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Saint Louis Blues (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (454 words) |
 | Louis Blues" is a piece of American music composed by William Christopher Handy in the blues style. |
| It was also one of the first blues songs to succeed as a pop song; it has been performed by numerous musicians of all styles from Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith to Glenn Miller and the Boston Pops Orchestra. |
| The form is unusual in that the verses are the familiar standard twelve bar blues in common time with three lines of lyrics, the first two lines repeated, but it also has a 16-bar bridge written in the habanera rhythm. |
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