Really the Blues?: A Blues History (1893-1959), Vol. 1 (1893-1929)
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- 1.
Mama's Black Baby Boy
UniqueQuartetFall
- 2.
Keep Movin'
Standard Quartette
- 3.
Poor Mourner
Studio ensemble, Cousins and DeMoss
- 4.
You've Been a Good Old Wagon, but You've Done Broke Down
Len Spencer, Studio pianist
- 5.
Poor Mourner
Dinwiddie Colored Quartet
- 6.
Nobody
Bert Williams, Studio ensemble
- 7.
What a Time
Polk Miller Old South Quartette, Studio ensemble
- 8.
Camp Meeting Jubilee
Male Quartet
- 9.
Poor Mourner
Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
- 10.
Down Home Rag
James Reese Europe, Wilbur Sweatman, Europe Society Orchestra
- 11.
The Rain Song
Studio pianist, AfroAmericanFolkSongSingers
- 12.
Memphis Blues
W.C. Handy, Victor Military Band
- 13.
Memphis Blues
Morton Harvey, Studio Orchestra
- 14.
Blame It on the Blues
Victor Military Band, Doc Cook
- 15.
St. Louis Blues
W.C. Handy, Prince's Orchestra
- 16.
Nigger Blues, "N Blues"
George O'Connor, W.C. Handy Memphis Blues Band
- 17.
Livery Stable Blues
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
- 18.
Moonlight Blues
W.C. Handy, Studio ensemble
- 19.
O Death Where Is Thy Sting
Studio ensemble, Arthur Collins
- 20.
Beale Street Blues
Studio ensemble, Al Bernard
- 21.
Memphis Blues
W.C. Handy, James Reese Europe, Europe Society Orchestra
- 22.
Kansas City Blues
Wilbur Sweatman, Euday L. Bowman, Wilbur Sweatman Jazz Band
- 23.
Swanee Blues
J. Milton DeCamp
- 24.
Lovin' Sam From Alabam
Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds, Mamie Smith
- 25.
Frankie Blues
Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds, Mamie Smith
- 26.
Chain Gang Blues
Sam Moore, Horace Davis
- 27.
My Soul Is a Witness
FloridaNormalIndustrialInstituteQuartet
- 28.
Society Blues
John Spikes, Reb Spikes, Kid Ory, Kid Ory Sunshine Orchestra
- 29.
Teasin' the Frets
Nick Lucas, Studio pianist
- 30.
I Ain't Got Nobody
Marion Harris, Studio ensemble, Spencer Williams
- 31.
Midnight Blues
Studio ensemble, Spencer Williams, Ethel Waters
- 32.
Aggravatin' Papa
Studio ensemble, Sophie Tucker
- 33.
New Orleans Joys
Jelly Roll Morton
- 34.
Guitar Blues
Sylvester Weaver
- 35.
London Blues
Jelly Roll Morton, Jelly Roll Morton Orchestra
- 36.
Waitin' For the Evening Mail
Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake
- 37.
Bleeding Hearted Blues
James P. Johnson
- 38.
London Cafe Blues
Jelly Roll Morton, Jimmie Noone, Joe King Oliver, Baby Dodds
- 39.
The Gospel Train Am Comin'
Homer Rodheaver and the Wiseman Quartet
- 40.
Any Woman's Blues
Fletcher Henderson, Bessie Smith
- 41.
God's Gonna Set this World on Fire
Kentucky Trio
- 42.
If You Do What You Do
Eddie Cantor, The Georgians
- 43.
Hatchet Head Blues
Clifford Hayes, Old Southern Jug Band
- 44.
Time Ain't Gonna Make Me Stay
Ed Andrews
- 45.
Waffle Man's Call
Johnny Bayersdorffer, Johnny Bayersdorfer, Johnny Bayersdorffer Jazzola Novelty Orchestra
- 46.
Rhapsody in Blue
Paul Whiteman, George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman Dance Band
- 47.
