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Artist:Prince's Band
Label:  Columbia
Country:USA
Catalogue:A5772
Date:Feb 1916
Format:12"
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Community: 2 Own
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
APrince's BandSt. Louis BluesW. C. HandyRate
BPrince's BandHesitating BluesW. C. HandyRate


Notes

A: Recorded Jan 3, 1916, mx: 37476-3
B: Recorded Nov 2, 1915, mx: 37439-2

Label Printing Codes:
1920 repress: EW (= May 1920).

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cyeaman SUBS
8th Mar 2024
 Published in 1914, St. Louis Blues was recorded at least 165 times between 1916 - 1942. This version by Prince's Band was the first, but which was "the best"? Bessie Smith's 1925 rendition is legendary, and was a watershed event in the life of this tune. Although the song had been recorded just over a dozen times during the first decade since its publication, fourteen new versions appeared in 1926 alone, and between six and fourteen new renditions would be recorded each year until the early 1940s, with the exception of the early Depression years of 1930-33. 1935 was a banner year, in which 20 new recordings of St. Louis Blues were issued.
 
 
BigBadBluesMan
8th Mar 2017
 
 
 
BigBadBluesMan
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fixbutte
27th Feb 2015
 About 10 records moved from the now defunct Columbia Record label to just Columbia where they belong, this one among them. Also replaced the previous main label image that is over-cropped. It is the first pressing label from 1916 though, the clean current main label was not introduced before 1917. (Note the jump in prices from the 'Magic Notes' label - US $1.00, CAN $1.25, to the 'gold band' label - US $1.25, CAN $1.50).

This was the first-ever recorded version of W. C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues", although as an instrumental version without Handy's lyrics. The record has also one of the first recorded versions of "Hesitating Blues" which, though credited to Handy, is actually a traditional. (A better-known version from the same period with different lyrics, titled "Hesitation Blues", is credited to Smythe, Middleton and Gillham.)

This was a 12" record, released in the A5000 series. Quote David A. Jasen's Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, "The trouble with the Prince recordings [was] that they were issued on twelve-inch 78 rpm discs, making them more expensive to purchase and an awkward size to store (most pop recordings were on ten-inch discs)."
 

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