Track Listing

1. Home Again Blues - The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
2. The Dallas Blues - Marie Cahill
3. Alcoholic Blues - Irving Kaufman
4. Boll Weevil Blues - Vernon Dalhart/Ed Smalle
5. Memphis Blues - Al Bernard
6. Homesickness Blues - Nora Bayes
7. Frankie & Johnnie - Al Bernard
8. If Your Good Man Quits You - Viola McCoy/F. Henderson's Jazz Five
9. I've Got the 'Yes! We Have No Bananas' Blues - Belle Baker
10. Jubilee Blues - Belle Baker
11. Railroad Blues - Trixie Smith/Louis Armstrong
12. St. Louis Blues - Bessie Smith/Louis Armstrong
13. Take It 'Cause It's All Yours - Edith Wilson/Johnny Dunn's Jazz Hounds
14. Down Where They Play the Blues - Mary Stafford & Her Jazz Band
15. Ain't Givin' Nothin' Away - Southern Negro Quartet
16. I Don't Let No One Man Worry Me - Ethel Ridley
17. Chinese Blues - Irving Kaufman
18. I You Do-What I Do - Eddie Cantor /The Georgians

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #345584 in Music
• Released on: 1994-06-28
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Prior to 1912, there had only been a handful of compositions with "blues" in the title. Songs like "The Richmond Blues" were actually marches and 'blue' was merely the color of a uniform. The first so-called 'blues' was "Baby Seals Blues," which appeared in St.Louis on August 3, 1912. The next, "Dallas Blues," was published in Oklahoma City on September 6, 1912. The third published blues song was Handy's "Memphis Blues," published in Memphis on September 28, 1912. After W.C.Handy's publication of the "St.Louis Blues" in 1914, the whole world wend 'blues crazy.' The era of "Tin Pan Alley Blues" was born. New York City's Tin Pan Alley was the center for hundreds of publishing companies and songwriters looking to jump on the blues bandwagon. Just about every composer of the day, including W.C.Handy, Irving Berlin, Clarence Williams and George Gershwin, was looking for the next 'blues hit.' Over the next year, almost every town in the South was endowed with its ow! n private blues. By 1915, composers were tagging the word 'blues' to every conceivable subject, from the "Boll Weevil Blues" to "Chinese Blues" and everything in between. The first wave of the blues was born.

Customer Reviews

Tin Pan Alley Blues Collection
Where did they get this title? I don't think it is representing the "Tin Pan Alley" genre, very well anyway. If you want to hear a better sampling, listen to Albert King or Stevie Ray Vaughn's version of "Tin Pan Alley" (Couldn't Stand the Weather #7). I grew up around the blues in Memphis, Tn., and I'm tolerant of many personal styles. The 4 samples I listened to didn't do much for me. You be the judge! Thanx,