history, as well as in the history of blues music. Today, the blues clubs and restaurants that line Beale Street are major tourist attractions in Memphis...
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"Beale Street Blues" is a song by American composer and lyricist W.C. Handy. It was named after Beale Street, a center of African-American music in Memphis...
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The title is a reference to the 1916 W.C. Handy blues song "Beale Street Blues", named after Beale Street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee. It was adapted...
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W. C. Handy (redirect from The Father of the Blues)
Louis Blues/Yellow Dog Blues (Paramount #20098) (1922) St. Louis Blues/Beale Street Blues (Banner #1036) (1922) She's No Mean Job/Muscle Shoals Blues (Banner...
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Bobby Bland (category American blues singers)
as "second in stature only to B.B. King as a product of Memphis's Beale Street blues scene". In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Bland at number 163 on its list...
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B. B. King (redirect from Blues Boy King)
the late 1940s and early 1950s, King was a part of the blues scene on Beale Street. "Beale Street was where it all started for me," King said. He performed...
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Gilbert) – 3:15 "Stay" (Andy Razaf) – 2:37 "Joe Turner's Blues" (Walter Hirsch) – 2:40 "Beale Street Blues" – 2:56 "Careless Love" (Martha E. Koenig, Spencer...
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1916 – "Beale Street Blues". Blues song by W. C. Handy. Written about the lively black neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee, the Beale Street, it was first...
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"Wabash Blues" (Fred Meinken, Dave Ringle) – 6:22 "Basin Street Blues" (Spencer Williams) – 8:05 "Beale Street Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 7:40 "Weary Blues" (Artie...
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associated with Beale Street, the main entertainment area in Memphis. W. C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues", published the song "The Memphis Blues" in 1909...
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softly. After his divorce from Shutta, Olsen married Claralee Pilcer. "Beale Street Blues" (1924) "Biminy" (1924) "Everybody Loves My Baby" (1925) "He's The...
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"Actress Julie Newmar and Others Struggle With Noisy Leaf Blowers". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved January 18, 2009. Shapiro, Marc (2013). The Secret Lives...
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1949, Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, was bustling with merging blues musicians. Collectively they were referred to as the Beale Streeters. They were...
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"Birmingham Jail" (Traditional) – 4:15 "Love Me" (Kansas Joe McCoy) – 4:10 "Beale Street Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 2:52 "'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do" (Porter Grainger...
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One. "Born to Sing the Blues" (Lenny Adelson, Imogen Carpenter) - 2.47 "Beale Street Blues" (W.C. Handy) - 3.04 "Wabash Blues" (Fred Meinken, Dave Ringle)...
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Paris Autumn in New York Autumn Leaves Bags' Groove Basin Street Blues Beale Street Blues Bemsha Swing Billie's Bounce Blue Bossa Blue in Green Blue Monk...
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Positively Beale St. is the sixth solo studio album by American blues rock musician Walter Trout, the last to be credited to the Walter Trout Band. Recorded...
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Marion Harris (category American blues singers)
the 1920s. She was the first widely-known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs. She was born Mary Ellen Harrison on April 4, 1896, probably in Indiana...
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credibly record the blues with tracks such as her versions of "Saint Louis Blues" and "Beale Street Blues". Annette Hanshaw also made some blues recordings, such...
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- 5:08 "The Memphis Blues (Or Mister Crump)" (Handy, George A. Norton) - 2:59 "Beale Street Blues" (Handy) - 4:56 "Ole Miss Blues" (Handy) - 3:25 "Chantez...
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included this rhythm in his "St. Louis Blues", the instrumental copy of "Memphis Blues", the chorus of "Beale Street Blues", and other compositions. Jelly Roll...
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Little Victor (category American blues singers)
better known as Little Victor, The Beale Street Blues Bopper, and also DJ Mojo Man, is an Italian-American blues and roots singer, guitarist and harmonica...
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Joyce Cobb (category American rhythm and blues singer-songwriters)
Beale Street: Resurrecting the Home of the Blues, History Press. ISBN 978-1596294929, pp. 89 Geran, Paul. Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues (1992)...
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included this rhythm in his "St. Louis Blues", the instrumental copy of "Memphis Blues", the chorus of "Beale Street Blues", and other compositions. Jelly Roll...
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Richard Johnston (musician) (category American blues singers)
King Award for most promising blues guitarist. His work as a street musician on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, was documented in the Alabama PBS film...
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November 21, 1997. "Memphis and the Beale Street Blues". Gadfly Online. May 1998. "Bobby Rush: A Blues Access Interview". Blues Access. Summer 1998. "Crying...
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(January 14, 1996). "From Beale Street to 'Sad Street'". Florida/Metro. The Tampa Tribune. p. 6. Beal Jr., Jim (January 31, 1997). "Blues we can still use –...
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Ruby Wilson (category American blues singers)
2016) was an American blues and gospel singer. She was known as "The Queen of Beale Street" as she sang in clubs on Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, for...
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included this rhythm in his "St. Louis Blues," the instrumental copy of "Memphis Blues," the chorus of "Beale Street Blues," and other compositions." Jelly...
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John A. Elkington (category Memphis blues)
an American real estate developer best known for the redevelopment of Beale Street, the entertainment district in Memphis, Tennessee, known in the United...
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