W C Handy
William Christopher Handy
American
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1892/00/00 | W C Handy hears the tune to "St Louis Blues" in St Louis: "It had numerous one-line verses and they would sing it all night." | Songwriter | St Louis Blues | City of St Louis | Missouri | ||
| 1913/00/00 | W C Handy's music publishing company, Pace and Handy, open their office on the second floor of the Solvent Savings Bank and Trust Co building. (Either the current structure or the razed building). | Work | Tri-State Bank | Memphis, TN | |||
| 1918/00/00 | Pace and Handy move their office to Times Square in New York City. | Work | Tri-State Bank | Memphis, TN | |||
| 1925/01/24 | Bessie Smith, with Louis Armstrong on cornet, records "St Louis Blues" New York City. | Songwriter | St Louis Blues | ||||
| 1928/04/27 | W C Handy, the cornetist and composer often called the Father of the Blues, brings his orchestra and Jubilee Singers to Carnegie Hall for a concert of jazz, plantation songs and concert music. | Musician | St Louis Blues | Carnegie Hall | New York City | ||
| 1928/04/27 | W C Handy presents Fats Waller playing the piano and organ. | Performer | Carnegie Hall | New York City | |||
| 1929/11/05 | "St Louis Blues", an American two-reel film starring Bessie Smith, is released. | Producer | St Louis Blues (Short Film) |
1 Creative Work by W C Handy »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| St Louis Blues | Songwriter | Song | 1925/01/24 |
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