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. W.C.
Handy's St. Louis Blues was written nearly 100 years ago, and it has inspired thousands of recorded versions. Thomas Cunniffe examines four dozen jazz versions in this month's Historical Essay.
A playlist is available for readers who want to listen along. The song St. Louis Blues was written by W.C.
Handy and was first recorded and released by Prince's Band in 1916. It was covered by Jerry Reed, Arvell Shaw and the Louis Armstrong Legacy Band, Alice Gerrard & Mike Seeger, Russell "Big Chief" Moore's Pow Wow Jazz Band and other artists. In 1914, W.C.
Handy, a middle-class African American, wrote "St. Louis Blues." It came at a time when Tin Pan Alley's popular songs began to fuse with folklore to explore the blues, the form that. Written by the Same Composer (s) Comments Listen and Compare St.
Louis Blues Artist Album Amazon. 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.
"St. Louis Blues" was composed by W. C.
Handy, who is often regarded as the "Father of the Blues." The song was written in 1914 and has become an iconic piece in the blues genre. While many artists have influenced blues music, Handy is credited as the original composer of this classic tune. The Saint Louis Blues (or St.
Louis Blues) is a popular American song composed by W. Handy in the blues style and released in September 1914. It was one of the first blues songs to succeed as a pop song and is still a fundamental part of the repertoire of jazz musicians.
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Notice the lyrics, written in dialect vernacular. While "Memphis Blues" was among the first, "St. Louis Blues" is considered the best example of early blues music, and the first to be successful as a popular song.
Published in 1914, the song is supposedly based on Handy's experiences being penniless and sleeping on the. In 1914, Handy's most famous piece, "St. Louis Blues," became the first published Blues song.
The song quickly gained international attention and put St. Louis and Missouri on a global map.