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Saint Louis Blues (song)
"
Saint Louis Blues
" is a
popular
American
song composed by
W. C. Handy
in the
blues
style and published in September 1914. It remains a fundamental part of
jazz
musicians' repertoire. It was also one of the first blues songs to succeed as a
pop song
. It has been performed by numerous musicians of all styles from
Louis Armstrong
and
Bessie Smith
to
Count Basie
,
Glenn Miller
,
Guy Lombardo
, and the
Boston Pops Orchestra
. It has been called "the jazzman's
Hamlet
".
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