I've Got a Cross-Eyed Papa
Roy Ingraham, LevitschTanzorchester
- 48.
Barrel House Blues
Rosa Henderson, Studio pianist
- 49.
Mississippi Shivers
Zez Confrey, Zez Confrey Orchestra
- 50.
Kiss Me Sweet
Joe King Oliver, Butterbeans And Susie
- 51.
Toddlin' Blues
Tommy Dorsey, Larry Shields, Bix Beiderbecke, Nick LaRocca, Don Murray, Bix Beiderbecke Rhythm Jugglers
- 52.
Nobody Knows the Way I Feel this Morning
Alberta Hunter, Studio ensemble
- 53.
Steppin' on the Blues
Lovie Austin, Tommy Ladnier, Jimmy O'Bryant
- 54.
All Night Long Blues
Studio ensemble, Roba Stanley, Bob Stanley
- 55.
Meddlin' with the Blues
Anonymous, Two of Spades
- 56.
Frank Du Pree
Studio guitarist, Andrew Jenkins
- 57.
Steel String Blues
Sylvester Weaver, Earl Coleman
- 58.
Hersal Blues
Hersal Thomas
- 59.
Street Cries of New Orleans
Edna Thomas
- 60.
The Wagon
Ben Harney
- 61.
A Married Man's Blues
Wade Ward
- 62.
She's Cryin' for Me
New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Santo Pecora
- 63.
Put Me in the Alley Blues
Johnny St. Cyr, Albert Nicholas, Richard M. Jones
- 64.
All I Want Is a Little Spoonful
Papa Charlie Jackson
- 65.
Red Man Blues
Peter Bocage, Armand J. Piron, ArmandPiron'sNewOrleansOrchestra
- 66.
South Street Blues
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
- 67.
No Home Blues
Anonymous, Studio pianist, Louise Ross
- 68.
Sugar Babe
Lee Morse
- 69.
Careless Love
Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, Bessie Smith, Charlie Green
- 70.
Don't Fish in My Sea
Jimmy Blythe, Ma Rainey
- 71.
I'll Be Rested (When the Roll Is Called)
Roosevelt Graves and His Brother
- 72.
I Want My Life to Testify
HendersonvilleDoubleQuartet
- 73.
Can't Sleep Blues
The Pebbles
- 74.
String Band Blues
Anonymous, Kansas City Blues Strummers
- 75.
Black Cat Blues
Viola McCoy, Old Pal Smoke Shop Four
- 76.
Mama's Angel Child
Johnny "Guitar" Watson
- 77.
Jack O'Diamond Blues
Louis Armstrong, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sippie Wallace, Hersal Thomas
- 78.
Memphis Shake
Dixieland Jug Blowers, Henry Clifford
- 79.
Crucifixion
Anonymous, Arizona Dranes
- 80.
Royal Palm Special
Anonymous, Robert Cooksey, Bobbie Leecan
- 81.
Lamb's Blood Has Washed Me Clean
Arizona Dranes, Jubilee Singers
- 82.
I Shall Wear a Crown
Arizona Dranes, Studio vocal ensemble
- 83.
High Fever
Joe Sanders, Freddie Keppard, CookieGingersnaps
- 84.
I Want Jesus to Walk with Me
Studio organist, Homer Quincy Smith
- 85.
Blackville
Anonymous, Studio ensemble, Hazel Meyers
- 86.
Bridwell Blues
Louis Armstrong, Nolan Welsh, Richard M. Jones
- 87.
Fat Meat and Greens
Jelly Roll Morton, Jimmy Blythe
- 88.
Christians Fight on Your Time Ain't Long
Bo Weavil Jackson
- 89.
Got the Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson
- 90.
Chock House Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson
- 91.
Birth of the Blues
Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra, Paul Whiteman, Ferde Grofé, Jack Fulton, Austin Young, Charles Gaylord, Willie Hall, Harry Perella
- 92.
