"The Weary Blues" is a poem by American poet Langston Hughes. Written in 1925, "The Weary Blues" was first published in the Urban League magazine Opportunity...
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Weary Blues (also referred to as The Weary Blues) is an album by the American poet Langston Hughes, who recites several of his poems over jazz accompaniment...
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"Weary Blues" is a 1915 tune by Artie Matthews. Despite the name, the form is a multi-strain ragtime rather than a conventional blues. (At the time it...
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Langston Hughes (redirect from The Dream Keeper)
The Crisis magazine and then from book publishers, and became known in the creative community in Harlem. His first poetry collection, The Weary Blues...
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whilst going against the idea that patriotism is limited by race. It was first published in Hughes' first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues in 1926. This poem...
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"Weary Blues from Waitin'" is a song written by Hank Williams. It was released as a posthumous single on MGM Records in 1953. Although Williams had been...
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People), and in 1926 it was included in his first poetry collection, The Weary Blues. Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair...
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the way to visit his father in Mexico. The poem was first published in The Crisis in June 1921, and was later collected into the 1926 The Weary Blues...
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Harlem Renaissance (redirect from The Harlem Renaissance)
Alain (1925). The New Negro. Touchstone. Hughes, Langston (1926). The Weary Blues. New York: Random House. Hughes, Langston (1994). The Collected Poems...
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Ballad of Easy Rider (redirect from The Ballad Of Easy Rider)
of late 1969 and highlighting "the weary blues and dashed expectations of a decade's worth of social insurrection". The star and script writer of Easy...
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Songs from The Weary Blues (Hughes) (April 26, 1935): "My Dream", "Songs to the Dark Virgin", "Ardella", "Dream Ships"." [Note: The Weary Blues here refers...
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Nicaragua 1926 – Opportunity Magazine publishes Langston Hughes' The Weary Blues 1926 – The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is published. 1927 – Sacco...
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Countee Cullen (section The Black Christ)
second with "To One Who Say Me Nay", losing to Langston Hughes's "The Weary Blues". Cullen graduated from NYU in 1925 and was one of eleven students...
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terms of both sales and critical reception. However, his first work The Weary Blues and this collection made his reputation. Biographer Arnold Rampersad...
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Dion Graham (section Best of the Year Lists)
Hughes's The Weary Blues, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail, James Baldwin's Going to Meet the Man, and Chester Himes's The Big Gold...
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Slide Hampton, Two Sides of Slide (Fresh Sound, 1994) Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues with Langston Hughes (MGM, 1958) Michel Legrand, Legrand Jazz (Columbia...
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As a bandleader, the American jazz bassist Charles Mingus released 51 albums between 1949 and 1977; as a sideman, Mingus appeared on a total of 34 albums...
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wish to linger Where they play the weary blues Second verse Tonight I'm prayin', tonight I'm sayin' Oh Lord please take the train that takes me To Tishomingo...
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Know" "If You'll Be A Baby To Me" "I'm A Long Gone Daddy" "Weary Blues From Waitin'" "I Saw the Light" "Your Cheatin' Heart" "I Can't Get You Off of my Mind"...
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Boogie-woogie (redirect from Barrelhouse blues)
The 1919 recordings (two takes) of "Weary Blues" by the Louisiana Five contained the same boogie-woogie bass figure as appears in the 1915 "Weary Blues"...
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Jazz poetry (section The Harlem Renaissance)
poets. Many of Hughes' poems, such as "The Weary Blues", sound almost exactly like popular jazz and blues songs of the period, and vice versa. His work is...
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"Remember Rockefeller at Attica" – 5:56 "Sue's Changes" – 17:04 "Devil Blues" (George Adams, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Mingus) – 9:24 "Duke Ellington's...
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Lenox Avenue (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
his "The Weary Blues". The avenue is mentioned in his "Juke Box Love Song" and "Consider Me". The avenue is featured in the first verse of the original...
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(Curly Putman, Ronnie Hawkins) "A Good Leavin' Alone" (Ronnie Self) "Weary Blues from Waitin'" (Hank Williams) "Wrong Doin' Man" (James Golemon, Guy Golemon)...
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in rhythm and blues bands." Debut Rarities, Vol. 3 (1957, Original Jazz Classics) – Shafi Hadi Sextet With Langston Hughes Weary Blues (MGM, 1958) With...
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Skiffle (category Blues music genres)
Brocken, The British folk revival, 1944–2002 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 69–80. L. R. Broer and J. D. Walther, Dancing Fools and Weary Blues: the Great...
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Riff (section Usage in jazz, blues and R&B)
verse of "The Hucklebuck", which was another riff, was "borrowed" from the Artie Matthews composition "Weary Blues". Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" had...
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Gil Scott-Heron (redirect from The Godfather of Rap)
13, 2009. Archived from the original on June 3, 2011. Retrieved May 28, 2011. Baram, Marcus (June 22, 2008). "The Weary Blues: Hip-hop godfather Gil Scott-Heron's...
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The Waterboys (1983) A Pagan Place (1984) This Is the Sea (1985) Fisherman's Blues (1988) Room to Roam (1990) Dream Harder (1993) A Rock in the Weary...
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protection of the laws. Afro-American Historical Family Record (1899) "I, Too": The last page of Langston Hughes' 1926 poetry collection Weary Blues; lines from...
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