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American jazz and popular music composer, pianist, and singer (1889-1965)

Person · Open Library

Works
5

Top works

  • Aging in California
  • Weird Tales
  • Tranz
  • Sudoku Cupcakes - Volume 1
  • Sudoku Large Print Edition - Volume 1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1932-02-08

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2,066
Total plays
5,600

Tags

jazzswingpianoAll40s

Spencer Williams (October 14, 1889 – July 14, 1965) was an American jazz and popular music composer, pianist, and singer. He is best known for his hit songs "Basin Street Blues", "I Ain't Got Nobody", "Royal Garden Blues", "I've Found a New Baby", "Everybody Loves My Baby", "Tishomingo Blues", "Careless Love", and many others. Spencer Williams was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was educated at St. Charles University in New Orleans. Williams was performing in Chicago by 1907, and moved to N

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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    · 2003 · cited 21,263x

  5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,612x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Spencer
Family name
Williams
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
New Orleans
Place of death
Flushing
Occupation
lyricist
Languages spoken
English language
Notable work
Basin Street Blues
Genre
jazz
Instrument
voice
Image
Spencer williams carmel theater 1958.jpg
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date of birth
1889-10-14
date of death
1965-07-14
ethnic group
African Americans
Commons category
Spencer Williams
Sources (1)

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Spencer Williams, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana