Frank Petty Trio – St. Louis Blues MGM Record 78RPM Shellac Vinyl 78 RPM

This listing is for Frank Petty Trio – St. Louis Blues / Congratulate Me MGM Record 78RPM Shellac Vinyl 78 RPM.

Label: MGM Records – 11305

Format: Vinyl, 10", 78 RPM, Metrolite

Country: US

Released: 1952

Genre: Jazz, Pop

Style: Vocal  

Record Company – Loew's Incorporated

Piano – Mike Di Napoli

Tracklist:

A St. Louis Blues

B Congratulate Me

American jazz-pop trio of Frank Petty (guitar & vocals), Joe Perella (bass), & Mike "Mario" Di Napoli (piano). The group was active from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. The trio performed in the Boston area and in Belmont, New Hampshire. In 1950, they had a hit with "Rain" (US, #17) and 1951 with "Down Yonder" (US, #26).

The Saint Louis Blues" (or "St. Louis Blues") is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914. It was one of the first blues songs to succeed as a pop song and remains a fundamental part of jazz musicians' repertoire. Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Bing Crosby, Bessie Smith, Billy "Uke" Carpenter, Eartha Kitt, Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Guy Lombardo, Peanuts Hucko, Art Tatum, Paul Robeson, and the Boston Pops Orchestra (under the directions of both Arthur Fiedler and Keith Lockhart) are among the artists who have recorded it. The song has been called "the jazzman's Hamlet". Composer William Grant Still arranged a version of the song in 1916 while working with Handy. The 1925 version sung by Bessie Smith, with Louis Armstrong on cornet, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1993. The 1929 version by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra (with Red Allen) was inducted in 2008. The 1922 version by W.C. Handy and his Memphis Blues Band was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2023.

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