Dallas Blues

«Dallas Blues» — американская блюзовая песня, написанная и опубликованная в марте 1912 года Хартом Уэндом, ставшая первой в истории полностью блюзовой композицией, появившейся в печати.^[1]. «Oh, You Beautiful Doll» — работа композиторов Тин-Пэн-Элли — была опубликована годом ранее, но только её первый куплет был в формате 12-тактового блюза. В том же 1912 году вышли ещё две песни, имевшие в своём названии слово «блюз»: «Baby Seals Blues» (август 1912; водевильный номер, написанный Артуром Силзом) и «The Memphis Blues» (сентябрь 1912; написан Уильямом Хэнди).^[2]^[3] Однако ни одна из них не была настоящим блюзом.^[4] Точная дата сочинения песни неизвестна, но есть свидетельства, указывающие на то, что «Dallas Blues» была написана не позднее 1909 года.^[5] В 1918 году Ллойд Гарретт дополнил текст, добавив строчки о тоске героя песни по Далласу.^[6] Несмотря на то, что песня написана для стандартного блюзового темпа (Tempo di Blues. Very slowly) (недоступная ссылка)^[7], она часто исполняется в стиле регтайма или диксиленда.

В 1918 году запись с песней вышла в исполнении Wilbur Sweatman’s Jazz Band на пластинке фирмы Columbia. В 1929 году Луи Армстронг и его оркестр записали песню для лейбла Okeh Records.

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↑ Duncan, Blues Fiddling Classics, page 30: «This tune was the first 12-bar blues to be published (March 1912). It was written by violinist/band leader Hart Wand from Oklahoma.»
↑ Davis, The History of the Blues, page 59: "But in a sense, the very first blues was the twelve-bar opening verse to the pop song "Oh, You Beautiful Doll, « which was published in 1911.»
↑ Davis, The History of the Blues, page 59: "The composer of the very first copyright «blues» was Hart Wand, a white Oklahoma violinist and bandleader whose «Dallas Blues» was so named because its melody gave a black porter who worked for Wand’s family «the blues to go back to Dallas.» This was followed a few months later by «Bably Seal Blues», a negligible item by the black vaudeville performer Arthur"Baby" Seals and ragtime pianist Arthur Matthews."
↑ Charters, The Country Blues, pages 34-35: "The first was Hart Wand’s "Dallas Blues, " published in March; the second was Arthur Seals’s "Bab Seals' Blues, " published in August; Handy finally brought out his blues in September. Both Handy and Arthur Seals were Negroes, but the music that they titled "blues is more or less derived from the standard popular musical styles of the «coon-song» and «cake-walk» type. It is ironic the first published piece in the Negro "blues idiom, «Dallas Blues,' was by a white man, Hart Wand.»
↑ Charters, The Country Blues, page 35.
↑ Jasen, A Century of American Popular Music, page 45: «Dallas Blues»; Wand Publishing Co.—Oklahoma City, 1912; Probably the first published blues number. Words were added (by Lloyd Garrett in 1918). Although a favorite of dance and jazz bands, Ted Lewis and His Band had the number 7 hit in 1931, with Fats Waller as vocalist (Columbia 2527-D).
↑ Wand, «Dallas Blues», p. 2

[1] Duncan, Blues Fiddling Classics, page 30: «This tune was the first 12-bar blues to be published (March 1912). It was written by violinist/band leader Hart Wand from Oklahoma.»

[2] Davis, The History of the Blues, page 59: "But in a sense, the very first blues was the twelve-bar opening verse to the pop song "Oh, You Beautiful Doll, « which was published in 1911.»

[3] Davis, The History of the Blues, page 59: "The composer of the very first copyright «blues» was Hart Wand, a white Oklahoma violinist and bandleader whose «Dallas Blues» was so named because its melody gave a black porter who worked for Wand’s family «the blues to go back to Dallas.» This was followed a few months later by «Bably Seal Blues», a negligible item by the black vaudeville performer Arthur"Baby" Seals and ragtime pianist Arthur Matthews."

[4] Charters, The Country Blues, pages 34-35: "The first was Hart Wand’s "Dallas Blues, " published in March; the second was Arthur Seals’s "Bab Seals' Blues, " published in August; Handy finally brought out his blues in September. Both Handy and Arthur Seals were Negroes, but the music that they titled "blues is more or less derived from the standard popular musical styles of the «coon-song» and «cake-walk» type. It is ironic the first published piece in the Negro "blues idiom, «Dallas Blues,' was by a white man, Hart Wand.»

[5] Charters, The Country Blues, page 35.

[6] Jasen, A Century of American Popular Music, page 45: «Dallas Blues»; Wand Publishing Co.—Oklahoma City, 1912; Probably the first published blues number. Words were added (by Lloyd Garrett in 1918). Although a favorite of dance and jazz bands, Ted Lewis and His Band had the number 7 hit in 1931, with Fats Waller as vocalist (Columbia 2527-D).

[7] Wand, «Dallas Blues», p. 2

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