T. B. Blues

Victoria Spivey

Epidemic Blues

Victoria Spivey performs her famous “T B Blues” on the “I Hear the Blues” television show in 1963.

*”T B Blues,” perhaps the best known of all Spivey’s songs was written while she worked as a songwriter at the St. Louis Music Company. She first recorded the number in 1927.

*”I Hear the Blues” was one of the earliest British TV programmes to showcase American blues artists. It first aired on December 12th 1963.

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