Georgia White was an African American

African American

African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

 blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 singer, most prolific in the 1930s and 1940s.

Little is known of her early life. By the late 1920s she was singing in clubs

Nightclub

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 in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, and she made her first recording

Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...

, "When You're Smiling, the Whole World Smiles With You," with Jimmie Noone

Jimmie Noone

Jimmie Noone was an American jazz clarinetist.- Background :...

's orchestra

Orchestra

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 in 1930. She returned to the studio

Recording studio

A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...

 in 1935, and over the next six years recorded over 100 tracks for Decca Records

Decca Records

Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....

, usually accompanied by the pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

 Richard M. Jones and also, in the late 1930s, by guitarist

Guitarist

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 Lonnie Johnson

Lonnie Johnson

Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson was an American blues and jazz singer/guitarist and songwriter who pioneered the role of jazz guitar and is recognized as the first to play single-string guitar solos...

. Her output exceeds that of her rivals Lil Johnson

Lil Johnson (blues singer)

Lil Johnson was an African American singer, who recorded bawdy blues and hokum songs in the 1920s and 1930s....

 and Merline Johnson

Merline Johnson

Merline Johnson was an African American blues singer in the 1930s and 1940s, billed as The Yas Yas Girl.Little is known of her life, but she is thought to have been born in Mississippi. She was the aunt of rhythm and blues singer LaVern Baker. She first recorded in Chicago in 1937, on songs...

, and even Memphis Minnie

Memphis Minnie

Memphis Minnie was an American blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. She was the only female blues artist considered a match to male contemporaries as both a singer and an instrumentalist.-Career:...

, during those years.

She also recorded under the name Georgia Lawson. Many of her songs were mildly risqué, including "I'll Keep Sitting on It," "Take Me for a Buggy Ride," "Mama Knows What Papa Wants When Papa's Feeling Blue," and "Hot Nuts." Her best known song was "You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now."

In the 1940s, Georgia White formed an all-women band, which never recorded, and also performed with Bumble Bee Slim

Bumble Bee Slim

Amos Easton , better known by the stage name Bumble Bee Slim, was an American Piedmont blues musician.-Biography:Easton was born in Brunswick, Georgia, United States...

. In 1949 she joined Big Bill Broonzy

Big Bill Broonzy

Big Bill Broonzy was a prolific American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played country blues to mostly black audiences. Through the ‘30s and ‘40s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with white audiences...

 as pianist in his Laughing Trio. "She was very easy to get along with," said Broonzy. "Real friendly."

She returned to singing in clubs in the 1950s, and her last known public performance was in 1959 in Chicago.

One of her songs, "Alley Boogie" (recorded November 9, 1937), was used as the theme music

Theme music

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 for the British romantic comedy drama series, Love Soup

Love Soup

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