Trixie Smith - Jack, I’m Mellow (1938)

Extraits du film: Marijuana “Weed with roots in hell“ (1936) de Dwain Esper / Hildegarde Stadie Trixie Smith was born in 1895 in Atlanta and move to New York in 1915 where she performed on the traveling African American vaudeville circuit. She made her first recordings for Black Swan in 1922 after winning a prestigious blues singing contest at the Manhattan Casino in New York. Smith didn’t record after 1925 until 1938, when she headed an all-star jazz group including Sidney Bechet and others on one recording session. But she continued to perform in musical revues, on Broadway and in several films. She died in 1943. Lyrics: I’m so high and so dry, I’m sailin’ in the sky, Just smoke some gage, Come around babe, Jack, I’m mellow. I’m so high and so dry, I’m way up in the sky, The world seems light And I’m so right, Jack, I’m mellow. I’m going t