Really the blues? a blues history 1893-1959. Volume 1
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Lowe, Allen, 1954- composer.
Published
Don Mills, Ontario : West Hill Radio Archives, [2010].
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Music CD
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10 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Morris County Library - Adult Media | MB COLL RB-1893-1959 W 28 (12042) | Available |
Table of Contents
CD 1: Mama's black baby boy / Unique Quartet Fall (2:27) --
Keep movin' / Standard Quartet (2:46) --
Poor mourner / Cousins and DeMoss (1:56) --
You been a good old wagon / Len Spencer (2:13) --
Poor mourner / Dinwiddie Colored Quartet (2:54) --
Nobody / Bert Williams (2:53) --
What a time / Polk Miller and his Old South Quartet (3:43) --
The camp meeting jubilee / Male Quartet (1:41) --
Poor mourner / Fisk University Jubilee Quartet (3:09) --
Down home rag / James Reese Europe (3:22) --
The rain song / Afro American Folk Song Singers (3:07) --
Memphis blues / Victor Military Band (3:02) --
Memphis blues / Morton Harvey (2:40) --
Blame it on the blues / Victor Military Orch. (3:09) --
St. Louis blues / Prince's Band (4:06) --
N Blues / George O'Connor (2:58) --
Livery stable blues / Original Dixieland Jazz Band (3:08) --
Moonlight blues / WC Handy (3:16) --
Death where is thy sting? / Arthur Collins (3:12) --
Beale Street blues / Al Bernard (3:05) --
Memphis blues / James Reese Europe (2:37) --
Kansas City blues / Wilbur Sweatman Col. (3:08) --
Swanee blues / J. Milton DeCamp (2:28) --
Lovin' Sam from Alabam / Mamie Smith (2:49) --
Frankie blues / Mamie Smith (3:05) --
Chain gang blues / Sam Moore ; Octacorda (2:49) --
My soul is a witness / Florida Normal and Industrial Institute Quartet (2:21).
CD 2: Society blues / Kid Ory (3:12) --
Teasin' the frets / Nick Lucas (2:54) --
I ain't got nobody / Marion Harris (3:05) --
Midnight blues / Ethel Waters (3:03) --
Aggravatin' papa / Sophie Tucker (3:03) --
New Orleans joys / J.R. Morton (2:45) --
Guitar blues / Sylvester Weaver (2:40) --
London blues / Jelly Roll Morton's Jazz Orch. (3:14) --
Waitin' for the evening mail / Noble Sissle ; Eubie Blake (2:54) --
Bleeding hearted blues / James P. Johnson (3:01) --
London cafe blues / King Oliver ; Baby Dodds ; Jimmy Noone (2:45) --
The gospel train am comin' / Homer Rodheaver and the Wiseman Quartet (2:56) --
Any woman's blues / Bessie Smith (3:17) --
God's gonna set this world on fire / Kentucky Trio (3:02) --
If you do what you do / Eddie cantor with the Georgians (3:04) --
Hatchet head blues / Old Southern Jug Band (2:44) --
Time ain't gonna make me stay / Ed Andrews (2:45) --
Waffle man's call / Johnny Bayersdorffer (3:01) --
Rhapsody in blue / Paul Whiteman (3:52) --
I've got a cross eyed papa / Levitsch Tanzorchester (3:28) --
Barrel house blues / Rosa Henderson (3:17)
Mississippi shivers /
Zez Confrey and his orch. (3:24) --
Kiss me sweet / Butterbeans and Susie with King Oliver (3:08) --
Toddlin' blues / Bix and his Rhythm Jugglers ; T. Dorsey, Bix, Murray (2:42) --
Nobody knows the way I feel this morning / Alberta Hunter (2:47) --
Steppin on the blues / Lovie Austin ; Ladnier/O'Bryant (2:30).
