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Everybody Does It Now

Martha Copeland and
her Smokey City Trio

Andrew Mead, Martha Copeland, Porter Grainger, Ralph Jones

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This song was recorded on December 6th 1927 in New York City with singer Martha Copeland backed by Porter Grainger on piano, Ralph Jones violin, and Andrew Mead alto saxophone.

Next to nothing is known about the life of singer Martha Copeland. It is thought that she was from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania nicknamed the "Smokey City" because of the steel mills there). She started her recording career with Okeh in 1923, and appeared in a vaudeville revue "Shuffle Along."