[78-L] St Louis Blues?

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Fri Apr 10 19:27:12 PDT 2009


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>I just got a very enjoyable 12"  Columbia of Prince's Band playing  the St.
> Louis Blues...recorded in December of 1915.
>
> I know this is a pretty early record of the tune...can anyone tell me the
> earliest recorded versions?  I have an Ernest Hare Gennett vocal of it 
> from
> 1919...there must be earlier vocal versions as well but I don't know what
> they are.
>
IIRC, the earliest version appeared on Victor...?!

...stevenc 




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