Mamie Smith - That thing called love
Why the open web links it
Mamie Smith's historic 1920 recording of 'That Thing Called Love,' the first song by a Black woman to be commercially released.
Linked by 10 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including duke.edu, ticketmaster.co.uk, americahates.us, cernejpudink.cz, colemanforredondo.com.