Columbia Records 78 by the Charleston Chasers with additional lyrics by Jack Teagarden and Glenn Miller, 1931First eight bars of the jazz standard "Basin Street Blues" on tenor sax
"Basin Street Blues" is a song often performed by Dixieland jazz bands, written by Spencer Williams in 1928 and recorded that year by Louis Armstrong.[1] The verse with the lyric "Won't you come along with me / To the Mississippi..." was later added by Glenn Miller and Jack Teagarden.
The Basin Street of the title refers to the main street of Storyville, the red-light district of early 20th-century New Orleans, north of the French Quarter. It became a red light district in 1897.[2]
"BasinStreetBlues" is a song often performed by Dixieland jazz bands, written by Spencer Williams in 1928 and recorded that year by Louis Armstrong....
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songs "BasinStreetBlues", "I Ain't Got Nobody", "Royal Garden Blues", "I've Found a New Baby", "Everybody Loves My Baby", "Tishomingo Blues", and many...
Miller is credited with writing an additional verse for the song "BasinStreetBlues" in 1931, written in 1928 by Spencer Williams. Miller arranged the...
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Wills largely sang blues and sentimental ballads. "One Star Rag", "Rat Cheese Under the Hill", "Take Me Back to Tulsa", "BasinStreetBlues", "Steel Guitar...
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stroke due to diabetes. Waller's first recordings, "Muscle Shoals Blues" and "Birmingham Blues", were made in October 1922 for Okeh Records. That year, he also...
Home", written in 1919 and a hit for Bessie Smith in 1923, while "BasinStreetBlues" had been introduced by Louis Armstrong in 1928. Neither features...
recording with Horace Silver revived the tune as a jazz standard. "BasinStreetBlues" is a blues song written by Spencer Williams and introduced by Louis Armstrong...
Don't Mean a Thing", "Jeepers Creepers", "Three Little Fishies", and "BasinStreetBlues".[citation needed] During this era, there was also a brief time when...
collaborated to provide lyrics and a verse to Spencer Williams' "BasinStreetBlues", which in that amended form became one of the numbers that Teagarden...
their first recordings for Victor Records in 1925, which included "Cryin' Blues", wherein Connee is featured singing in the style of her early influence...
songwriting that was the music publishers' row on New York's West 28th Street)". Chilton adds that these songs "became the core repertoire of jazz musicians"...
early jazz, of which "West End Blues" is arguably the best known. Other important recordings include "BasinStreetBlues", "Tight Like This", "Saint James...
recording with Horace Silver revived the tune as a jazz standard. "BasinStreetBlues" is a blues song written by Spencer Williams and introduced by Louis Armstrong...
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