A masterpiece from the King.

One of Will Friedwald's DIDs.

Review by Scott Yanow
"The filmed version of W.C. Handy's life, St. Louis Blues, is a fictional abomination full of every bad cliché that Hollywood could come up with. Its one saving grace was the dignified performance given by Nat King Cole in the lead role (even if Handy was never a singing pianist). This LP, in addition to featuring Nelson Riddle's "Overture" from the film, finds Cole singing ten of Handy's finest compositions (including "Beale Street Blues," "Careless Love" and the title song) while backed by an orchestra playing Riddle's arrangements."





01 - Overture.flac
02 - Harlem Blues.flac
03 - Chantez Les Bas.flac
04 - Friendless Blues.flac
05 - Stay.flac
06 - Joe Turner's Blues.flac
07 - Beale Street Blues.flac
08 - Careless Love.flac
09 - Morning Star.flac
10 - Memphis Blues.flac
11 - Yellow Dog Blues.flac
12 - St Louis Blues.flac





LP > Rega P1 with Ortofon Super 30 > TC-750LC > E-Mu 0202 > Adobe Audition 3 (AA) @ 96kHz 32bit float > Manual click removal in AA > Click Repair set @ 20 > Equalizer (from the ClickRepair guy) used to combine into mono) > AA used to split tracks, fade in/out, and for manual click removal > RX Advanced to resample > RX Advanced to dither MBIT+ > TLH to FLAC and sector align (16bit, pad) > MP3 Tagger to edit tags.

"16bit" = 16bit at 44.1kHz
"24bit" = 24bit at 96kHz

No music was harmed in the making of this vinyl rip.