• Leroy Carr (March 27, 1904 or 1905 – April 29, 1935) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique...
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  • "How Long How Long") is a blues song recorded by the American blues duo Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell in 1928. It became an early blues standard and...
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  • and singer, best known as half of the guitar-piano duo he formed with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was a 2024 inductee to the Blues...
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    popular black musicians of the era, such as Tampa Red, Big Bill Broonzy and Leroy Carr. An important label of this era was the Chicago-based Bluebird Records...
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  • Martin, 1922) "Trouble in Mind" (Bertha Hill, 1926) "How Long Blues" (Leroy Carr, 1928) "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (Bessie Smith, 1929)...
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  • Drunk Blues" (written and first recorded by Bogan but released first by Leroy Carr in 1930 then by Bogan the following year, later recorded by others) and...
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  • Daniels Leroy "Shaq" Buchanan (born 1997), American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League Leroy Burrell, American athlete Leroy Carr, blues...
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  • Side A "Soul Brothers" (Quincy Jones) – 9:34 "How Long, How Long Blues" (Leroy Carr) – 9:15 Side B "Cosmic Ray" – 5:21 "Blue Funk" – 8:09 "Bag's Guitar Blues"...
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    Harlem Hamfats, with their 1936 hit "Oh Red", as well as Lonnie Johnson, Leroy Carr, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, and T-Bone Walker. There was also increasing...
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  • purist notions of the Delta blues with their cover of "How Long Blues" by Leroy Carr, who not only was not from the Mississippi Delta and did not play guitar...
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