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"Mercury Blues" is a song written by rural blues musician K. C. Douglas and Robert Geddins, and first recorded by Douglas in 1948. [1] The song, originally titled " Mercury Boogie ," pays homage to the American automobile marque , which ended production in 2010.
Douglas was influenced by Tommy Johnson, [1] who he had worked with in the Jackson, Mississippi area in the early 1940s, [2] and whose "Canned Heat Blues" he adapted on his albums, A Dead Beat Guitar and the Mississippi Blues and Big Road Blues. The K. C. Douglas Trio's first recording was "Mercury Boogie" (later renamed "Mercury Blues"), in ...
Robert L. Geddins (February 6, 1913 – February 16, 1991) [1] was an American San Francisco Bay Area blues and rhythm and blues musician [2] and record producer. [3]Geddins was born in Highbank, Texas, United States, a town ten miles south of Marlin, who came to Oakland, California during World War II, and worked there until his death of liver cancer in 1991, ten days after his 78th birthday.
Mercury [21] "My Melancholy Blues" News of the World: 1977 Mercury Mercury [3] ... Mercury Queen: Written between 1968 and 1970 during the days of Smile, ...
Although credited to the whole band, it was largely written by their drummer Roger Taylor, and is the eighth track on the band's 1991 album Innuendo. [ 1 ] The song was released as a single in the United States on Freddie Mercury 's 45th birthday, 5 September 1991, and as double A-side single in Ireland and the United Kingdom on 9 December, in ...
Perhaps as early as 1908, [1] blues pioneer Charley Patton wrote a song called "Mississippi Boweevil Blues" and recorded it in July 1929 (as "The Masked Marvel") for Paramount Records. Some of the lyrics are similar to "Boll Weevil," describing the first time and "the next time" the narrator saw the boll weevil and making reference to the ...
Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) [1] [2] was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. A rockabilly great and pioneer of rock and roll, he began his recording career at the Sun Studio, in Memphis in 1954.
Holman and White also collaborated on a 1950 release by Mercury Records. White is also credited with having written new words and music that have subsequently been popularized in the versions made by many other later artists. White learned the song from a "white hillbilly singer", who might have been Ashley, in North Carolina in 1923–1924. [5]