Beale Street Blues

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Beale Street Blues

Summary

Beale Street Blues is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (74 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Beale Street Blues's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Beale Street Blues's composer is recorded as W. C. Handy[4].
  • Beale Street Blues's genre is blues[5].
  • Beale Street is named after Beale Street Blues[6].
  • Beale Street Blues was performed by Gilda Gray[7].
  • Beale Street Blues's Commons category is recorded as Beale Street Blues[8].
  • Beale Street Blues was released on 1917[9].
  • Beale Street Blues's tonality is recorded as B-flat major[10].
  • Beale Street Blues's copyright status is recorded as public domain[11].
  • Beale Street Blues's form of creative work is recorded as song[12].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[13]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 5d914b2c-ce9b-352f-9641-5f2b63988214[14]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Beale Street Blues was performed by Gilda Gray[7].

Publication

Beale Street Blues was released on 1917[9]. Its genre is blues[5].

Cultural Impact

Things named for Beale Street Blues include If Beale Street Could Talk[15], a literary work[16], written by James Baldwin[17].

Why It Matters

Beale Street Blues ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (74 views/month).[2]

Entities named for it include If Beale Street Could Talk[15], a literary work[16], written by James Baldwin[17].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [13] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [14] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [15] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [16] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_beale-street-blues_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Beale Street Blues}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/beale-street-blues}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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