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Gordon jenkins crescent city blues lyrics
Crescent City Blues
1953 song by Gordon Jenkins featuring Beverly Mahr
"Crescent City Blues" is a song written by composer Gordon Jenkins and sung by Beverly Mahr, and released on his Seven Dreams album in 1953.
It is a torch song about a lonely woman hoping to leave the Midwestern town of Crescent City. Its melody borrows heavily from the 1930s instrumental "Crescent City Blues" by Little Brother Montgomery.[1] It was adapted by singer Johnny Cash as the "Folsom Prison Blues."[2]
History
Jenkins was a respected composer and arranger throughout the 1930s and 1940s.
As musical director for Decca Records, Jenkins released an experimental concept album Seven Dreams consisting of seven radioplay-style musicals named for their protagonists.[3] The album became a top-ten hit on the Billboard charts.[4]
In Seven Dreams, the characters take a journey by train from New York to New Orleans.[5] The "Second Dream" was called "Th