CD 3: All night long blues / Roba Stanley and Bob Stanley (3:14) --
Meddlin' with the blues / the Two of Spades (3:09) --
Frank Du Pree [i.e. Frank Dupree] / Blind Andy (Jenkins) (2:56) --
Steel string blues / Sylvester Weaver (3:12) --
Hersal blues / Hersal Thomas (2:58) --
Street cries of New Orleans / Edna Thomas (2:59) --
The wagon / Ben Harney (1:45) --
A married man's blues / Wade Ward (2:38) --
She's cryin' for me / New Orleans Rhythm Kings (2:44) --
Put me in the alley / Nicholas/Jones St. Cyr (2:51) --
All I want is a little spoonful / Papa Charlie Jackson (2:38) --
Red man blues / Piron's New Orleans Orchestra (2:58) --
South Street blues / Benny Moten's KC Orchestra (2:34) --
No home blues / Louise Ross (2:44) --
Sugar babe / Lee Morse (2:38) --
Careless love / Bessie Smith (3:26) --
Don't fish in my sea / Ma Rainey with Jimmy Blythe (2:52) --
I'll be rested / Roosevelt Graves and his brother (2:29) --
I want my life to testify / Hendersonville Double Quartet (2:52) --
Can't sleep blues / The Pebbles (2:28) --
String band blues / Kansas City Blues Strummers (2:31) --
Black cat blues / Old Pal Smoke Shop Four (3:05) --
Mama's angel child / Papa Stovepipe (2:57) --
Jack O' diamond blues / Sippie Wallace ; Armstrong ; Hersal Thomas (3:04) --
Memphis Shake / Dixieland Jugblowers (3:16) --
Crucifixion / Arizona Dranes, piano solo (3:29) --
Royal palm special / Leecan and Cooksey (3:02).
CD 4: Lamb's blood has washed me clean / Dranes ; Rev. F.W. McGee ; Jubilee Singers (3:15) --
I shall wear a crown / Dranes ; unknown musicians and female singers (3:10) --
High fever / Cookie's Ginger Snaps ; Freddie Keppard (3:19) --
I want Jesus to walk with me / Homer Quincy Smith (2:44) --
Blackville / Hazel Meyers (3:09) --
Birdwell blues / Nolan Welsh with L. Armstrong (3:27) --
Fat meat and greens / Jelly Roll Morton (2:56) --
Christians fight on your time ain't long / Sam Butler (Bo Weavil Jackson) (2:43) --
Got the blues / Blind Lemon Jefferson (2:57) --
Chock house blues / Blind Lemon Jefferson (2:40) --
Birth of the blues / Paul Whiteman ; Ray Henderson ; B.G. DeSylva ; Lew Brown (3:05) --
Knoxville blues / Sam McGee (3:01) --
My soul is a witness / Arizona Dranes (2:25) --
Smoke house blues / Jelly Roll Morton ; Kid Ory ; Omer Simeon (3:25) --
Boneyard shuffle / The Red Heads ( Red Nichols ; M. Mole ; A. Schutt ; Fud LIvingston) (2:52) --
Motherless child / Blind Willie Johnson (3:20) --
The bumps / Jeanette's Synco Jazzers with M.L. Williams (2:22) --
Tin roof blues / Sol Hooopi ; Leon Roppolo ; Paul Mares ; George Brunies ; Ben Pollack (3:16)
Bamalong blues /
Andrew and Jim Baxter (3:08) --
Hanna won't you open the door / Sam and Kirk McGee (2:51) --
Honey just allow me one more chance / Henry Thomas (2:50)
James Alley Blues /
Richard Rabbit Brown (3:09) --
Franklin Street blues / Dumaine's Jazzola Eight (3:21) --
Fight that thing / Reb Spikes (2:33) --
Clarinet wobble / Johnny Dodds (2:35) --
Mr. Johnson turn me loose / South Georgia Highballers (2:58).
CD 5: My old daddy's got a brand new way to love / Leecan ; Cooksey ; Thomas Morris (3:28) --
Honey in the rock / Blind Mamie Forehand (2:42) --
Georgia crawl / Henry Williams and Eddie Anthony (3:20) --
Blessed are the poor / Luther Magby (3:07) --
A good man is hard to find / Bix ; Tram ; Murray ; Russell ; Rolini ; Venuti ; Eddie Green (3:02) --
I am resolved / Ernest Stoneman ; Kahle Brewer ; with vocal chorus (2:58) --
Curley headed woman / Burnett & Rutherford (3:06) --
Down south blues / Doc Boggs (2:50) --
Black snake blues / King Oliver (3:06)
Weary way blues /
Natty Dominique ; Johnny Dodds ; Jimmy Blythe (3:12) --
Honky tonk train blues / Meade Lux Lewis (3:28) --
The Lord is my shepherd / Blind Connie Rosemond (2:50) --
Penn beach blues / Joe Venuti ; Eddie Lang ; Signorelli ; Don Murray (3:12) --
Black hearse blues / Sarah Martin ; with Sylvester Weaver (3:25) --
Cold penitentiary blues / B.F. Shelton (3:12) --
Shaking the blues away / Ruth Etting ; with Rube Bloom, piano ; Irving Berlin (3:23) --
The crowing rooster / Walter Rhodes (3:02) --
Creole love call / Duke Ellington (2:46) --
Gods gonna separate the wheat from the tares / Blind Joe Taggart (2:52) --
Jazz me blues / Bix B. and his Gang (2:53) --
Royal garden blues / Bix B. and his Gang ; Clarence Williams ; Spender Williams (3:07) --
Chattanooga blues / Allen Bros. (3:02) --
New Orleans lowdown / Duke Ellington ; B. Miley (2:46) --
Barrellhouse man / Will Ezell (3:12) --
I am born to preach the gospel / Washington Phillips (3:02).
