Contact
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Prince's Band
Author: William Christopher Handy
Label: Columbia
Year: 1917
Just named Beale Street on the label. About the main black artery in south Memphis where Handy wrote his Memphis Blues (see there). Chorus starts with the line If Beale Street could talk...
Covers:
W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band [author]
Gilda Gray [in revue Shubert's Gaieties on Broadway, NYC]
Marion Harris [top 5 US]
Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers [as Ramblin' Blues]
Ella Fitzgerald [in film St. Louis Blues starring Nat King Cole as Handy]
Peggy Lee [as Beale Street]
Eric Bibb [as New Beale Street Blues]
Loudon Wainwright III [as Ramblin' Blues on his Charlie Poole Project]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)