Bessie
Proper noun
Meaning
A town in Oklahoma.
A diminutive of Elizabeth, also used as a formal female given name.
(cryptozoology) Bessie, a lake monster supposed to exist in Lake Erie in the United States.
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It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead.
Bessie Braddock: Winston, you are drunk, and what's more you are disgustingly drunk. Churchill: Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and, what's more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.
I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
Albertson, Bessie, pp. 2–5, 277. Unmarked grave Smith's grave was unmarked until a tombstone was erected on August 7, 1970, paid for by the singer Janis Joplin and Juanita Green, who as a child had done housework for Smith.
Bessie Smith, The Complete Recordings Vol. 2. Columbia COL 468767 2. the sheer power of her voice was even more evident.
Bessie Smith 's January 14, 1925, Columbia Records recording of " Saint Louis Blues " with Louis Armstrong is considered by many to be one of the finest recordings of the 1920s.