Virginia Liston (née Crawford; c. 1890 – June 1932)[2] was an American classic female blues and jazz singer.

In the 1920s she made a series of recordings that included performances with Clarence Williams and his Blue Five on "You've Got the Right Key, but the Wrong Keyhole" and "Early in the Morning", and with the Clarence Williams Washboard Band on "Cushion Foot Stomp", and "P.D.Q.

[1] In January 1924, Liston and Sam Gray together recorded two songs, "You Can Have It (I Don't Want It)" and "Just Take One Long Last Lingering Look", for Okeh.

In 1927, Liston made her final recording session, singing "Cushion Foot Stomp" and "P.D.Q.

[4] Her song "You Don't Know My Mind Blues" was credited to the songwriting team of Gray, Liston and Williams.

[11] Sexual innuendo appears in songs such as "Rolls Royce Papa", written by Liston and recorded in 1926, in which she sang of a man with a "bent piston rod".