Some of our Favorite WC Handy Blues
Memphis Blues
Original version
Modern rendition
St. Louis Blues
Benny Goodman’s St. Louis Blues – swing style
Bessie Smith’s St. Louis Blues
Chuck Berry’s rock and roll version of St. Louis Blues
Machito’s Mambo version of St. Louis Blues
Louis Armstrong’s St. Louis Blues
W. C. Handy and Orchestra St. Louis Blues
Old Mississippi Blues
Louis Armstrong
Yellow Dog Blues
Bessie Smith’s Yellow Dog Blues
Crying Sam Collin’s version of Yellow Dog Blues
Joe Turner Blues
Mamie Webster’s Joe Turner Blues (rock-jazz)
Hesitating Blues
Louis Armstrong’s Hesitating Blues
Beale St. Blues
Ella Fitzgerald’s Beale St. Blues
Hooking Cow Blues
Wilbur Sweatman’s Hooking Cow Blues
Long Gone Blues
Ertha Kitt’s “Long Gone Blues”
Loveless Love
Loveless Love by Sidney Bechet
Aunt Hagar’s Blues
Aunt Hagar’s Blues
Jim Cullum’s Riverwalk Jazz Band
Jack Teagarden “Aunt Hagar’s Blues”
John Henry Blues
Henry Levine and NBC Dixieland Jazz group: John Henry Blues
Dixie Trio – Al Bernard: John Henry Blues
Harlem Blues
Nat King Cole “Harlem Blues”
Mamie Webster “Harlem Blues”
Atlanta Blues
Eddie Condon & James P. Johnson “Atlanta Blues”
Basement Blues
Sidney Bechet and Noble Sissle Orchestra “The Basement Blues”
Wall Street Blues
Lee Hunter “Wall Street Blues”
The Chicago Gouge
Faye Barns “The Chicago Gouge”
The Gouge of Armour Avenue
Faye Barns “The Gouge of Armour Avenue”
Fletcher Henderson “The Gouge of Armour Avenue”
Chantez Les Bas
Nat King Cole “Chantez Les Bas”
Videos
Excerpts from Completed Documentary by Joanne Fish, 2016, with permission.