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Collection
Sheet Music

Item ID
000019-TENN

Accession Number
03-023 Mitchell

Title
Beale Street Blues

Creator
Handy, W.C.

Additional Author
Katherine Handy Lewis, prf.

Date
1916
1917
1944

Publisher
Handy Brothers Music Co., Inc.

Place of Publication
New York, NY

Subject
Blues music
Tennessee Songs and music

Physical Description
4 pp.

Location
TENN 001

Notes
Small sheet music. OCLC: 29506684. Blue cover with photo of Katherine Handy Lewis. Back cover has excerpt from "The Hesitating Blues"and a photo of Eartha Kitt.

First Line
I've seen the lights of gay Broadway, Old Market Street down by the Frisco Bay,

Notation
Standard

RecordID
91079

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Item ID
000021-TENN

Accession Number
03-023 Mitchell

Title
Beale Street Blues

Creator
Handy, W.C.
F. Henri Klickmannarr.

Date
1917
1927

Publisher
Alfred & Company Music Publishers

Place of Publication
New York, NY

Subject
Blues music
Saxophone music
Tennessee Songs and music

Physical Description
1 vocal score (4 p.) : 31 cm ; V

Location
TENN 001

Notes
Small sheet music. OCLC: 29506684. Green cover has drawing of Handy. Back cover lists other sheet music from publisher.
1 page: b-flat tenor sax; 1 page: e-flat alto sax; 4 pp.: Piano accompaniment in C.

First Line
[no words]

Notation
Standard

RecordID
91080

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Song Theme
Tennessee Places

Collection
Sheet Music

Item ID
000022-TENN

Accession Number
03-023 Mitchell

Title
Beale Street Blues

Creator
Handy, W.C.

Additional Author
Gilda Gray, prf.

Date
1917

Publisher
Handy Brothers Music Co., Inc.

Place of Publication
New York, NY

Subject
Blues music
Tennessee Songs and music

Physical Description
1 vocal score (4 p.) : 31 cm ; V

Location
TENN 001

Notes
Small sheet music. OCLC: 29506684. Cover is white with red border; has photo of Gilda Gray (not the same as on 000018-TENN). Back has description of Handy's book "Blues, an Anthology," along with a photo of a painting of a jazz orchestra.

First Line
I've seen the lights of gay Broadway, Old Market Street down by the Frisco Bay,

Notation
Standard

RecordID
91081

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Collection
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Item ID
000023-TENN

Accession Number
03-023 Mitchell

Title
Beale Street Blues

Creator
Handy, W.C.

Date
1916
1917
1944
1945

Publisher
Handy Brothers Music Co., Inc.

Place of Publication
New York, NY

Subject
Motion picture music
Blues music
Tennessee Songs and music
African American entertainers.

Physical Description
4 pp.

Location
TENN 001

Series
"St. Louis Blues"

Notes
Small sheet music. OCLC: 29506684. Cover has black and white photos (Ella Fitzgerald; Eartha Kitt with Nat King Cole and jazz combo). Back cover has excerpt from "Yellow Dog Blues" and album cover photo of Nat King Cole.

First Line
I've seen the lights of gay Broadway, Old Market Street down by the Frisco Bay,

Notation
Standard

RecordID
91082

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Collection
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Item ID
000024-TENN

Accession Number
03-023 Mitchell

Title
Beale Street Blues

Creator
Handy, W.C.

Additional Author
Louis Armstrong, prf.

Date
1916
1917
1944
1945

Publisher
Handy Brothers Music Co., Inc.

Place of Publication
New York, NY

Subject
Blues music
Tennessee Songs and music

Physical Description
4 pp.

Location
TENN 001

Notes
Small sheet music. OCLC: 29506684. Cover is blue, with several photos of Louis Armstrong. Back cover has other blues sheet music available.

First Line
I've seen the lights of gay Broadway, Old Market Street down by the Frisco Bay,

Notation
Standard

RecordID
91083

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Collection
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Item ID
000025-TENN

Accession Number
03-023 Mitchell

Title
Beale Street Blues

Creator
Handy, W.C.

Date
1916
1917
1944
1945

Publisher
Handy Brothers Music Co., Inc.

Place of Publication
New York, NY

Subject
Blues music
Tennessee Songs and music

Physical Description
4 pp.

Location
TENN 001

Notes
Small sheet music. OCLC: 29506684. Cover is blue with four photos, courtesy of "The Commercial Appeal," from the dedication of Handy Square, March 29, 1931. (There is a duplicate copy in plastic sleeve, not cataloged.)

First Line
I've seen the lights of gay Broadway, Old Market Street down by the Frisco Bay,

Notation
Standard

RecordID
91084

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Song Theme
Tennessee Places

Collection
Sheet Music

Item ID
000018-TENN

Accession Number
03-023 Mitchell

Title
Beale Street (Blues)

Creator
Handy, W.C.

Additional Author
Gilda Gray, prf.

Date
1917

Publisher
Pace & Handy Music Co., Inc.

Place of Publication
New York, NY

Subject
Blues music
Tennessee Songs and music

Physical Description
1 vocal score (4 p.) : 31 cm ; V

Location
TENN 001

Series
Shubert's Gaieties of 1919

Notes
Small sheet music. OCLC: 29506684. Cover is light tan in color, with a black border; has photo of Miss Gilda Gray. Back cover has excerpt from "Joe Turner Blues."

First Line
I've seen the lights of gay Broadway, Old Market Street down by the Frisco Bay,

Notation
Standard

RecordID
91196

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Song Theme
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Collection
Sheet Music

Item ID
000020-TENN

Accession Number
03-023 Mitchell

Title
Beale Street Blues

Creator
Handy, W.C.

Additional Author
Benny Goodman and his orchestra, prf.

Date
1917

Publisher
Pace & Handy Music Co.

Place of Publication
New York, NY

Subject
Blues music
Tennessee Songs and music

Physical Description
1 vocal score (4 p.) : 31 cm ; V

Location
TENN 001

Notes
Small sheet music. OCLC: 29506684. Blue cover has photo of Benny Goodman. Back cover lists other sheet music (blues, spirituals) from publisher.

First Line
I've seen the lights of gay Broadway, Old Market Street down by the Frisco Bay,

Notation
Standard

RecordID
91197