[2] In 1919, Pinetop Smith appeared alongside "Mattie Dorsey's Big Four" at a show in Memphis, Tennessee.
[3] Another then stalwart of the black entertainment scene was the pianist Troy C(alvin) Snapp.
[4] Those four tracks were released as two singles, for Paramount Records, although details of her later life are unknown.
[2] "Oh Wasn't It Nice" and "Mattie Blues" were recorded at Marsh Laboratories, in Chicago, Illinois, around August, 1927.
[1] This is partly explained by the fact that Dorsey earned a living in the mid-1920s as a male impersonator.