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10/04/2010
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St. Louis Blues
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  • Composer-W.C.Handy
  • Singer-Billie Holiday
  • Classical blues
  • 1914
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Midnight Special
 Definition
  • Singer-Lead Belly/Huddie Ledbetter
  • the Texan black song tradition
  • 1934
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I Got Rhythm
 Definition
  • Composer-George Gershwin
  • Lyrist-Ira Gershwin
  • First performed by Ethel merman in the Braodway musical comedy Girl Crazy
  • "rhythm changes"
  • 1930
Term
Cotton Tail
 Definition
  • Composer-Duke Ellington
  • big-band swing
  • dance music
  • 1940
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Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
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Composer-Sholom Secunda

Lyricist-Jacob Jacobs

Singer-Ella Fitzgerald