forgive me if i'm using the incorrect terminology, but i think y'all know what i'm talking about. do any of you know the history behind it? i'm guessing it was around long before it was ever first recorded, but do you know who put it on record first (and the song's title)?

just a random pondering.

1/3/2008 9:18:40 PM

the blue note?

1/3/2008 9:24:55 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Dixieland_Jass_Band

1/3/2008 9:42:45 PM

a black guy

1/3/2008 9:43:55 PM

Quote :

"What is now recognizable as the standard 12-bar blues form is documented from oral history and sheet music appearing in African American communities throughout the region along the lower Mississippi River, in Memphis, Tennessee's Beale Street, and by white bands in New Orleans."

1/3/2008 9:50:04 PM

harry connick, jr.

1/3/2008 9:54:13 PM

Elvis! duh

1/3/2008 9:55:44 PM

http://www.redhotjazz.com/songs/ODJB/mourninblues.ram

released in 1918

[Edited on January 3, 2008 at 10:06 PM. Reason : .]

1/3/2008 10:05:36 PM

phonoautograph - patented 1857
phonograph - patented 1877

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph

I'd bet a bundle that the blues standard was recorded at the latest in 1878.

1/4/2008 1:09:17 AM

doubtful


blues arose from call/response field songs which didnt really come about as a seperate art form uintil the late 19th century, and even then its tough to really tracxk since no one was interested in recording the black mans music. i posted the first jazz ensemble ever recorded and they were white. it wasnt until the white man began playing these songs that it became popular outside of new orleans/chicago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues

Quote :

"Though the use of the phrase in African American music may be older, it has been attested to since 1912, when Hart Wand's "Dallas Blues" became the first copyrighted Blues composition."

[Edited on January 4, 2008 at 1:34 AM. Reason : j]

1/4/2008 1:29:35 AM

^I know, I know...

I feel like there had to have been at least one rich, "eccentric" music enthusiast who recorded it before then.

Not necessarily for release, but at least for personal use or research or something.

1878 doesn't make much sense, I know, but come on...

1/4/2008 2:08:34 AM

well ya never know, maybe there was and its been lost with time

1/4/2008 2:10:40 AM

Ronnie James Dio.

1/4/2008 5:26:28 PM

ROBERT FUCKIN JOHNSON

1/4/2008 5:41:56 PM

^

Hear him!

1/4/2008 8:41:57 PM

^^ No.

1/4/2008 9:29:45 PM

BLUES HAMMER.

1/4/2008 10:04:09 PM

I BEEN PLLLLLLOWWWWWWIINNN

1/4/2008 11:07:19 PM