CD 6: Death is only a dream / Edward Clayborne (2:55) --
Neckbones and beans / Henry Johnson and his boys (2:45) --
She's in the graveyard now / Earl MacDonald's Original Jug Band (2:44) --
Yellow dog blues / Sam Collins (2:31) --
Mamlish blues / Ed Bell (2:35) --
Starvation blues / Jessie Stone (3:14) --
Wild man blues / Louis Armstrong ; Johnny Dodds (3:10) --
Can you blame the colored man? / Gus Cannon (2:43) --
Mama you don't know how long / Long Cleve Reed and the Downhome Boys (2:55) --
A woman gets tired of the same man all the time / Stovepipe #1 Same Jones (3:13) --
Second-hand blues / Maragret Johnson with Leecan ; Cooksey (3:10) --
Awful fix / Buddy Boy Hawkins (2:28) --
Train 45 / Grayson and Whitter (3:05) --
Hesitation blues / Al Bernard ; C. Quealey ; Bobby Davis ; Al Duffy (3:07) --
Section gang blues / Texas Alexander with Lonnie Johnson (2:59) --
Lonesome ghost blues / Lonnie Johnson (3:09) --
Lord I can't stay away / Violet Harmony Singers (3:22) --
Deep river / Paul Robeson (2:19) --
Doan let satan git you / Barbour's Plantation Singers (2:44) --
Every time I feel the spirit / C. Mae Frierson Moore and the Four Aces of Harmony (2:59) --
Man Trouble / Jaybird Coleman (3:03) --
Big road blues / Tommy Johnson (3:19) --
Deep river / Forbes Randolph Kentucky Jubilee Choir (2:52) --
Blues in the bottle / Prince Albert Hunt (3:23) --
Stealin' / Memphis Jug Band (3:08) --
I'm wild about my lovin' / Jim Jackson (3:13).
CD 7: Viola Lee blues / Cannon's Jug Stompers (3:09) --
Take me back / Frank Stokes (3:10) --
Three preludes. 2nd prelude / George Gershwin (2:34) --
I heard the voice of Jesus say / Biddleville Quintet (3:15) --
Away down in the alley blues / Lonnie Johnson (2:55) --
Going across the sea / H.L. Bandy (2:58) --
Chocolate to the bone / Barbecue Bob (2:54) --
Pinetop's blues / Pinetop Smith (2:46) --
99 year blues / Julius Daniels (3:03) --
Touch me light mama / George Bullet Williams with unknown (2:46) --
Mississippi jail house groan / Rube Lacy (3:22) --
Sawmill moan / Rambling Thomas (2:56)
Johnson City blues /
Clarence Green (2:57) --
Wayward girl blues / Lottie Kimbrough (2:52) --
I must have that man / Annette Hanshaw ; Dorothy Fields ; James McHugh (2:58) --
Slow motion / Bennie Moten (2:41) --
Molly man / Moses Mason (3:07) --
If the light has gone out in your soul / Ernest Phipps and his Holiness Singers (3:04) --
Mon cherie / Bebe Creole Dennis McGee (in New Orleans) (2:45) --
Four or five times / King Oliver (3:10) --
Avalon blues / Mississippi Joh Hurt (3:03) --
I ain't got nobody / Emmett Miller (3:06) --
G Burns is gonna rise again / Johnson ; Nelson ; Porkchop (3:01) --
Can't help lovin' that man / Helen Morgan ; Jerome Kern (2:56) --
Violin blues / The Johnson boys (Hayes and Prater) (3:20) --
Good old turnip greens / Bo Chatman (3:07).
