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"Black and Blue" debuted in the Broadway musical Hot Chocolates (1929), sung by Edith Wilson. Razaf biographer Barry Singer recounts that the lyricist was coerced into writing the song (with music by Waller) by the show's financier, New York mobster Dutch Schultz, though Razaf subverted Schultz's directive that it be a comedic number: [4]
Black and Blue (Van Halen song) " Black and Blue " is a song by American rock band Van Halen from their 1988 album OU812. It was the first single released from the album, peaking at number 34 on the Billboard Hot 100 [1] and at number 1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, [2] Cash Box called it a "power-rocker that nearly sizzles off the ...
Blue on Black. from the album Trouble Is... " Blue on Black " is a song by American blues rock group Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band. Written by Shepherd with Mark Selby and Tia Sillers, it was originally released on their second studio album, Trouble Is... (1997). In 1998, the song was released as a single and reached the top position on the US ...
Jimmy Crack Corn. " Jimmy Crack Corn " or " Blue-Tail Fly " is an American song, a mock-elegy or pseudo-lament, which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and ...
Memory Motel. " Memory Motel " is a ballad song from English rock band the Rolling Stones ' 1976 album Black and Blue. The song is credited to singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards (named Richard at the time). It's one of the few which feature both members sharing lead vocals. The song is more than seven minutes long, one of the ...
Nick Raskulinecz, Alice in Chains. " Black Gives Way to Blue " is a song by American rock band Alice in Chains, and the last track on their 2009 studio album of the same name. [4] Written and sung by guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell, it features Elton John on piano. The song is a tribute to the band's late lead singer, Layne Staley, who died ...
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954). Written from the context of African Americans in the late 19th century, the hymn is a prayer of thanksgiving to God as well as a prayer for faithfulness and freedom, with imagery that evokes the biblical Exodus from slavery to the freedom ...
Released: June 22, 2010[ 5] Black Gives Way to Blue is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Alice in Chains, released on September 29, 2009, on the 17th anniversary of the release of their second album, Dirt. [ 1] It is their first record without original lead singer Layne Staley, who died in 2002, and their first album with new ...