Betty Gray recorded only two songs in late 1927 (and possibly two more as Kitty Waters later in the year) which is a shame, because despite her awful phrasing on the refrain on this track she shows a lot of promise and certainly deserved a few more trips to the recording studio, maybe with some better backing musicians. This track Loud and Wrong is a great murder ballad about a jealous husband. The way she sings “…baseball…bat” makes me extremely giddy.

Betty Gray - Loud and Wrong (1927)

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