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In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers' gangs, he would be asked if he could sing. If he could he got the job. The singing of these working men set the rhythm for the work.

Source: c. 1917; in My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget, by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995.
-- W C Handy, (Nov 16 1873-1958), US composer, singer; The Father of the Blues integrated the blues idiom into the then-fashionable ragtime; composed the classic St. Louis Blues.

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