A treasury of the blues : complete words and music of 67 great songs from Memphis blues to the present day / edited by W.C. Handy ; with an historical and critical text by Abbe Niles ; with pictures by Miguel Covarrubias.
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| Language: | English |
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[New York?] :
C. Boni : Distributed by Simon and Schuster,
©1949.
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Table of Contents:
- Train's a-coming
- Let us cheer the weary traveller
- Somebody's wrong about dis Bible
- Joe Jacobs
- Goin' to see my Sarah
- Sail away, ladies
- - Come on, Eph!
- Juba
- East St. Louis
- A typical stomp
- Careless love
- Ever after on
- Vesta and Mattie's blues
- Got no mo' home dan a dog
- Friendless blues
- The Memphis blues
- Dallas blues
- The jogo blues
- St. Louis blues
- Yellow dog blues
- The long lost blues
- Florida blues
- Kansas City
- The hesitating blues
- Joe Turner blues
- The snakey blues
- Rice Hotel blues
- Beale Street blues
- Tishomingo blues
- Barnyard blues (Livery stable blues)
- Hooking cow blues
- West Texas blues
- Goin' down that long long lonesome road
- Royal Garden blues
- Aunt Hagar's children
- Loveless love
- You'll think of me
- Sundown blues
- Gulf Coast blues
- The basement blues
- Weeping willow blues (after Bessie Smith)
- Banjo blues
- Mississippi blues (Bamville croon)
- Mountain top blues (Blue mama's suicide wail)
- Rock pile blues (Mama's prison yard blues)
- Deep river blues
- The blues I've got
- Basin Street blues
- Beat me daddy, eight to the bar
- Boogie-woogie on St. Louis blues
- Baby seals blues
- Chinese blues
- Ole Miss
- Homesickness blues (excerpt)
- Long gone
- The schoolhouse blues
- Harlem blues
- John Henry blues
- Atlanta blues (Make me one pallet on your floor)
- The Chicago gouge
- The half of it, dearie, blues
- Chantez les bas
- Willow, weep for me
- Hong Kong blues
- Krazy kat ballet (excerpt)
- Rhapsody in blue (excerpt) ; Concerto in F (excerpt) / George Gershwin.