Knoxville Blues
Uncle Dave Macon, Sam McGee
- 93.
My Soul Is a Witness
Arizona Dranes
- 94.
Smoke House Blues
Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers, Charles Luke
- 95.
Boneyard Shuffle
Hoagy Carmichael, Red Heads, The
- 96.
Motherless Child
Blind Willie Johnson
- 97.
The Bumps
John Gerrard Williams, JeanetteJamesSyncoJazzers
- 98.
Tin Roof Blues
Sol Hoopii's Novelty Trio, Ben Pollack, George Brunies, Mel Stitzel, Paul Mares, Leon Roppolo
- 99.
Bamalong Blues
Andrew Baxter
- 100.
Hana Won't You Open the Door
Sam McGee, Harry Von Tilzer, Kirk McGee
- 101.
Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance
Studio ensemble, Henry Thomas
- 102.
James Alley Blues
Richard Brown
- 103.
Franklin Street Blues
Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight
- 104.
Fight that Thing
John Spikes, Reb Spikes, Johnny Dodds, Lillian Hardin Armstrong, Bud Scott
- 105.
Clarinet Wobble
Studio ensemble, Johnny Dodds
- 106.
Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose
South Georgia Highballers
- 107.
My Old Daddy's Got a Brand New Way to Love
Robert Cooksey, Thomas Morris, Bobbie Leecan
- 108.
Honey in the Rock
Blind Mamie Forehand, A.C. Forehand
- 109.
Georgia Crawl
Eddie Anthony, Henry Rubberlegs Williams
- 110.
Blessed are the Poor
Traditional, Washington Phillips, Blind Mamie Forehand, Luther Magby, A.C. Forehand
- 111.
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Eddie Lang, Frank Signorelli, Bix Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer, Pee Wee Russell, Joe Venuti, Adrian Rollini, Don Murray, Eddie Green, Bill Rank, Chauncey Morehouse
- 112.
I Am Resolved
Henry Fillmore, Ernest Stoneman, Kahle Brewer, Stoneman's Dixie Mountaineers
- 113.
Curley Headed Woman
Burnett & Rutherford
- 114.
Down South Blues
Dock Boggs
- 115.
Black Snake Blues
Victoria Spivey, King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators
- 116.
Weary Way Blues
Anonymous, Jimmy Blythe's Owls
- 117.
Honky Tonk Train Blues
Meade "Lux" Lewis
- 118.
The Lord is my Shepherd
Anonymous, Blind Connie Rosemond
- 119.
Penn Beach Blues
Eddie Lang, Frank Signorelli, Joe Venuti, Don Murray
- 120.
Black Hearse Blues
Sara Martin, Sylvester Weaver
- 121.
Cold Penitentiary Blues
B.F. Shelton
- 122.
Ziegfeld Follies of 1927: Shaking the Blues Away
Ruth Etting, Rube Bloom
- 123.
The Crowing Rooster
Walter Rhodes
- 124.
Creole Love Call
Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Adelaide Hall
- 125.
God's Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares
Blind Joe Taggart
- 126.
Jazz Me Blues
Bix Beiderbecke Gang, Tom Delaney
- 127.
Royal Garden Blues
Clarence Williams, Spencer Williams, Bix Beiderbecke Gang
- 128.
Chattanooga Blues
The Allen Brothers, Isidor Seidel
- 129.
New Orleans Lowdown
Duke Ellington, Bubber Miley, Duke Ellington Kentucky Club Orchestra
- 130.
Barrelhouse Man
Anonymous, Will Ezell
- 131.
I Am Born to Preach the Gospel
Washington Phillips
- 132.
Death Is Only a Dream
Edward Clayborn, Adoniram Judson Buchanan
- 133.
Neckbones and Beans
HenryJohnsonBoys
- 134.
She's in the Graveyard Now
Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band
- 135.
Yellow Dog Blues
Sam Collins, Sam Collins
- 136.
