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1941 full album - Birth Of The Blues-Lena Horne & Henry Levine (8 continuous tracks)


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From the Rick Colom Collection: An album of W.C. Handy music conducted by Henry Levine, with vocals by Lena on tracks 1,3,5 & 7



Note: these eight songs have also been posted as individual videos and were included in the second of four early-1940s album sets that featured cast members of NBC’s weekly program “The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street.” The tongue-in-cheek presentations of jazz, blues and Dixieland were performed by studio musicians led by Henry Levine and Paul Laval with vocals during the early seasons by Dinah Shore, Lena Horne and Linda Keene. Wikipedia’s entry “The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street” has additional details about the program.



01 St. Louis Blues (Lena Horne)

02 Memphis Blues (Henry Levine)

03 Beale Street Blues (Lena Horne)

04 Joe Turner Blues (Henry Levine)

05 Aunt Hagar’s Blues (Lena Horne)

06 East St. Louis Blues (Henry Levine)

07 Careless Love (Lena Horne)

08 John Henry Blues (Henry Levine)



78rpm Victor 27542 thru 27545, issued in Victor album P-82, recorded in New York on June 23 & June 25, 1941



Other Victor albums featuring music from the CMSOLBS included:



P-56 NBC’s Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street

P-86 NBC’s Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street II

P-119 Strictly From Dixie

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