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  St. Louis, Missouri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Greater St. Louis area, which includes counties in the states of Missouri and Illinois, is the 18th largest in the United States, with a total population of 2,698,672 as of the 2000 census.
Apotheosis of Saint Louis, a bronze statue of the city's namesake on horseback, was widely used as a symbol of the city before construction of the Arch.
Louis County (1,016,235), the independent City of St. Louis (350,705), the Missouri counties of Saint Charles (320,734), Jefferson (210,397), Franklin (98,234), Lincoln (45,618) and Warren (27,809), and the Illinois counties of Madison (264,350), Saint Clair (259,132), Clinton (36,065), Monroe (30,491) and Jersey (22,320).
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 W. C. Handy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1912 publication of his "Memphis Blues" sheet music introduced his style of 12-bar blues to many households, and was credited as the inspiration for the invention of the foxtrot dance step by Vernon and Irene Castle, a New York-based dance team.
Bessie Smith's January 14, 1925 Columbia Records recording of "St. Louis Blues" with Louis Armstrong is considered by many to be one of the finest recordings of the 1920s.
So successful was Handy's "St. Louis Blues" that in 1929, he and director Kenneth W. Adams collaborated on a RCA motion picture project of the same name which was to be shown before the main attraction.
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 Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 - July 6, 1971), also known by the nickname Satchmo, was an African American jazz trumpeter, singer, and entertainer.
Louis Armstrong died on July 6, 1971 and was interred in the Flushing Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, New York.
The Louis Armstrong archives have been availible to music researchers, and his home in Corona, Queens is schedualed to open to the public as a museum on 15 October, 2003
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 St Louis Tickets Broker - St Louis City Tickets, Venue Information, Event Schedules Tickets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Saint Louis was acquired from France by the United States under President Thomas Jefferson in 1803, as part of the Louisiana Purchase.
Saint Louis was the corporate headquarters of McDonnell-Douglas prior to its 1997 merger with Boeing.
Saint Louis remains home to railway car plants; two DaimlerChrysler plants in the nearby suburb of Fenton, Missouri, where minivans and pickup trucks are built; a General Motors plant in suburban Wentzville; and a Ford Motor Company plant in Hazelwood, where SUVs are built.
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 Jass.com: St Louis Blues: An American Classic
Louis Blues, which has almost taken on a life of its own since it was written over eighty years ago.
Louis Blues contains the Afro-Spanish habanera rhythms (heard by Handy when he toured Cuba with his minstrel show at the turn of the century) which were created in Cuba and related to those heard in Spanish Tangos and derived from the African "tangana".
Louis Blues was always a favorite with vocalists, so it's no surprise that Rudy Vallee, Cab Calloway, the Mills Brothers and the Boswell Sisters all made recordings of the song in 1930.
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 Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Bessie had scored a huge hit in 1925 with her recording of "St. Louis Blues", which had featured Louis Armstrong on cornet.
The film was shot in June of 1929 in Astoria, Long Island and was shown between the years 1929 to 1932.
The co-stars were dancer/actor Jimmy Mordecai as Bessie's good for nothing boyfriend and Isabel Washington Powell as the other woman.
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 Movie Reviews
The reason that this movie does not get a worse rating is that the director came to realize that he had a bomb on his hands and decided just to put a white cotton shirt on Miss Jennifer "Puffy" Lopez and have her run around in the cold water.
The movie is about Crowe's character playing a whistle blower for a large tobacco firm in the US and the hell that he goes through because of the decisions that he's made.
The premise of the movie is to hijack a german suba and steal it's encryption device.
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 Louis Armstrong @ Filmbug
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 19011 - July 6, 1971) (also known by the nickname Satchmo) was an African American jazz musician.
Some of his solos from the 1950s, such as the hard rocking version of Saint Louis Blues from the WC Handy album, show that the influence went in both directions.
The Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Kenner, Louisiana and serving New Orleans, Louisiana, is named after Armstrong.
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Undoubtedly the most long lived and popular blues song ever written is William Christopher Handy's immortal classic, "St. Louis Blues," which has almost taken on a life of it's own since it was written over eighty years ago.
The melody of "St. Louis Blues" contains the Afro-Spanish habanera rhythms (which Handy heard when he toured Cuba with his minstrel show at the turn of the century) were originally created in Cuba and related to those heard in Spanish Tangos and derived from the African "tangana".
The blues were represented by Margaret and Dorothy McCarthy who performed Handy's "Memphis Blues" and "St. Louis Blues." In the production, a truce in the musical battle was called when both parties agreed on Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue," played at the peak of the battle.
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 JIPS / St. Louis Diary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Legal matters always were a big issue for movies, and it is amazing how the perception of law and especially of legal practitioners in the public is influenced by those movies.
During every meeting a movie is shown and later analyzed and discussed by the class.
Not only the Rams won the Super Bowl but also the Saint Louis Blues Hockey team is among the leading clubs of the league.
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 Memphis Tennessee Travel Guide - USA Tourist
This is the birthplace of the Blues and the birthplace of Rock and Roll.
W. Handy penned the music for Saint Louis Blues, the first commercially successful Blues songs, in one of the Beale's Street bars in 1912.
I heard the mournful cry of a great delta blues singer coming from a blind guitarist playing for tips beneath the statue of W. Handy at the end of the street.
www.usatourist.com /english/places/tennessee/memphis.html   (1311 words)

