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Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues

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single. It was Jackson's first record and an early blues hit. Music writer Peter Silvester suggests it was one of the first million-seller records. This sales figure is disputed, but the recording was "immensely popular... and became a standard among Mississippi and Memphis bluesmen".
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later recorded a song she called "Kansas City Blues". Her lyrics included "Goin' to Kansas City to bring Jim Jackson home".
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of the song. Jackson was also a medicine show singer and it is supposed that the two men knew each other from that time.
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would later incorporate into his 1952 recording, "Sundown Boogie."
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The song's melody line was re-used and developed by
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Index


Single
Jim Jackson
B-side
Genre
Blues
Label
Vocalion
Songwriter(s)
blues
Jim Jackson
Vocalion Records
A-side and B-side
William Harris
Richmond, Indiana
cover
Charlie Patton
Hank Williams
Move It on Over
Rock Around the Clock
Leiber and Stoller
Kansas City
Ma Rainey
Bill Haley
Robert Nighthawk
Harmonica Frank
Janis Joplin
ISBN
978-1561592371
ISBN

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