© Estelle Saltiel-Pardo
National Civil Rights Museum – Memphis TN
Where Dr. King checked into the Lorraine Motel – © Estelle Saltiel-Pardo
Can a man love God and hate his brother? – National Civil Rights Museum – Memphis, TN
© Estelle Saltiel-Pardo
Memphis TN
Chad’s 60 South – Prince Mongo’s Planet – Williams Cotton Company – Memphis, TN
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Frank H. Jump
Close up of door @ Chad's 60 South © Frank H. Jump
Xiaoqichao's Photos @ Buzznet Jan 2006
- Chad’s 60 South – Flickr
- Robert “Prince Mongo” Hodges – Memphis History dot org
F. G. Barton Cotton Factors – Cotton Row – Memphis, TN
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
- Memphis Cotton Exchange – F. G. Barton, President 1932-1933
- Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power – Gene Dattel dot com
- BUILDING IT OF BRICK AND HOLLOW TILE: LEE WILSON AND BLACK LABOUR By Professor Jeannie Whayne, Department of History, University of Arkansas
- FG Barton Cotton – Flickr
Mr. Handy’s Blues Hall – Juke Joint – Beale Street – Memphis, TN
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Old Beale Street is coming down
Sweeties’ Snack Bar, boarded up now
And Egles The Tailor and the Shine Boy’s gone
Faded out with ragtime blues
Handy’s cast in bronze
And he’s standing in a little park
With a trumpet in his hand
Like he’s listening back to the good old bands
And the click of high heeled shoes
Old Furry sings the blues
-Furry Sings the Blues, Hejira (1976) Joni Mitchell
Other postings with WC Handy references:
- Furry Sings the Blues – Joni Mitchell – Jay Warren – Memphis TN -December 26, 2008
- Memphis – Home of the Blues – Birthplace of Rock ‘n’ Roll – Sep 27th, 2009
Memphis Sanitation Receptacles – Beale Street – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr & The Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike
Cotton – Fulton & Sons – Slavery & Cotton – History of Memphis TN
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Negroes in Tennessee
- Little is known concerning the coming of the first Negroes to Tennessee, but there is reason to believe that they were in the territory much earlier than is commonly supposed. It is probable that Negroes were with De Soto when he camped near the present site of Memphis in 1541, since they were known to have been with him when he left Spain the previous year. A century later the French are reported to have sent “an army of 1,200 white men and double that number of red and black men who took up their quarters in Fort Assumption, on the bluff of Memphis.” The next Negro to set foot on Tennessee soil seems to have been with Colonel James Smith and a group of Long Hunters who explored the Cumberland country in 1766. Known to history merely as “Jim” this “mulatto lad” inspired a stanza in Colonel Smith’s diary. Another “negro fellow” accompanied James Robertson in 1779 when he came down from the Holston Settlement to the site of what is now Nashville.
- The new settlers brought Negroes with them and by 1790, when the first census was taken, there were 3,417 slaves in the Territory. Six years later, when Tennessee became a State, there were 10,613 Negroes in a population of 77,282. As a result of the invention of the cotton gin and the rapid growth of the cotton industry, slavery was widely expanded between 1790 and 1835. By 1840 Tennessee had 183,057 slaves whose per capita value was about $550 as compared to less than $100 in 1790. – TENNESSEE: A GUIDE TO THE STATE – New Deal Network – Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
Google Books
Tennessee's historic landscapes: a traveler's guide By Carroll Van West - Google Books
- Fulton & Sons Cotton – Flickr
- History of Memphis – City of Memphis dot org
Remembering Memphis – Don’t Forget About Elvis & Dusty – Crossing the Mississippi – August 2009
© Vincenzo Aiosa
The Kings Court - CLICK FOR EXTENSIVE DETAILS ON THIS RECORDING
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) – I Forgot to Remember to Forget – Recorded in Memphis TN, 1955
© Vincenzo Aiosa
Dusty in Memphis – Don’t Forget About Me – Recorded in Memphis, September 1968
Original cover European release on Phillips records
Original liner notes from 'Dusty in Memphis'
Rhino re-release with BONUS TRACKS!