Mamlish Blues
Ed Bell
- 137.
Starvation Blues
Jesse Stone's Blue Serenaders, Jesse Stone
- 138.
Wild Man Blues
Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven, Johnny Dodds
- 139.
Can You Blame the Colored Man?
Gus Cannon, Blind Blake
- 140.
Mama You Don't Know How Long
Down Home Boys
- 141.
A Woman Gets Tired of the Same Man All the Time
Sam Jones, Stovepipe No.1, David Crockett
- 142.
Second-Handed Blues
Margaret Johnson, Robert Cooksey, Bobbie Leecan
- 143.
Awful Fix
Buddy Boy Hawkins
- 144.
Train 45
Henry Whitter, Gilliam Banmon Grayson
- 145.
Hesitation Blues
Bobby Davis, Al Bernard, Scott Middleton, Billy Smythe, Art Gillham, Al Duffy, Chelsea Quealey
- 146.
Section Gang Blues
Lonnie Johnson, Alger "Texas" Alexander
- 147.
Lonesome Ghost Blues
Lonnie Johnson
- 148.
Lord I Can't Stay Away
Violet Harmony Singers
- 149.
Deep River
Paul Robeson
- 150.
Doan Let Satan Git You
Barbour's Plantation Singers
- 151.
Everytime I Feel the Spirit
The Four Aces, Mae Frierson Moore
- 152.
Man Trouble
Jaybird Coleman
- 153.
Big Road Blues
Tommy Johnson
- 154.
Deep River
Forbes Randolph's Kentucky Jubilee Choir
- 155.
Blues in the Bottle
Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
- 156.
Stealin'
Memphis Jug Band
- 157.
I'm Wild About My Lovin'
Jim Jackson
- 158.
Viola Lee Blues
Cannon's Jug Stompers
- 159.
Take Me Back
Frank Stokes
- 160.
3 Preludes: No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor: Andante con moto e poco rubato
George Gershwin
- 161.
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
BiddlevilleQuintet
- 162.
Away Down in the Alley Blues
Lonnie Johnson
- 163.
Going Across the Sea
Henry L. Bandy
- 164.
Chocolate to the Bone
Robert Hicks
- 165.
Pinetop's Blues
Pinetop Smith
- 166.
99 Year Blues
Julius Daniels
- 167.
Touch Me Light Mama
George Williams
- 168.
Mississippi Jail House Groan
Rube Lacey
- 169.
Sawmill Moan
Rambling Thomas
- 170.
Johnson City Blues
Clarence Green
- 171.
Wayward Girl Blues
Lottie Kimbrough, Milas Pruitt
- 172.
I Must Have That Man
Jimmy McHugh, Annette Hanshaw
- 173.
Slow Motion
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Bennie Moten
- 174.
Molly Man
Moses Mason
- 175.
If the Light Has Gone Out in Your Soul
Shirley Jones, Ernest Phipps, Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers, Roland Johnson, Ethel Baker, Ancil McVay, Eula Johnson
- 176.
Mon chere bebe creole
Dennis McGee
- 177.
Four or Five Times
Joe King Oliver, King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators
- 178.
Avalon Blues
Mississippi John Hurt
- 179.
I Ain't Got Nobody
Spencer Williams, Emmett Miller, Georgia Crackers
- 180.
G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again
Tom Nelson, T.C. Johnson
- 181.
Show Boat: Can't help lovin' dat man
Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra, Jerome Kern, Helen Morgan
- 182.
Violin Blues
Johnson Boys, The
- 183.
Good Old Turnip Greens
Charlie McCoy, Walter Vinson, Bo Chatman
- 184.
Every Day in the Week Blues
Pink Anderson, Blind Simmie Dooley
- 185.
Alley Rat
Jimmy Blythe
- 186.
I'm On My Journey Home
Sarah Lancaster, The Denson Quartet
- 187.
One Way Gal
William Moore
- 188.
