sing the Christmas Classics
Genre: Jazz
Title: 30 Essential American Folk Blues Classics
Genre: Blues, Songwriter/Lyricist, Acoustic
Title: Call of Duty - Songs of Civil & World Wars
Genre: Jazz
Title: Songs of the Great Depression
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Very Best of American Folk Blues Festival '63 - '85
Genre: Blues
Title: American Folk Blues Festival '63
Genre: Blues, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Death Might Be Your Santa Claus
Genre: Blues
Title: Women Blues Singers (1928-1969)
Genre: Blues
Title: 100 Christmas Blues - Songs to Get You Through the Cold
Genre: Blues
Title: The American Folk Blues Festival
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues, Blues Christmas, Vol. 3
Genre:
Title: 100 Christmas Blues - Songs to Get You Through the Cold
Genre: Blues
Title: 100 Songs Of Misery, Grief & Destruction
Genre: Pop
Title: Retro Jazz Xmas
Genre:
Title: Alcohol Coke & Gin
Title: The History of Blues: Two
Genre: Blues
Title: Women In Blues
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Best of Jazz Crusade
Genre: Jazz
Title: Harlem Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Epic Music of the 1920's
Genre: Jazz
Title: Folk Blues, Vol. 3
Genre: Pop
Title: Risque Blues, Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes
Genre: Blues
Title: The Coolest Christmas Party Ever
Genre:
Title: Blues, Boogie & Rhythm Christmas
Genre:
Title: Raunchy Business - Hot Nuts & Lollypops
Genre: Blues
Title: Vintage Novelty Songs
Genre: Pop
Title: Songs of American History
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Sentimental Journey - Early Big Band and Other Hits Vol4
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Definitive Blues Collection, Vol. 12
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Naughty Tracks of Early Blues, Vol. 1 (Remastered)
Genre: Blues
Title: Ladies Sing The Blues Vol 2
Genre: Blues
Title: Women With Attitude
Genre: Jazz, Alternative
Title: Dirty Blues Licks
Genre: Blues
Title: Dyin' by the Hour
Genre: Jazz
Title: Risque Blues, Vol. 3
Genre: Blues
Title: I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus
Genre:
Title: New York Blues 30's (Doxy Collection)
Genre: Blues
Title: Divas Sing the Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Reefer Madness
Genre:
Title: Marijuana Madness: The Best Of Reefer Songs 1927 - 1947
Genre: Pop
Title: Classic Piano Blues from Smithsonian Folkways
Genre: Blues
Title: Muddy Waters - Otis Spann Blues Festival
Genre: Blues
Title: New York Blues (Doxy Collection, Remastered)
Genre: Blues
Title: Dead Drunk Blues (Blues Roots 25 Tracks)
Genre: Blues
Title: Ladies Sing the Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Early Jazz & Blues Ladies
Genre: World Music
Title: Filthy Blues - 69 Licks
Genre: Blues
Title: Whorehouse Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: A Vegetarian's Thanksgiving Playlist
Genre:
Featuring albums
Title: Woody Allen - Music from His Movies, Vol. 5
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Cocaine Blues: Vintage Songs About Cocaine & Heroin
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Acoustic
Title: Gimme Dat Harp Boy - Roots of The Captain
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Blues, Gospel, Rock, Christian Rock, Country, Christian Country Music, Acoustic
Title: I Ain't a Gamblin' Woman, I Got Such-A Rowdy Ways
Artist: Various Artists
Title: Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang Columbia and Okeh Sessions, Vol 2
Artist: Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang
Genre: Jazz