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.
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Louis Blues Lyrics This is W.C. Handy's signature song, and it's been covered by everyone from Louis Armstrong to Bessie Smith to Big Bill Broonzy to the one here by Shirley Bassey. So begins one of the most famous songs in blues history, a work often compared to Shakespeare's Hamlet for its iconic power and influence.
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Handy Philharmonic (FR-81-A) Topics 78rpm, Jazz, Jazz Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 748.2M. St. Louis woman with her diamond rings, Pulls dat man 'roun' by her apron strings.
'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. Everything about the Beatles song St.
Louis Blues (Handy), including background & recording info, quotes, special notes, and more. The Handy's Memphis Blues Band "St. Louis Blues" is an instrumental that differs from other versions by opening with the bridge section.
It features a rapid-fire intro by Handy himself on cornet--an instrument he had mastered as a schoolboy, practicing finger runs unobtrusively at his desk. 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.