Viola Bartlette

Viola Bartlette was an American blues singer^[1] and actress,^[2] who recorded on Black Swan Records and Paramount Records. She was from Baltimore.^[3] Bartlette recorded under the pseudonym Ida Lewis for Silvertone Records.^[4]

She often was a backup singer for Lovie Austin^[5] and accompanied Lovie Austin's Blue Serenaders band and Blythe's Sinful Five on records.^[6] Johnny Dodds accompanied Bartlette on recordings made in the 1920s. Clarinetist Jimmy O'Bryant backed her on session recordings during 1923 to 1926. She also recorded with Kid Ory.^[1]

Discography

"Tennessee Blues" (1925)^[7]
"Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night" (1925) by Lovie Austin's Blue Serenaders^[6]^[8]
"Walk Easy 'Cause My Papa's Here" (1926), by Viola Bartlette with Cobb's Paramount Syncopators, Paramount^[9]
"Shake That Thing" (1926) written by Papa Charlie Jackson^[8]^[10]
"Anna Mina Forty And St. Louis Shorty" (1926) by Jimmy Blythe / Blythe's Sinful Five^[6]
"Quit Knocking on My Door" (1926) by Blythe's Sinful Five^[6]
"Sunday Morning Blues" (1926)^[9]
"You Don't Mean Me No Good" (1926)^[9]
"Out Bound Train Blues" (1926)^[9]
"You Can Never Tell When Your Perfectly Good Man Will Do" (1926) by Viola Bartlette with Punch Miller^[11]

^ ^a ^b Yanow, Scott (2001). Classic Jazz. Backbeat Books. pp. 68, 176. ISBN 978-0-87930-659-5. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
^ "Local Girl Recording". Baltimore Afro-American. September 11, 1926. p. 5. ProQuest 530641570. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
^ Currin, Grayson (November 22, 2013). "Various Artists: The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917-1932)". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
^ Sutton, Allan (1993). A Guide to pseudonyms on American records, 1892-1942. Greenwood Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-313-29060-2. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
^ The Harlem Renaissance: a historical dictionary for the era. Greenwood Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-313-23232-9. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Dixon, Robert M. W. (1982). Blues & gospel records, 1902-1943. Storyville Publications. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-902391-03-1. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
^ Eagle, Bob (2004). "Directory of African-Appalachian Musicians". Black Music Research Journal. 24 (1): 50. doi:10.2307/4145499. ISSN 0276-3605. JSTOR 4145499. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Stomp Off Records Index" (PDF). Stompoff.dickbaker.org. Retrieved June 15, 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Illustrated Blind Blake discography". Wirz.de. Retrieved June 15, 2023.
^ Nick Tosches (1 August 2009). Where Dead Voices Gather. Little, Brown. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-316-07714-9.
^ "Illustrated Herwin Records discography". Wirz.de. Retrieved June 15, 2023.

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