[78-L] St Louis Blues?

[Taylor Bowie]

Hmm...wonder what it meant to"reach #4" in those days?  How many copies were 
selling?

Maybe I just hadn't noticed it before,   as in my early days of collecting I 
didn't pay much attention to 12" records (yes,  that was pretty stoopid on 
my part).

Anyone else have any personal observations about the scarcity (or not) of 
this Prince's record of St. Louis Blues?

Taylor




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RAY KILCOYNE" <kil at roadrunner.com>
To: <78-l at 78online.com>
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] St Louis Blues?


> From: "Taylor Bowie"
>>  I'm really surprised that the Prince
>> is the first record of the song...I'm not certain but I think it was
>> published two or three years before that.  Is it possible that record
>> companies didn't quickly catch on as to the merit of the thing?  But at 
>> the
>> same time I don't think the Prince must have sold all the well,  as I'd
>> never before seen it in 40+ years of poking through stacks and boxes of 
>> 78s.
>>
>
> We all have our doubts about Whitburn and Wikipedia, but for what it's 
> worth, Whitburn lists ST. LOUIS BLUES by Prince as reaching #4 in 
> popularity, charting on 5/13/16, which follows with the recording date of 
> December 1915.
>
> The Wikipedia article says it was published in September of 1914.  The 
> year is confimed by David Ewen in his book, "American Popular Songs".
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Blues_(song)
>
> Ewen also says it was published by Handy's own company, but didn't start 
> to catch on at first until he moved his company to NYC.
> RayK
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