Black and Blue

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lyricist:	Harry Brooks (jazz pianist & songwriter) Andy Razaf
composer:	Fats Waller

publisher:	Memory Lane Music Ltd. Redwood Music Ltd. (Carlin)

SecondHandSongs:	https://secondhandsongs.com/work/41924 [info]
Wikidata:	Q880634 [info]

referred to in medleys:	Brunswick Brevities: Margie / After You’ve Gone / Black & Blue / Ain’t Misbehavin’ / I’m Nobody’s Sweetheart Now / Harvey / Royal Garden Blues (order: 3) Sleeptime Down South Medley (order: 3)
later translated versions:	Nid mis Problem

Recordings

Date	Title	Attributes	Artist	Length
	recordings
1929-07-22	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue? (studio, 1929-07-22)		Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra	3:08
1929-07-22	Black and Blue [1929-07-22]		Louis Armstrong	3:11
1929-07-29	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue (studio, 1929-07-29: Brunswick matrix 30585-B)		The Jungle Band	3:30
1930-04-01	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue		Ethel Waters	3:04
1939-12-12	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue	instrumental	Muggsy Spanier	2:39
1939-12-12	Black and Blue	instrumental	Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band	2:40
1941-05-26	What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue		Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra	3:04
1944-02-05	Black and Blue	instrumental	DeParis Brothers Orchestra	3:11
1944-02-05	Black and Blue No. 2	instrumental	DeParis Brothers Orchestra	3:22
1945-03-16	Black and Blue		George Zack	2:50
1945-03-16	Black and Blue No. 2		George Zack	2:52
1947-02-08	Black and Blue		Melrose Colbert	4:09
1947-02-08	Black and Blue (live, 1947-02-08: Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA)	live	Louis Armstrong	4:06
1947-10	Black and Blue		Melrose Colbert	3:04
1947-11-30	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue (live, 1947-11-30: Symphony Hall, Boston, MA, USA)	live	Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars	4:37
1947-11-30	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue (live, 1947-11-30: Symphony Hall, Boston, MA, USA)	live	Louis Armstrong	4:14
1947-11-30	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue (live)	live	Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars	4:14
1947-11-30	Black and Blue	live	Louis Armstrong and His All Stars	4:15
1947-11-30	Black and Blue	cover	Louis Armstrong and the All Stars	4:21
1947	Black and Blue		Earl Hines and His Orchestra	3:02
1947	Black and Blue		Earl Hines and His Orchestra	3:04
1948-02	Black and Blue	live	Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars	3:58
1948-09	Black and Blue	live	Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars	3:20
1949-10-24	Black and Blue (live, 1949-10-24: Trieste, Italy)	live	Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars	4:48
1950-03-24	Black and Blue		Gene Krupa and His Orchestra	3:00
1950-10-28	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black & Blue?		Roy Eldridge Septet	3:28
1952-10-18	Black and Blue	instrumental	Bill Coleman	4:10
1953-08-25	Black and Blue	instrumental	Sidney Bechet et son orchestre	3:36
1954	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue	instrumental	Eddie Condon	3:10
1955-04-26	(What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	4:39
1955-04-26	(What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue (alternate)		Louis Armstrong	4:54
1955-04-26	Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	4:39
1955-04-26	Black and Blue (reh)		Louis Armstrong	3:27
1955-12	Black and Blue		Al Caiola	3:45
1955	(What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	4:39
1956-06-01	Black and Blue	live	Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars	3:33
1956-06-01	Black and Blue (live, 1956-06-01: Medina Temple, Chicago, IL, USA)		Louis Armstrong	3:24
1956-06-02	Black and Blue	instrumental	Roy Eldridge	7:35
1956-06-03	Black and Blue	instrumental	Roy Eldridge and His Central Plaza Dixielanders	7:38
1956-07-14	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue (live, 1956-07-14: Lewisohn Stadium, New York, NY, USA)	live	Louis Armstrong	4:11
1957-10-27 – 1957-10-28	Black and Blue		Kid Ory	9:06
1959-09-14 – 1959-09-15	Black and Blue	instrumental	The Lou McGarity Big Eight	3:18
1963-06-19	Black and Blue	instrumental	Booker Ervin	6:15
1963-12-28	Black and Blue	instrumental	Joe Sullivan	2:59
1967-12-07	Black and Blue		Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband With Wingy Manone	3:30
1970-02-05	Black and Blue	instrumental	Ken Colyer's Jazzmen	8:01
1971-10-18 – 1972-01-04	Black and Blue		Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen	2:43
1974-01-28	Black and Blue		Teddy Wilson	3:03
1975-04-07	Black and Blue		Roy Eldridge	4:55
1975-04-07	Black and Blue (alternate take)		Roy Eldridge	5:57
1982-07-22	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black & Blue	instrumental and live	The Dave Brubeck Quartet	7:43
1982-07-22	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue	instrumental and live	Dave Brubeck	7:53
1982-07-22	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue	instrumental and live	Dave Brubeck	?:??
1982-07-22	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue	instrumental and live	Dave Brubeck	7:24
1982-07-22	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue	instrumental and live	Dave Brubeck	7:34
1982-07-22	Black and Blue	instrumental and live	Dave Brubeck	7:54
1985-11-25 –	Black And Blue		Kenny Davern Big Three	5:18
1985-12-08	Black and Blue	instrumental	Paul Bley Trio	4:45
1987-12	Black and Blue	live	Carmen McRae	7:39
1988-01-23	Black and Blue	cover	Peoria Jazzband, Rosemarie Simonsen	3:40
1991-06-29	Black and Blue	cover	The Gene Harris Quartet	6:37
1992-04-19	Black and Blue	cover and live	David Murray & Doc Cheatham	10:23
2015-03-17	Black and Blue	cover	Herbie Klinger, Stefan Werni	5:06
2017-02	Black and Blue	cover	Sandro Gibellini, Gianni Cazzola, Alan Farrington, Alfredo Ferrario, Roberto Piccolo	4:54
2017-09	Black and Blue	cover	Low-Fly Quintet	5:51
	(What Did I Do To Be So) Black & Blue?		Louis Armstrong	3:11
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue	live	Louis Armstrong	4:27
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	4:16
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	4:40
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	4:39
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	4:28
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	4:16
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	4:38
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue (mx. 402535-B)		Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra	3:09
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	4:39
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue		Ethel Waters	3:04
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	4:26
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue		Ethel Waters	2:58
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	4:53
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	2:36
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue	instrumental and live	Dave Brubeck	7:40
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	3:02
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	3:12
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue (Electronically Re-Recorded to Simulate Stereo)	cover	Frankie Laine	2:55
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue	instrumental	Earl Hines	3:31
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars	4:37
	(What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	3:02
	(What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue		Louis Armstrong	3:01
	(What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue		Louis Armstrong	4:39
	(What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue (Album Version)		Louis Armstrong	4:37
	(What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue [album version]		Louis Armstrong & Edward R Murrow	2:36
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue?		Ethel Waters	3:01
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue?		Louis Armstrong	3:12
	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue?		Louis Armstrong	3:11
	(What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue?		Louis Armstrong	4:39
	(What Did I Do to Be So) So Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	3:12
	(What Did I Do To Be So) So Black And Blue		Louis Armstrong	?:??
	(What Did I Do to Do So) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	3:09
	(What Did I Have to do to Get) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	3:33
	(What Did I Have to Do to Get) Black and Blue		Louis Armstrong	3:33
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