All You Need is Love - Who's that Comin? Blues .
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All You Need is Love - Who's that Comin? Blues Beale Street historian Lieutenant George Lee discusses segregation. Paul Oliver talks about the origin of the term blues, it's roots with Negro plantation workers and how blues as a form arrives after jazz and ragtime. There is an exploration of Beale Street in Memphis, the 'home' of the blues. Tin Pan Alley rejected early blues songs. The relocation of black musicians from Chicago from the south helped spread the blues. The guitar gained prominence over the harmonica, Charles demonstrates the simplicity of the blues. Paul Oliver discusses the popularisation of the blues in the 1920's.Vaudeville singers started bringing the blues into their performances. The folk idiom mutated into blues .George Melly and John Hammond on the impact of Bessie Smith and her tragic death. Muddy Waters and the electrification of the blues. Jimmy Dawkins claims others can play the blues but only black people feel the blues. John Hammond on seeing Billie Holiday and introducing her to Benny Goodman. Her drug taking and death compared to Bessie Smith's. Barney Josephson on the controversy over Holiday's most famous song, 'Strange Fruit' and on opening the first integrated nightclub, Cafe Society which led to him being blacklisted by the press. B.B King performs 'The Thrill Has Gone'.