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Artist: Langston Hughes Title: The Weary Blues Label:   MGM Country: USA Catalogue: E3697 Date: Jul 1958 Format: LP Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Langston Hughes	Blues Montage Parts I, II and III		Rate
A2	Langston Hughes	Opening Blues		Rate
A3	Langston Hughes	Blues Montage		Rate
A4	Langston Hughes	Commercial Theatre		Rate
A5	Langston Hughes	Morning After		Rate
A6	Langston Hughes	Could Be		Rate
A7	Langston Hughes	Testament		Rate
B1	Langston Hughes	Consider Me		Rate
B2	Langston Hughes	The Stranger		Rate
B3	Langston Hughes	Midnight Stroll		Rate
B4	Langston Hughes	Backstage		Rate
B5	Langston Hughes	Dream Montage		Rate
B6	Langston Hughes	Weird Nightmare		Rate
B7	Langston Hughes	Double G Train		Rate
B8	Langston Hughes	Jump Monk		Rate

Notes

James "Langston" Hughes was a renowned poet whose maternal grandmother had instilled everlasting racial pride despite and had imbued him a duty to help the African-American race due to extreme racial segregation that had been re-established during the presidential years of Woodrow Wilson.

Interestingly, the Weary Blues was Mr. Hughes' first book of poetry that contained his signature poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." By means of this MGM disc, Mr. Hughes recites various sections of poems while jazz spectacular Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather play the music in the background to add a relaxing and more enthusiastic type of inspiration.

Though this disc did not sell well, Mr. Hughes still gained more prominence thru the guidance of various New York publishers and had internationally traveled to inspire people never to quit despite the challenges and difficulties might be.

Lastly, this was the second MGM disc of 33.33 rpm thru which the front jacket had indicated the catalog ID # to the right of the new MGM logo which was in the structure of the letters b and q which intersected and formed a circle thru which a spiral and a bullseye dot were enclosed and thru which a forward slash divided the b and q letters by means of the bullseye dot.

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