"The Memphis Blues"
Musical composition
By: W.C. Handy
Date: 1912
Source: Handy, William Christopher. "The Memphis Blues." New York: Joe Morris Music Co., 1912. Historic American Sheet Music: 1850–1920. American Memory digital primary source collection, Library of Congress. Available online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncdhtml/hasmhome.html; website home page: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem (accessed May 12, 2003).
About the Author: William Christopher Handy (1873–1958) was born in Florence, Alabama. Handy showed musical talent at an early age, and he took cornet lessons. As a teenager, he left home to join a minstrel show. As a performer, band-leader, and songwriter, Handy rose to musical prominence. Although he did not invent the blues, his 1912 composition "Memphis...
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