• Leroy Carr (March 27, 1904 or 1905 – April 29, 1935) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique...
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  • "How Long How Long") is a blues song recorded by the American blues duo Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell in 1928. It became an early blues standard and...
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  • and singer, best known as half of the guitar-piano duo he formed with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was a 2024 inductee to the Blues...
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  • Drunk Blues" (written and first recorded by Bogan but released first by Leroy Carr in 1930 then by Bogan the following year, later recorded by others) and...
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    popular black musicians of the era, such as Tampa Red, Big Bill Broonzy and Leroy Carr. An important label of this era was the Chicago-based Bluebird Records...
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  • Martin, 1922) "Trouble in Mind" (Chippie Hill, 1926) "How Long Blues" (Leroy Carr, 1928) "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (Bessie Smith, 1929)...
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  • Side A "Soul Brothers" (Quincy Jones) – 9:34 "How Long, How Long Blues" (Leroy Carr) – 9:15 Side B "Cosmic Ray" – 5:21 "Blue Funk" – 8:09 "Bag's Guitar Blues"...
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  • (1934) "Color Him Father" – The Winstons (1969) "Papa's on the Housetop" – Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell (1930) "Mama Loves Papa (And Papa Loves The Women)"...
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  • Daniels Leroy "Shaq" Buchanan (born 1997), American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League Leroy Burrell, American athlete Leroy Carr, blues...
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  • Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a...
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  • purist notions of the Delta blues with their cover of "How Long Blues" by Leroy Carr, who not only was not from the Mississippi Delta and did not play guitar...
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    Harlem Hamfats, with their 1936 hit "Oh Red", as well as Lonnie Johnson, Leroy Carr, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, and T-Bone Walker. There was also increasing...
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  • by Walter Roland to "Red Cross" to guitar. Leroy Carr's "Baby Don't You Love Me No More" (with Leroy Carr on piano and Scrapper Blackwell on guitar) shares...
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  • Mistreater Mama" by Leroy Carr accompanied by Scrapper Blackwell.[citation needed] Johnson uses the Carr melody and conveys something of Carr's style in his...
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  • found on the earlier Smith anthology. The album includes selections from Leroy Carr, one of the best-selling blues artists of the 1930s, to Robert Johnson...
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    Bland Roy Brown Blind Willie McTell Professor Longhair Tampa Red 1982 Leroy Carr Ray Charles Big Walter Horton Freddie King Magic Sam 1983 Louis Jordan...
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  • 1933 – Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863) 1935 – Leroy Carr, American singer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1905) 1937 – William Gillette...
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  • Leon Carr (1910–1976), American songwriter Leonard G. Carr (1902–1976), American minister Leroy Carr (1905–1935), American singer-songwriter Les Carr (1929–2012)...
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  • Society from Hack "How Long, How Long Blues", a 1928 classic blues song by Leroy Carr "How Long" (Fats Domino song), 1952 "How Long", a 1991 song by Dire Straits...
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  • The Drifters (with Rudy Lewis – lead vocals) "When The Sun Goes Down" – LeRoy Carr (with Scrapper Blackwell) "The Way You Look Tonight" – Fred Astaire (with...
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  • Nichols, Nick Lucas, Al Jolson, Earl Burtnett, Ethel Waters, Abe Lyman, Leroy Carr, Tampa Red and Memphis Minnie, and soon after the sale to Warner Bros...
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  • Lonnie Donegan Showcase, in summer 1956, with songs by Lead Belly and Leroy Carr, plus "Ramblin' Man" and "Wabash Cannonball". The LP sold hundreds of...
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  • Tonk Angels' Medley" – 2:55 "In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)" (Leroy Carr, Don Raye) "You Nearly Lose Your Mind" (Ernest Tubb) "Blues Stay Away...
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  • WILLIAMS; VIVIAN SMITH; JIMMY SHIRLEY; ISRAEL CROSBY; TOMMY BENFORD; LEROY CARR (1945), HOW LONG - HOW LONG BLUES, Internet Archive, Blue Note, retrieved...
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  • Gary Clark Jr., Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson, Don Robey 4:03 6. "Bright Lights"   8:26 7. "When the Sun Goes Down" Leroy Carr 5:44 Total length: 48:29...
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  • Baldry as lead singer with songs by Muddy Waters, Jimmy Witherspoon and Leroy Carr. Late in 1962 Davies disagreed with Korner's intention to add a brass...
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  • corrupted and badly damaged version of the Paippalāda text was edited by Leroy Carr Barret from 1905 to 1940 from a single Kashmirian Śāradā manuscript (now...
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  • the Evening (It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best)" (Leroy Carr) – 4:29 "Blues on the Ceiling" (Fred Neil) – 3:30 "It Hurts Me Too" (Mel...
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  • Side Two No. Title Writer(s) Length 7. "How Long" Leroy Carr 2:58 8. "All Night Long"   5:03 9. "Cypress Grove"   4:20 10. "Look Down the Road"   3:16...
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    his influences was Leroy Carr, whose "How Long–How Long Blues" (1928) was an early favorite. Johnson later used the melody from Carr's "When the Sun Goes...
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