In what city would you find Beale Street, famous for its blues clubs?
Beale Street Blues Beale Street Blues "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. The title refers to Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, an entertainment district for the city's African-American population in the early part of the 20th century. "Beale Street Blues" "juxtaposes the 12-bar blues form with an 8-bar counter-theme". Like many of Handy's songs, it is a hybrid of the blues style with the popular ballad style of the day; the opening lyrics follow a line pattern
Beale Street Blues Since the 1950s, the song has been associated with trad bands. In the Paramount Pictures 1958 movie "St. Louis Blues", starring Nat King Cole as Handy, Ella Fitzgerald sings a rendition of this song. "If Beale Street Could Talk", a 1974 novel by the American writer James Baldwin, refers to this song in its title. The novel was adapted as a film of the same name and released in November 2018 after being screened at the 2018 St. Louis International Film Festival. Beale Street Blues "Beale Street Blues" is a song by American composer and lyricist W.C. Handy. It was