Birth of the Blues Format:Blu-ray collect the ransom

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Three disc set includes "Wabash Avenue" (1950)

but one dark and stormy night turns his life upside down

Michael Rotenberg

nighttime is the right time to look back at all you've accomplished and "Call It A Day" in these stories of independence and success

Birth of the Blues Format:Blu-ray collect the ransomBing Crosby welcomes in the era of a new kind of music in Birth of the Blues. As a child, Jeff Lambert hangs out in New Orleans' Basin Street, playing hot swing on his clarinet instead of the classics his father prefers. He's inspired by an African American group there and, some years later, sets out to form a jazz band of his own. With cornetist Memphis, singer Betty Lou Cobb and trombonist Jack Teagarden, he's on his way.