Stack O'Lee, Part 2
Cliff Edwards
- 189.
Worried Blues
Gladys Bentley
- 190.
Show Boat: Can't help lovin' dat man
Jerome Kern, Helen Morgan
- 191.
Jungle Blues
Jelly Roll Morton, Benny Goodman's Boys
- 192.
Show Boat: Ol' Man River
Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra, Paul Whiteman, Bing Crosby, Jerome Kern
- 193.
Old Time Baptism, Part 2
R.M. Massey
- 194.
Blue Piano Stomp
Johnny Dodds, Johnny Dodds' Trio
- 195.
Sunshine Special
Sam Harris, Frenchy's String Band, Jesse Hooker, Percy Darensbourg, Christian Polite
- 196.
Midnight Mama
Frances Hereford, Jelly Roll Morton's Levee Serenaders
- 197.
Lord, Lord, He Sure is Good
Richard Bryant, Elder Richard Bryant Sanctified Singers
- 198.
Wang Wang Blues
Sam Ku West Harmony Boys, Leo Wood, Gus Mueller, Buster Johnson
- 199.
It's Tight Like That
Frankie "Hal Pint" Jaxon, Tampa Red Hokum Jug Band
- 200.
A Blues Serenade
Original Memphis Five, Frank Signorelli
- 201.
I Truly Understand You Love Another Man
Traditional, Shortbuckle Roarke & Family
- 202.
I Found A New Baby
Spencer Williams, Chicago Rhythm Kings
- 203.
Hard Hustlin' Blues
Bernice Edwards
- 204.
The Boy in the Boat
CharlieJohnsonParadiseTen, Charlie Johnson
- 205.
School Girl Blues
Charlie McCoy, Rosie Mae Moore
- 206.
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
Armand J. Piron, BoydSenterSentipedes
- 207.
Ham Beats All Meat
Dr. Humphrey Bate Possum Hunters
- 208.
In the Mornin'
Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop
- 209.
The Preacher Got Drunk and Laid His Bible Down
Tennessee Ramblers
- 210.
Home Town Blues
Anonymous, Roane County Ramblers
- 211.
Judge Harsh Blues
Furry Lewis
- 212.
Caution Blues
Earl Hines
- 213.
Blue Harmony
Clifford Hayes, Clifford Hayes' Louisville Stompers
- 214.
Cannon Ball Blues
Frank Hutchison
- 215.
Brown Skin Blues
Dick Justice
- 216.
Leake County Blues
Traditional, The Leake County Revelers
- 217.
Bathe in that Beautiful Pool
Dock Walsh
- 218.
Easy Rider Blues
Leo Soileau
- 219.
Operation Blues
Thomas A. Dorsey, Frankie "Hal Pint" Jaxon
- 220.
I'm a Mighty Tight Woman
Kid Ory, Sippie Wallace, Johnny Dodds, Bill Johnson, Natty Dominique
- 221.
That's No Way to Get Along
Robert Wilkins
- 222.
Walking Blues
Raymond Barrow
- 223.
Don't Mistreat Your Good Boyfriend
Brown, Bubbling Over Five, Brown
- 224.
St. Louis Blues - Weary Yodelin' Blues
Roy Evans
- 225.
Fresno Blues
Anonymous, Johnnie Crockett, Albert Crockett
- 226.
Mean Low Blues
Studio pianist, James Simons
- 227.
Georgia Bound
Blind Blake
- 228.
If I Call You Mama
Luke Jordan
- 229.
Just Blues
Al Duffy, Andy Sannella, Memphis Jazzers
- 230.
Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues
Roosevelt Sykes, Blind Teddy Darby
- 231.
New York Blues
Will Ezell, Roosevelt Graves
- 232.
Guitar Blues
Eddie Lang, Lonnie Johnson
- 233.
Avenue Strut
Herve Duerson
- 234.
Slum Gullion Stomp
Charles "Cow Cow" Davenport
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