Ted Lewis Jazz Band<br /><br />"Beale Street Blues"<br /><br />Columbia 1050-D<br /><br />1927<br /><br />If Beale Street could talk, if Beale Street could talk, <br />Married men would have to take their beds and walk, <br />Except one or two who never drink booze, <br />And the blind man on the corner singing "Beale Street Blues!"<br /><br />The great composer W. C. Handy lived from 1873 to 1958.