Bertha Hill was born in 1900 in a family of 16 children in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1915 they moved to New York and the next year she began her career as a dancer in Harlem; later she joined Ma Rainey's vaudeville shows. In 1925 she moved to Chicago where she sang with King Oliver's band and made her recording debut in November 1925.
Early in the 1930s she retired from singing to raise her children. In the 1940s she worked in a bakery, but occasionally she sang in a club in Chicago. There she was rediscovered by Rudy Blesh in 1946 and recorded some superb sides for Circle Records. In the following years she greatly contributed to the revival of the classical blues with performances at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Paris Jazz Festival in France and the "Bessie Smith Memorial Concert" in New York's Town Hall.
She died in 1950 in a car accident.
This page contains lyrics to the following song(s):
She recorded this song in the early 1930s with Tampa Red and Georgia Tom accompanying her. It's from the Blues Classics LP #26, "When Women Sang The Blues".
Won't somebody have mercy on poor me? Won't somebody have mercy on poor me? I ain't got nobody to trim my Christmas tree Santa Claus is comin', my stockings hangin' on the wall Santa Claus is comin', my stockings hangin' on the wall If you can't bring me a man, don't bring nothing at all Santa oh Santa, bring me a full-grown man Santa oh Santa, bring me a full-grown man If you ain't got a good one, Santa do the best you can You find me weepin', everybody hear the news You find me weepin', everybody hear the news Bring me a man to cure these Christmas blues
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