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Thread #160248   Message #3799899
Posted By: GUEST,Joseph Scott
12-Jul-16 - 02:15 AM
Thread Name: Charles Handy sticks up for brother W.C.
Subject: Charles Handy sticks up for brother W.C.
... albeit inaccurately.

Charles Handy to Associated Press, 1962: "Many articles you see will say the blues originated in New Orleans. But the 'Memphis Blues' was the first written blues."

"I Got The Blues" was published by A. Maggio in New Orleans in 1908.