Beale Street Mama [SEP] director
Beale Street Mama
Beale Street Mama is a 1923 popular song by J. Russell Robinson and Roy Turk. An early jazz standard, it was recorded by Bessie Smith, Ted Lewis, Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway, and many others.
Beale Street Mama is a 1946 race film directed by and starring Spencer Williams and distributed by Sack Amusement Enterprises, named after the famous song. The film is set in Memphis, Tennessee and focuses on a street sweeper who comes upon a large parcel of money. He uses the newly
song "The Devil & Me", on the album "From Beale Street to Oblivion", contains a reference to Beale Street.
- Joni Mitchell's song "Furry Sings The Blues" is a lamentation of the redevelopment of Beale Street in the late 1960s. It references W.C. Handy and both the Old and The New Daisy Theatres, among others.
- Cab Calloway's song "Beale Street Mama" is all about Beale Street.
- Todd Agnew's song "My Jesus" says that the singer