Beale Street blues / [sheet music]
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- Title
- Beale Street blues [sheet music]
- Alternate Title
- Beale Street
- First line of text:
- I've seen the lights of gay Broadway
- First line of chorus:
- I'd rather be here
- Composer
- Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958
- Performer
- Gray, Gilda, ca. 1898-1959
- Corporate Name
- Pace & Handy Music Co. (New York, N.Y.)
- Place of Publication/Creation
- Published/Created
- 1917
- Type of Material
- notated music
- Genre
- sheet music
- Language
- English
- Forms
- electronic resource
- remote
- computer file
- Creator note
- by W.C. Handy.
- Notes
- For voice and piano.
- Cover title.
- "As sung by Miss Gilda Gray in Shubert's gaieties of 1919."
- Advertisement for other songs: p. [6]
- Cover illustration: photograph of Gilda Gray.
- Additional physical form
- Also available in print.
- Subjects
- Gray, Gilda, ca. 1898-1959
- Afro-Americans--Songs and music
- Blues (Music)
- Afro-American composers
- Identifier
- hdl:loc.award/rpbaasm.0578
- Repository
- Brown University Library Box A, Providence, RI, 02912
- Electronic resource
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/rpbaasm.0578
Last Updated: 07-31-2014