Viola Bartlette

Viola Bartlette was an American blues singer who recorded on Black Swan Records and Paramount Records. She was from Baltimore. Bartlette recorded under the pseudonym Ida Lewis for Silvertone Records.

She often was a backup singer for Lovie Austin and accompanied Lovie Austin's Blue Serenaders band and Blythe's Sinful Five on records. Johnny Dodds accompanied Bartlette on recordings made in the 1920s. Clarinetist Jimmy O'Bryant backed her on session recordings during 1923 to 1926. She also recorded with Kid Ory.

Discography "Tennessee Blues" (1925) "Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night" (1925) by Lovie Austin's Blue Serenaders "Walk Easy 'Cause My Papa's Here" (1926), by Viola Bartlette with Cobb's Paramount Syncopators, Paramount "Anna Mina Forty And St. Louis Shorty" (1926) by Jimmy Blythe / Blythe's Sinful Five "You Don't Mean Me No Good" (1926)