Saint Louis Blues (song) " The Saint Louis Blues " (or " St. Louis Blues ") is a popular American song composed by W. C.
Handy in the jazz style and published in September 1914. It was one of the first blues songs to succeed as a pop song and remains a fundamental part of jazz musicians' repertoire. African American Heritage in Old Town Decatur Historical Marker W.c.
Handy - St. Louis Blues Created: 1914 Recorded: 1922 more. At the time "St.
Louis Blues" first appeared, however, in September of 1914, its 40-year-old composer (later to acquire a reputation as legendary as the song itself) was anything but renowned. "St. Louis Blues" was so successful that Handy and Pace relocated their publishing business to New York City in 1918.
That year also witnessed the first recording of "St. Louis Blues," although the most famous recording, featuring Bessie Smith singing and Louis Armstrong accompanying, was made in 1925. St.
Louis blues by Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958 Publication date 1914 Topics Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Songs and music, sheet music Publisher New York: Handy Bros.
Music Co. Collection brigham_young_university; americana Contributor Harold B. Lee Library Language English Item Size 16.6M For voice and piano, with chord diagrams for.
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'Twant for powder and for store-bought hair, The man ah love would not gone nowhere, nowhere. Got the St. Louis Blues just as blue as I can be.
That man got a heart like a rock cast in the sea. Or else he wouldn't have gone so far from me. Although "St.
Louis Blues" is regarded as a milestone of 20th-century American music, the best-known composition of William Christopher Handy (lauded as "Father of the Blues"), the song was far from an immediate success. In this it can be said to reflect the career of W.C. Handy himself, who was already 40 by the time he wrote "St.
Louis Blues," in 1914, and whose first success. William Christopher Handy (1873-1958) Although William Christopher Handy spent relatively little of his long life in Missouri, his "St. Louis Blues" (1914) secured a place for him in the state's musical history.
From Wikipedia: "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. It was one of the first blues songs to succeed as a pop song and remains a fundamental part of jazz musicians' repertoire.