Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Song
Listen to the Paramount Records 1927
recording of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
The blues singer recorded the song with
her group Ma Rainey and Her Georgia Band.
The band changed members often. Rainey
wrote the song for the popular dance craze
at the time, the black bottom.
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