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▶ Georgia Tom & Tampa Red

It's Tight Like That

Georgia Tom & Tampa Red (1928) → Clara Smith (1929)

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1928 — Georgia Tom (Thomas A. Dorsey) and Tampa Red’s hokum blues hit

Original

Georgia Tom & Tampa Red — 1928

Recorded in Chicago in October 1928 — barrelhouse piano bounce, triplet shuffle, and blue-note secular physicality became inputB for the modern gospel merge.

Now playing

After

Clara Smith — 1929

Covers by Clara Smith and others fueled the late-1920s hokum boom — secular blues idiom before its irreversible flow into church music.

Secular blues shuffle supplied the bodily groove for the modern gospel merge.