Rhino Records re-release
- Dusty in Memphis – Dusty Springfield (Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien – 16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999) – Wikipedia
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
Pyramid Arena - CLICK FOR WIKIPEDIA LINK © Vincenzo Aiosa
Memphis – Home of the Blues – Birthplace of Rock 'n' Roll
© Vincenzo Aiosa
WC Handy Park © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Elvis © Frank H. Jump
Old Beale Street is coming down
Sweeties’ Snack Bar, boarded up now
And Egles The Tailor and the Shine Boy’s gone
Faded out with ragtime blues
Handy’s cast in bronze
And he’s standing in a little park
With a trumpet in his hand
Like he’s listening back to the good old bands
And the click of high heeled shoes
Old Furry sings the blues
-Furry Sings the Blues, Hejira (1976) Joni Mitchell
O.K. Houck Piano Co – Vose Pianos – Steinway Pianos – Memphis, TN
Music Trade Review - digitized by support by namm dot org
O.K. Houck Piano Co. - Everything in Music- Overlooking the Mississippi River © Frank H. Jump
Steinway Pianos © Frank H. Jump
Vose Pianos © Frank H. Jump
Overlooking the Mississippi River © Frank H. Jump
During the mid 1950s through the mid 1960s when Memphis, Tennessee appeared to be the virtual center of Rock ‘n Roll, Soul and R&B talent, the O.K. Houck Piano Co. was the premier dealer in the area where almost everyone bought their instruments.
Tennessee Centennial Prize March by Maurice Bernhardt 1897 O. K. Houck & Co. publication - Scotty Moore dot net
- OK Houck Piano Co – Scotty Moore Website – One of Rock ‘n Roll’s first Music stores
VOSE & SONS
James W. Vose was born on October 21, 1818. He became a cabinetmaker, then learned the piano making trade from various Boston area piano factories. In 1851 he made his first piano, starting his own business. He had three sons, and all of them learned the business, and joined their father as partners in the firm. At this time, he renamed it Vose & Sons. The business was incorporated in 1889, with the Vose family holding the entire stock. Eventually, the American Piano Company purchased the firm, and used the Vose name until 1982.
According to Spillane’s History of the American Pianoforte (printed in 1890):
“Vose & Sons came into existence in 1851 in Boston, and therefore bear the distinction of being a very old piano-makers. J. W. Vose, the founder and senior member of this firm, is a native of Milton, Mass., the birthplace of Crehore, where he was born in 1818. He served an old-fashioned apprentice course in Milton and Boston, first learning cabinet-making. At twenty, he became a piano-maker. Later he acquired a varied experience in various Boston shops, subsequently founding his business in the year indicated. The Vose & Sons piano of to-day contains all the standard improvements, besides specialties originated by the firm. It is a popular instrument, and has a large following of admirers in the musical profession throughout the States. The firm of Vose & Sons is made up of Mr. J. W. Vose, the founder, Mr. Willard A. Vose, born in 1852, Mr. Irving B. Vose, born in 1850, and Mr. Julien W. Vose, born in 1859, all practical piano-makers, and graduates of good educational institutions in Boston.”
One of America’s most distinguished pianos. The “Vose” piano has sustained itself in the respect of musicians and the admiration of the public through Mr. James W Vose, recognized as one of the greatest presidents of the many great piano manufacturing concerns of the country. From the first the career of the Vose piano has been steadily gaining until it has reached a position ranking among the foremost pianos of the world. The “Vose” pianos of today are marked by a distinct originality of case designs, careful and most thorough construction, and musical effects of the most satisfactory character. They are pianos whose characters are of a kind to attract the attention of people of refinement and good taste.
