St. Louis Blues is a 1958 American film broadly based on the life of W. C. Handy. It stars jazz and blues greats Nat "King" Cole, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway...
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(1958 film), a feature film Saint Louis Blues (2009 film), 2009 French film St. Louis Blues (album), a 1958 album by Nat King Cole St. Louis blues (music)...
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St. Louis Blues is a 1958 album by Nat King Cole, arranged by Nelson Riddle. St. Louis Blues was the soundtrack to the film of the same name that starred...
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"The Saint Louis Blues" (or "St. Louis Blues") is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914....
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St. Louis has four professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball, the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, St...
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"St. James Infirmary" is an American blues and jazz standard that emerged, like many others, from folk traditions. Louis Armstrong brought the song to...
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II, new styles of electric blues became popular in cities such as Chicago, Memphis, Detroit and St. Louis. Electric blues used electric guitars, double...
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titles was played against the old cross-city rival St. Louis Browns in 1944. The St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL) won the 2019 Stanley...
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Ike Turner (category St. Louis blues musicians)
careers of various blues musicians such as B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, and Bobby "Blue" Bland. In 1954, Turner relocated to East St. Louis where his Kings of...
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Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Jordan was also an actor and a film personality. He appeared in 14 three-minute Soundies filmed for "movie jukeboxes"...
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MS St. Louis was a diesel-powered ocean liner built by the Bremer Vulkan shipyards in Bremen for Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). She was named after the...
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W. C. Handy (redirect from The Father of the Blues)
St. Louis Blues (1958), a heavily fictionalized biographical film starring Nat King Cole with Eartha Kitt and Ruby Dee. After Handy's death in 1958,...
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This is a list of notable people from St. Louis or St. Louis County in the U.S. state of Missouri. The dates in parentheses represent lifespan, not necessarily...
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as the Blues Espoo Blues, ice hockey team of Espoo, Finland St. Louis Blues, professional NHL ice hockey team based in St. Louis, Missouri Blues (Super...
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The year 1958 in film in the US involved some significant events, including the hit musicals South Pacific and Gigi, the latter of which won nine Academy...
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Gateway Arch (redirect from St. Louis Arch)
The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted...
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providing the voice for the orangutan King Louie in the 1967 Disney film The Jungle Book. Louis Leo Prima was from a musical Italian American family in New Orleans...
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film begun with the working title Hot Nocturne, but finally released as Blues in the Night. The song is sung in the film by William Gillespie. "Blues...
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Stagger Lee (redirect from Stack O' Lee Blues)
American folk song about the murder of Billy Lyons by "Stag" Lee Shelton, in St. Louis, Missouri, on Christmas 1895. The song was first published in 1911 and...
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"St. Louis Blues" from the WC Handy album, show that the influence went in both directions. Armstrong appeared in more than a dozen Hollywood films, usually...
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A list of American films released in 1958. The musical romantic comedy film Gigi won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. 1958 in the United States "Day...
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(1882–1958), oilman and baseball club owner George Stovall (1877–1951), American baseball player, manager of the Cleveland Naps, and player/manager of St....
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relocates to St. Louis, where she reunites with her mother and Alline. While in St. Louis, Alline takes Anna to a nightclub at East St. Louis, where she...
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Little Milton (category American blues guitarists)
career in 1953 at Sun Records before relocating to St. Louis and co-founding Bobbin Records in 1958. It wasn't until Milton signed to Checker Records that...
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Chuck Berry (category St. Louis blues musicians)
was working with local bands in clubs in St. Louis as an extra source of income. He had been playing blues since his teens, and he borrowed both guitar...
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men in Town and Country, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. It is located in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis and is owned and operated by the De La Salle Christian...
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corners of the world. Its three-story building stands in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri, where it is visited by up to a half million people every year...
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competitions. In 1913, the St. Louis Soccer League came to national attention when St. Leo's tied the Paterson True Blues, winners of the American Cup...
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The following is a list of films filmed using the VistaVision process. Films are live-action color features except where noted. Star Wars (1977) Star...
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A Great Day in Harlem (redirect from Harlem 1958)
Ha(a)rlem". In 1998, "Great Day in St Paul" was taken by Byron Nelson. The trend spread to other styles of music, with Houston blues musicians posing for "A Great...
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