Birth of the Blues
|Birth of the Blues
Status: Released
Runtime: 87
Release Date: 07/11/1941
Origin Language: en
Origin Country: US
Languages: English
Production: Paramount Pictures
Countries: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0 (0)
Music
Romance
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
