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Copyright date
September 11, 1914
Language
English
ISWC
T-914.755.203-2 ISWC
Comments
One of the most famous and widely recorded early blues songs. According to ASCAP it is "the most recorded song of the first half of the 20th Century". It is supposedly based on Handy’s experiences being penniless and sleeping on the streets of St. Louis in 1892.
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i February 1916 First recording on December 18, 1915
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i December 1916 Medley
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i December 1926
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i The New St. Louis Blues Ted Lewis 1926 Unverified
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i September 1956
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i St. Louis Blues The Alex Kallao Trio (Alex Kallao) 1957 Unverified
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i St. Louis Blues The Merri-Men 1960 Unverified
i July 1961
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i Saint Louis Blues Steve Angrum with Kid Sheik's Storyville Ramblers (Kid Sheik) 1961 Unverified
i St. Louis Blues Garth Young And His Quartet (Garth Young) 1961 Unverified
i January 1962
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i March 1962
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i September 1962
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i 1962 Medley
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i St. Louis Blues March Paul Taubman 1962 Unverified
i St. Louis Blues Jacques Denjean Et Son Grand Orchestre De Jazz (Jacques Denjean) 1962 Unverified
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i St. Louis Blues Pablo Beltrán Ruiz and His Orchestra (Pablo Beltrán Ruiz) 1964 Unverified
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i St. Louis Blues Kurt Edelhagen (Kurt Edelhagen) 1965 Unverified
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i June 1969
i 1969 Released more than 10 years after its recording
i 1969
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i St. Louis Blues Ben Webster And The Frans Wieringa Trio (Ben Webster) 1969 Unverified
i June 1970
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i St. Louis Blues Alex Scorier 1971 Unverified
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i St. Louis Blues Günter Noris Und Die Big Band Der Bundeswehr (Günter Noris) 1975 Unverified
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i 1976 Medley
i St. Louis Blues Michael Naura Quintett (Michael Naura) 1976 Unverified
i St. Louis Blues Lawrence Welk - Henry Cuesta (Lawrence Welk) 1976 Unverified
i May 22, 1977
i November 1977
i 1977 Released more than 10 years after its recording
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i December 1978
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i St. Louis Blues Rundfunk-Tanzorchester Berlin (Rundfunk-Tanzorchester Berlin) 1978 Unverified
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i St. Louis Blues Jim Roberts [US2] (Jim Roberts [US2]) 1979 Unverified
i St. Louis Blues Rock Ferrante 1979 Unverified
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i 1982 Medley
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i March 1983
i 1983 Released more than 10 years after its recording
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i 1983
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i 1983
i St. Louis Blues Yoshitaka Akimitsu 1983 Unverified
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i St. Louis Blues Side Street Strutters 1984 Unverified
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i September 1988
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i May 25, 1990
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i February 25, 1992
i December 8, 1992
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i 1992
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i 1992
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i 1992
i Boogie Woogie On St. Louis Blues Paul Kuhn & SDR Big Band 1992 Unverified
i St. Louis Blues Rhapsody In Red With The Cotton Club Orchestra (Australian Cotton Club Orchestra) 1992 Unverified
i December 1993
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i May 1996
i October 15, 1996
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i 1996 Released more than 10 years after its recording
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i St. Louis Blues Dixie Bubbles 1996 Unverified
i January 23, 1997
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i St. Louis Blues James Morrison [AU] 1998 Unverified
i May 11, 1999
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i December 14, 1999
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i 1999 Released more than 10 years after its recording
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i St. Louis Blues The Bourbon Street Stompers [DE] 1999 Unverified
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i St. Louis Blues Mike Auldridge 2000 Unverified
i St. Louis Blues Phil Mason's New Orleans All-Stars 2000 Unverified
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i January 26, 2002
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i St. Louis Blues Cuff Billett And Tony Pyke (Cuff Billett) 2003 Unverified
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i St. Louis Blues Steve Jones [US] November 2004 Unverified
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i St. Louis Blues Carolina Brass 2004 Unverified
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i November 20, 2006
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i March 13, 2007
i St. Louis Blues The Cook Trio March 27, 2007 Unverified
i June 2007 Live
i St. Louis Blues Andy Sherwood July 2007 Unverified
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i January 25, 2008
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i 2008
i St. Louis Blues The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra 2008 Unverified
i February 2009
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i 2009 Released more than 10 years after its recording
i April 13, 2010
i September 14, 2010
i October 1, 2010 Live
i 2010 Live
i 2010
i 2010 Live
i August 2, 2011
i September 13, 2011
i November 1, 2011
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i 2011
i 2011
i April 2012
i May 12, 2012
i July 2012
i November 2012 Live
i August 2013
i 2013
i 2013
i February 2014
i Saint Louis Blues Norbert Susemihl (Norbert Susemihl) September 15, 2014 Unverified
i December 9, 2014 Released more than 10 years after its recording
i St. Louis Blues The Phil Brown Swingtet 2014 Unverified
i April 2015 Live
i August 28, 2015
i 2015 Live
i August 11, 2016
i 2016
i 2016
i June 2017
i September 2017
i St. Louis Blues Hot Club of Hawthorne October 2017 Unverified
i 2017
i 2017
i June 2018
i August 2, 2018
i November 10, 2018
i St. Louis Blues Hot Swing Sextet 2018 Unverified
i March 2019
i May 2019
i June 8, 2020
i July 2020 Live
i October 24, 2020 Live
i St. Louis Blues Sr. Swing 2021 Unverified
i St. Louis Blues Ruud Breuls / Simon Rigter Quintet 2021 Unverified
i 2023

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Title Performer Release date Info
February 1918
March 1919
1919
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1921
1922
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1925
(Virginia Childs) December 1926
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1927
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1935
St. Louis Blues The Four Crotchets 1935 Unverified
June 1937
1937
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December 1954
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1954
1954
St. Louis Blues Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars 1954 Unverified
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St. Louis Blues Enid Mosier (Enid Mosier) 1958 Unverified
St. Louis Blues Simone Alma 1958 Unverified
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St. Louis Blues The San Francisco Marching, Trotting & Walking Band 1959 Unverified
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St. Louis Blues De Nootenkraaksters 1991 Unverified
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St. Louis Blues Neckartown Jazz Babies 1992 Unverified
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St. Louis Blues Densil Pinnock, Bill Coon (Denzal Sinclaire, Bill Coon) 1994 Unverified
St. Louis Blues Anne Shelton With Bert Ambrose and His Orchestra 1994 Unverified
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St. Louis Blues Black Coffee June 6, 1996 Unverified
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St. Louis Blues Rick Hardeman 1996 Unverified
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St. Louis Blues Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald 2006 Unverified
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St. Louis Blues Julie Dumilieu 2007 Unverified
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St. Louis Blues Spirit of New Orleans [FI] 2009 Unverified
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November 2011 Mash-up
A cappella
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2011 Live
2011
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2012
St. Louis Blues Lou Pallo Of Les Paul's Trio feat. Bob Leive, Jon Paris (Jon Paris) 2012 Unverified
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St. Louis Blues Kaz Hawkins (Kaz Hawkins) February 17, 2018 Unverified
St. Louis Blues The Beatles November 9, 2018 Missing information
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July 2019
September 5, 2019
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April 2020 Live
St. Louis Blues Ali Affleck and The Copper Cats December 21, 2020 Unverified
St. Louis Blues You Rascal Band February 19, 2021 Unverified
St. Louis Blues Miro Ungar & Kaplowitz / Križić Quartet (Miro Ungar) 2021 Unverified
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