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"I Got the Blues" by Anthony Maggio's
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"Oh, You Beautiful Doll" by Tin Pan Alley
"Oh, You Beautiful Doll", a Tin Pan Alley song whose first verse is twelve-bar blues, in 1911 -
"Dallas Blues" by Hart Wand
"Dallas Blues", written by Hart Wand, March 1912 -
"Baby Seals Blues" by Arthur "Baby" Seales
"Baby Seals Blues" (August 1912), a vaudeville tune written by Arthur "Baby" Seales, -
"The Memphis Blues" by W.C. Handy
"The Memphis Blues", written by W.C. Handy (September 1912) -
"Jelly Roll Blues" by Jelly Roll Morton
"Original Jelly Roll Blues", usually shortened to and known as "Jelly Roll Blues", is an early jazz fox-trot composed by Jelly Roll Morton. He recorded it first as a piano solo in Richmond, Indiana, in 1924. -
"Crazy Blues" Mamie Smith's
The first recording by an African American singer was Mamie Smith's 1920 rendition of Perry Bradford's "Crazy Blues". -
"Kind Hearted Woman Blues" by Robert Johnson
"Kind Hearted Woman Blues" is a blues song recorded on November 23, 1936 in San Antonio, Texas, by legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. This was the first song that Johnson recorded, and it was carefully crafted in imitation of recent hit records. It was composed as if in answer to "Cruel Hearted Woman Blues" by Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton). "Kind Hearted Woman Blues"
(Robert Johnson)
March 1937. Vocation
Recorded November 23, 1936, San Antonio, Texas
