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"Singing the Blues" is a popular song composed by Melvin Endsley and published in 1956. The highest-charting version was by Guy Mitchell and the first recording of the song was by Marty Robbins . It is not related to the 1920 jazz song " Singin' the Blues " recorded by Frank Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke in 1927.
Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
The Two Gospel Keys recorded "You've Got to Move", which was released on a 78-rpm record in 1948. [1] Emma Daniels (vocals and guitar) and Mother Sally Jones (vocals and tambourine) comprised the gospel music duo. [2]
Virginia Liston (née Crawford; c. 1890 – June 1932) [2] was an American classic female blues and jazz singer. She spent most of her career in vaudeville. [1] She performed with her husband, Samuel H. Gray, as Liston and Liston.
Traditional blues verses in folk-music tradition have also been called floating lyrics or maverick stanzas.Floating lyrics have been described as “lines that have circulated so long in folk communities that tradition-steeped singers call them instantly to mind and rearrange them constantly, and often unconsciously, to suit their personal and community aesthetics”.
You've Always Got the Blues is a 1988 album by Kate Ceberano and Wendy Matthews recorded as the soundtrack for the ABC TV series Stringer. [1] The album is primarily composed of duets performed by Ceberano and Matthews but also features Joy Smithers and Martin Armiger. According to Ceberano's 2014 autobiography, she and Matthews recorded the ...
The Meaning of the Blues; P. ... She's Got the Rhythm (And I Got the Blues) Singin' the Blues (Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young, Con Conrad and J. R. Robinson song)
"Singing in Viet Nam Talking Blues" (or "Singin' in Viet Nam Talkin' Blues") is a song written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash. Released in May 1971 [3] [4] as the second single (Columbia 4-45393, with "You've Got a New Light Shining" on the opposite side) [5] from Cash's that year's album Man in Black, [6] the song reached #18 on U.S. Billboard 's country chart [7] and #124 on ...