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"Beale Street Blues" is a song by American composer and lyricist W.C. Handy. It was named after Beale Street , a center of African-American music in Memphis, Tennessee , and was published in 1917. Background
Those two very different events show just how divided Memphis was in the 1960s and how the blues, developed and notated down on Beale Street, would continue to be a lightning rod, as would the ...
Palmer C. Hayden (born Peyton Cole Hedgeman; January 15, 1890 – February 18, 1973) was an American painter who depicted African-American life, landscapes, seascapes, and African influences. He sketched, painted in both oils and watercolors , and was a prolific artist of his era.
If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by American writer James Baldwin.His fifth novel (and 13th book overall), it is a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. [1] [2] The title is a reference to the 1916 W.C. Handy blues song "Beale Street Blues", named after Beale Street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee.
Beale Street in 1974 Beale Street in 2014 Rex Billiard Hall for Colored, Beale Street, 1939.Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.. Beale Street was created in 1841 by entrepreneur and developer Robertson Topp (1807–1876), who soon named it later in the decade for Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a military hero from the Mexican–American War.
James B. Sikking, known for his roles as Lt. Howard Hunter on “Hill Street Blues” and the titular character’s father on “Doogie Howser, M.D.,” has died. He was 90. Sikking died Saturday ...
Beale Street Blues (W.C. Handy, 1917) Beale Street Mama (J. Russel Robinson and Roy Turk) Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar (Don Raye, Hughie Prince, and Ray McKinley, 1950) Beau Koo Jack (Louis Armstrong, Walter Melrose, Alex Hill, 1929) Beautiful Black Eyes (Wayne Shorter or Lou McConnell, 1978) A Beautiful Friendship (Donald Kahn and Stanley ...
After “Hill Street Blues,” Sikking played Dr. David Howser, father of Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris), for all four seasons of the ABC medical sitcom from 1989 to 1993.