Birth of the Blues Format:DVD the group's growing neighborhood myth

the group's growing neighborhood myth was enveloped into a nascent musical movement that would soon forever change the world of popular culture

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Birth of the Blues Format:DVD the group's growing neighborhood mythBing Crosby welcomes in the era of a new kind of music in Birth of the Blues. As a child, Jeff Lambert (Crosby) 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 (Brian Donlevy), singer Betty Lou Cobb (Mary Martin) and trombonist Jack Teagarden (of