  
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Movie Film Search offers software download database of large format films, as well as profiles of each film.
Internet Movie Advisor just type in a movie name, answer a few questions, and receive a list of additional films picked specifically to appeal to your tastes.
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 St. Louis Blues Online | Fan Stuff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The last movie I saw was "Very Bad Things" which I recommend.
Don't miss the Blues next game as they face-off against the Pittsburgh Penguins tomorrow night at the Kiel Center.
To stay up to date on all the latest Blues Information please visit us at www.stlouisblues.com.
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 History's Time Portal to Old St. Louis
Louis Cyclone of 1896" Account of the worst storm in the city's history.
Louis Post Dispatch and the Suburban Journals for their many excellent articles on local history and preservation.
I was born in St. Louis in 1925 and have been looking into some family history and especially have been scanning old photographs.
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 Bessie Smith News
This video appears to be from the 1929 movie Saint Louis Blues which starred Bessie Smith.
Tonight blues lovers will be in for a treat at the Roxy Regional Theatre with the world premiere of "Bessie: The Life and Music of Bessie Smith." "This is the second new play that we have produced this season,"...
Shirine Babb makes it her mission to bring a legend to life onstage in "Bessie: The Life and Music of Bessie Smith." The blues singer is celebrated in the world premiere of this play at 7 p.m.
www.topix.net /who/bessie-smith   (587 words)

  
 JR.com: Louis Armstrong - Blueberry Hill [Remaster] in Music: Trumpet:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Trumpeter/vocalist Louis Armstrong is perhaps the single most influential artist in the history of jazz.
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The Essential Louis Armstrong Satchmo At Symphony Hall This Is Jazz #23: Louis Armstrong Sings Louis Armstrong Sings (Back Through The...
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 St. Louis Blues
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 JS Online: Wayans, Hanks to be 'Ladykillers' for Coens
Set in New Orleans, "Saint Louis Blues" follows Armstrong's rags-to-riches life and his influence on the birth of jazz.
The movie, expected to go into production at end of May in Los Angeles, is about a young man (Renner) who belongs to the Aryan Brotherhood.
CASTING CALLS: In what will likely be her first movie role since giving birth to her son a year ago, Elizabeth Hurley is in talks to star in "The Method.".
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 eBay - st. louis blues ..., Fan Apparel Souvenirs, Autographs-Original items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 YouTube - Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues
No doubt Bessie Smith was one the most beautiful female blues voices.
Saint Louis Blues is a 1929 two-reel short movie starring Bessie Smith.
Smith, she is a great lady of Blues.
www.youtube.com /?v=RGYOeINVjoQ   (262 words)

  
 Scott Joplin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He was born in 1868 in the town Texarkana, Texas.
He became a famous composer who wrote a song called ‘The Saint Louis Blues’.
The types of music he played was Ragtime, Blues, and Jazz.
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 All Shop's Items : The End of the Rainbow
Condition is good with some wear on the inside of the bowl.
This Hobnail toilet water bottle has a blue sticker that reads "Imperial, Genuine Milk Glass" and the Imperial "IG" mark is on the bottom.
This lovely lady figure vase is marked "Made in Japan." It is 7 1/4" high and 3 1/2" wide across the bottom.
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 The ARChive of Contemporary Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the subject of Bob Dylan's song "Hurricane" and the benefactor of two "Night of the Hurricane" benefit shows organized by Dylan in NYC and Houston, was granted a retrial for his murder conviction.
"American Hot Wax", a fictionalized movie account of the early days of Alan Freed, premieres in the US.
Zenon de Fleur Heirowski, guitarist with the UK R&B band the Count Bishops dies of a heart attack as a result of serious injuries suffered in a car accident.
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 The Blob: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
[follow hyperlink for more...]) before he became famous, and partly because it almost perfectly exemplifies the era of sci-fi B movie (B movie: the term b-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the...
A group of teenagers discover the Blob but the town people don’t believe them until it is almost too late.
The Blob was directed by Irvin Shortess Yeaworth Jr., who filmed much of the movie in his back yard in Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania: A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies).
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There some interesting interplay on ‘Church Alley Blues’, and then there is the joy of listening to.
This band has a wonderful ability to swing and a prime example is their seven minute version of the classic Move The Body Over.
Here he often shows his Kid Ory roots (“St.Louis Blues”), but most of the time he is just his original self.
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 Jewel song A to Z (Saint Louis Blues to Sunshine Superman).
T-Bone Walker blues song apparently sung by Jewel during early San Diego shows.
It's like studies in love number 12; studies in love number...So this is called Studies In Love Number 12.
The movie is scheduled for a UK release on 20th December 2002
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 Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com - WENN - 24 April 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com - WENN - 24 April 2006
The couple, both aged 35, met at a Hollywood party hosted by Barbershop director Tim Story, US magazine People reports.
Thomas will next be seen onscreen in The Fountain and as Louis Armstrong in Saint Louis Blues.
www.imdb.com /rg/rss/news-wenn/news/wenn/2006-04-24/celeb/9   (131 words)

  
 Local news, sports, weather, traffic | St. Louis, MO | KMOV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Louis Rams wide receiver Torry Holt, also a draft-day analyst for ESPN, got his wish.
Holt's unsolicited recommendation for the first-round pick was Tye Hill of Clemson, and that's who the Rams took Saturday.
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