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"Dallas Blues", written by Hart Wand is an early blues tune, first published in 1912. It has been called the first true blues song ever published.〔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."〕 However, two other 12 bar blues had been published earlier: Anthony Maggio's "I Got the Blues" in 1908, and "Oh, You Beautiful Doll", a Tin Pan Alley song whose first verse is twelve-bar blues, had been published in 1911. Also, two other songs with ''blues'' in their titles were published in 1912; "Baby Seals Blues" (August 1912), a vaudeville tune written by Arthur "Baby" Seales, and "The Memphis Blues", written by W.C. Handy (September 1912).〔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."〕 Neither, however, were genuine blues songs.〔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."〕 The song, although written for standard blues tempo〔()〕〔Wand, "Dallas Blues", p. 2〕 is often performed as Ragtime or Dixieland. The blues was originally published as an instrumental. In 1918, Lloyd Garrett added lyrics〔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).〕 to reflect the singer's longing for Dallas: :''There's a place I know, folks won't pass me by,'' :''Dallas, Texas, that's the town, I cry, oh hear me cry.'' :''And I'm going back, going back to stay there 'til I die, until I die.'' No date is found for the actual composition of "Dallas Blues" but Samuel Charters, who interviewed Wand for his book, ''The Country Blues'' (1959), states that Wand took the tune to a piano playing friend, Annabelle Robbins, who arranged the music for him.〔Charters, ''The Country Blues'', page 35.〕 Charters adds that the title came from one of Wand's father's workmen who remarked that the tune gave him the blues to go back to Dallas. Since Wand's father died in 1909, the actual composition must have predated that. In any case, within weeks of its publication it was heard the length of the Mississippi River,〔Charters, ''The Country Blues'', page 36: "Twenty bars in all, it was easy to play and whistle, and within a few weeks it was a favorite the length of the Mississippi River."〕 and its influence on all the blues music that followed is well documented. ==Early recordings== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dallas Blues」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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