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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
"Aunt Hagar's Blues", the biblical Hagar, handmaiden to Abraham and Sarah, was considered the "mother" of African Americans "Beale Street Blues" (1916), written as a farewell to Beale Street of Memphis, which was named Beale Avenue until the song's popularity caused it to be changed "Long Gone John (from Bowling Green)", about a famous bank robber
"Look on Yonder Wall" (or "Look over Yonders Wall"; originally titled "Get Ready to Meet Your Man") is a blues song first recorded in 1945 by James "Beale Street" Clark. Clark, also known as "Memphis Jimmy", was a blues pianist from Memphis, Tennessee.
Blues performances were organized by the Theater Owners Booking Association in nightclubs such as the Cotton Club and juke joints such as the bars along Beale Street in Memphis. Several record companies, such as the American Record Corporation, Okeh Records, and Paramount Records, began to record African-American music.
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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 ...
In 1991, Beale Street developer John Elkington recruited King to open the original B.B. King's Blues Club in Memphis and in 1994, they launched a second club at Universal Citywalk in Los Angeles. A third club in New York City's Times Square opened in June 2000 but closed on April 29, 2018.
Beale Street is a street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, which runs from the Mississippi River to East Street, a distance of approximately 1.8 miles (2.9 km). It is a significant location in the city's history, as well as in the history of blues music.