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  • St. Louis Blues
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  • Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
  • Blues songs
  • Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients
  • Nat King Cole songs
  • Songs about the United States
  • Louis Armstrong songs
  • 1910s jazz standards
  • Jazz compositions in G major
  • Billie Holiday songs
  • Mildred Bailey songs
  • Benny Goodman songs
  • Lena Horne songs
  • Bessie Smith songs
  • Cab Calloway songs
  • Songs with music by W. C. Handy
  • 1914 songs
  • LaVern Baker songs
  • Music of St. Louis, Missouri
  • Original Dixieland Jass Band songs
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  • %22Saint Louis Blues%22 is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style. 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 %22the jazzman's Hamlet%22. Published in September 1914 by Handy's own company, it later gained such popularity that it inspired the dance step the %22foxtrot%22.The version with Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong on cornet was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1993. The 1929 version by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra (with Henry %22Red%22 Allen) was inducted in 2008.
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  • W. C. Handy
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