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W.C. Handy

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William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was a blues composer and musician. He was widely known as the "Father of the Blues". Handy remains among the most influential of American songwriters. Though he was one of many musicians who played the distinctively American form of music known as the blues, he is credited with giving it its contemporary form. While Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, he took

Top songs

  1. St. Louis Blues
  2. Memphis Blues
  3. Careless Love
  4. Fuzzy Wuzzy Rag
  5. Yellow Dog Blues
  6. St. Louis Blues (Concerto Grosso) / Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor, Pt. 3: Adagietto
  7. Beale Street Blues
  8. Snakey Blues
  9. Moonlight Blues
  10. Muscle Shoals Blues
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  1. Ole Miss Rag
  2. That Jazz Dance
  3. Livery Stable Blues
  4. The Old Town Pump
  5. Farewell Blues
  6. Hooking Cow Blues
  7. Bunch O Blues
  8. She's A Mean Job Blues
  9. St. Louis Blues (Concerto Grosso)
  10. Gulf Coast Blues
  11. Sweet Child
  12. George Avakian's Interview With W.C. Handy
  13. Mister Crump
  14. St. Louis Blues - Redbook Stereo
  15. St. Louis Blues - Binaural Stereo
  16. Loveless Love
  17. St. Louis Blues March
  18. St Louis Blues
  19. Saint Louis Blues
  20. Oh Didn't He Ramble - Voice
  21. St. Louis Blues - Live
  22. Aunt Hagar's Blues
  23. St. Louis Blues (arr. for cello quartet)
  24. St. Louis Blues (arr. B. Berkes)
  25. Chantez-Les Bas
  26. Stardust
  27. Saint-Louis Blues
  28. The Bridegroom Has Done Come
  29. I'm Drinking from a Fountain That Never Runs Dry
  30. They That Sow in Tears, Shall Reap in Joy
  31. Stand on That Sea of Glass
  32. Give Me Jesus
  33. St. Louis Blues - Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, February 6, 1949
  34. St. Louis Blues: The "St. Louis" Blues (Arr. C. Norman)
  35. St. Louis Blues - Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, December 18, 1949
  36. St. Louis Blues (The Glenn Miller Story)
  37. We'll Go on and Serve the Lord
  38. St. Louis Blues - 1994 Remastered
  39. Careless Love Blues [Voyager]
  40. Handy: Saint Louis Blues (Arr. for Harpsichord by Jean Wiéner)
  41. Oh Didn't He Ramble
  42. Born To Sing The Blues
  43. Beale Street Blues - Instrumental
  44. Memphis Blues (Live)
  45. St. Louis Blues (Live)
  46. St Louis Blues - Instrumental
  47. St. Louis Blues: Intro
  48. St. Louis Blues - 1985 Digital Remaster
  49. Memphis Blues 1912
  50. Handy: Saint Louis Blues
  51. St. Louis Blues (arr. S. Drabkin for cello quartet)
  52. Aunt Hagar's Blues (Arranged for Piano by Art Tatum)
  53. Beale Street Blues [Album Version]
  54. St Louis Blues: St. Louis Blues (No. 1)
  55. St.Louis Blues
  56. The Memphis blues
  57. Friendless Blues
  58. Handy, Christopher: St. Louis Blues
  59. St Louis Blues: St. Louis Blues (No. 2)
  60. St Louis Blues: St. Louis Blues March
  61. San Luis Blues
  62. St Louis Blues: St. Louis Blues (take 2)
  63. St Louis Blues: St. Louis Blues (take 1)
  64. Careless Love Blues
  65. Old Town Pump
  66. Hesitating Blues
  67. Atlanta Blues
  68. Long Gone
  69. W.C. Handy / St. Louis Blues
  70. St. Louis Blues - Instrumental
  71. St. Louis Blues - Voice
  72. Careless Love Blues (take 1)
  73. Ole Miss Rag 1917
  74. Oh, Didn't He Ramble
  75. Joe Turner's Blues
  76. Ole Miss Rag 1917 (original)
  77. Aunt Hagar’s Blues
  78. Handy: Haunting Blues
  79. Harlem blues
  80. St. Luis Blues
  81. Bunch O' Blues
  82. The Sound of Solitude
  83. A Ragtime
  84. St. Louis Blues - 2008 Remastered Version
  85. St. Louis Blues (Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey)
  86. Beale Street Blues (1951)
  87. St Louis Blues [Rumba]
  88. St. Louis Blues (Perf. Bessie Smith)
  89. Ole Miss
  90. St. Louis Blues (1923)

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