CD 8: Every day of the week blues / Pink Anderson ; Simmie Dooley (2:53) --
Alley rat / Jimmy Blythe, piano solo (2:59) --
I'm on my journey home / The Denson Quartet (3:19) --
One way gal / William Moore (3:15) --
Stack O'Lee pt. 2 / Cliff Edwards (2:32) --
Worried blues / Gladys Bentley (2:46) --
Can't help lovin' that man / Helen Morgan ; Jerome Kern (3:02) --
Jungle blues / Benny Goodman's Boys (3:17) --
Old man river / Bing with Paul Whiteman ; Jerome Kern (3:13) --
Old time baptism, pt. 2 / R.M. Massey (3:29) --
Blue piano stomp / Johnny Dodds (3:08) --
Sunshine special / Frenchy's string band (3:12) --
Midnight mama / Frances Hereford ; J.R. Morton (2:46) --
Lord Lord he sure is good / Elder Richard Bryant with Sanctified Singers (3:04) --
Wang wang blues / Sam Ku's West Harmony Blues (3:07) --
Tight like that / Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band (2:43) --
A blues serenade / Original Memphis 5 ; Signorelli (2:35) --
I truly understand you love another man / Shortbuckle Roarke and his family (2:35) --
I found a new baby / Teschmacher ; Spanier ; Sullivan ; Krupa ; Clarence Williams (3:09) --
Hard hustling blues / Bernice Edwards (3:10) --
The boy in the boat / Charlie Johnson's Paradise 10 (3:33) --
School girl blues / Rosa Mae Moore (3:28) --
I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate / Boyd Senter and his Sentipedes (3:05) --
Ham beats all meat / Dr. Humphrey Bate and his Possum Hunters (2:37) --
In the mornin' / Johnson ; Nelson ; Porkchop (2:56) --
The preacher got drunk and laid his bible down / Tennessee Ramblers (2:46).
CD 9: Home town blues / Roane County Ramblers (3:08) --
Judge Harsh Blues / Furry Lewis (3:04) --
Caution blues / Earl Hines (3:00) --
Blues harmony / Clifford Hayes' Louisville Stompers ; Carl Smith ; Hense Grundy (3:31) --
Cannon ball Blues / Frank Hutchison (3:20) --
Brown skin blues / Dick Justice (3:11) --
Leake County blues / Lake County revelers (3:05) --
Bathe in that beautiful pool / Doc Walsh (2:56) --
Easy rider blues / Leo Soileau (2:55) --
Operation blues / Frankie Jaxon ; Georgia Tom Dorset (3:11) --
I'm a mighty tight woman / Sippi Wallace ; Dodds Dominique (2:51) --
That's no way to get along / Robert Wilkins (2:53) --
Walking blues / Raymond Barrow (3:10) --
Don't mistreat your good boyfriend / The Bubbling Over Fire (Blues Birdhead) (3:15) --
St. Louis blues ; Weary yodelin' blues / Roy Evans ; W.C. Handy (3:56) --
Fresno blues / Johnnie and Albert Crockett (2:55) --
Mean low blues / Blues Birdhead (3:15) --
Georgia bound / Blind Blake (3:22) --
If I call you mama / Luke Jordan (3:11) --
Just blues / Memphis Jazzers ; Andy Sannella ; Al Duffy (2:53) --
Lawdy lawdy worried blues / Teddy Darby (3:06) --
New York blues / Blind Roosevelt Graves ; Will Ezell (3:11) --
Guitar blues / Lang ; Lonnie Johnson (3:17) --
Avenue strut / Heurve Duerson (2:48) --
Slum Guillion stomp / Cow Cow Davenport (2:59).
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Published
Don Mills, Ontario : West Hill Radio Archives, [2010].
Language
English
UPC
5425008377094
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Compiled by Allen Lowe.
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"This volume covers recordings from 1893-1929"--Container.
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Compact disc.
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Count includes CD-ROM disc with the contents, discography, and track listing.
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Track list (8 p.) inserted in container.
Language
Sung in English.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Lowe, A. (2010). Really the blues?: a blues history 1893-1959 . West Hill Radio Archives.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lowe, Allen, 1954-. 2010. Really the Blues?: A Blues History 1893-1959. West Hill Radio Archives.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lowe, Allen, 1954-. Really the Blues?: A Blues History 1893-1959 West Hill Radio Archives, 2010.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lowe, Allen. Really the Blues?: A Blues History 1893-1959 West Hill Radio Archives, 2010.
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