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Nat "King" Cole and W. C. Handy
Nat "King" Cole and W. C. Handy
Jazz crooner
Nat "King" Cole
and "Father of the Blues"
W. C. Handy
. In 1958, Cole played fellow Alabama native Handy in the film
St. Louis Blues,
based on Handy's life and career and named after his most famous composition.
Courtesy of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame