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Kansas Joe McCoy, Herb Morand. " Why Don't You Do Right? " (originally recorded as " Weed Smoker's Dream " in 1936) is an American blues and jazz -influenced pop song usually credited to Kansas Joe McCoy. [1] A minor key twelve-bar blues with a few chord substitutions, it is considered a classic "woman's blues" song and has become a standard.
The Blues for Alice changes, Bird changes, Bird Blues, or New York Blues changes, is a chord progression, often named after Charlie Parker ("Bird"), which is a variation of the twelve-bar blues . The progression uses a series of sequential ii–V or secondary ii–V progressions, and has been used in pieces such as Parker's "Blues for Alice".
"Driftin' Blues" or "Drifting Blues" is a blues standard, recorded by Johnny Moore's Three Blazers in 1945. The song is a slow blues and features Charles Brown 's smooth, soulful vocals and piano. It was one of the biggest blues hits of the 1940s and "helped define the burgeoning postwar West Coast blues style". [1] "
Orange Blossom Special (song) "Orange Blossom Special" is a fiddle tune about the luxury passenger train of the same name. The song was written by Ervin T. Rouse (1917–1981) in 1938 and was first recorded by Rouse and his brother Gordon in 1939. Often called simply "The Special" or "OBS", the song is commonly referred to as "the fiddle player ...
Label. Brunswick. Composer (s) Joe "King" Oliver. " West End Blues " is a multi-strain twelve-bar blues composition by Joe "King" Oliver. It is most commonly performed as an instrumental, although it has lyrics added by Clarence Williams . King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators made the first recording for Brunswick Records on June 11, 1928. [1]
W. C. Handy. William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was an American composer and musician who referred to himself as the Father of the Blues. [1] [2] He was one of the most influential songwriters in the United States. [3] One of many musicians who played the distinctively American blues music, Handy did not create the ...
Hi-Heel Sneakers. " Hi-Heel Sneakers " (often also spelled "High Heel Sneakers") is a blues song written and recorded by Tommy Tucker in 1963. Blues writer Mary Katherine Aldin describes it as an uptempo twelve-bar blues, with "a spare, lilting musical framework", and a strong vocal. [2] The song's rhythmic approach has also been compared to ...
Bob Dylan. Producer (s) Bob Johnston. " Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues " is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan. It was originally recorded on August 2, 1965, and released on the album Highway 61 Revisited. The song was later released on the compilation album Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II and as two separate live versions recorded at ...