I could take the Harlem night and wrap around you, Take the neon lights and make a crown, Take the Lenox Avenue busses, Taxis, subways, And for your love song tone their rumble down. Take Harlem's heartbeat, Make a drumbeat, Put it on a record, let it whirl, And while we listen to it play, Dance with you till day-- Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)- Two young ladies from Minn MN call their band Best Friends Forever "Abe Lincoln" (2008 Best Friends Forever 3:59 mp3): [See post to listen to audio] The first track off the comedian's first LP, Bob Newhart "Abe Lincoln Vs. Madison Avenue" (1960 Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart 7:35 [...]

"History is too often told from a very narrow perspective. Ironically, this tendency inevitably dilutes and diminishes the reality it sought to represent in the first place. In America, these divisions typically fall along racial and ethnic lines. Perhaps no place has been subjected to this monomania more consistently than Harlem. The original village of Harlem was established by Dutch settlers in 1658. 244 years later, it had become a haven for a burgeoning immigrant Jewish community and fifty years later, it was home to an overwhelming African-American and Puerto Rican population. [...]
6 Cardinal Colors: Blue George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue. Henry "Red" Allen, (Trouble Ends) Out Where the Blue Begins. Langston Hughes, Too Blue. Louis Armstrong, Blue Again. Bessie Smith, Blue Blue. Men At Work, Blue For You. The Savoy Orpheans, The Blue Room. Jimmy Rowles, Serenade in Blue. Clifford Hayes, Blue Guitar Stomp. Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, Blue Bonnet Rag. Sidney Bechet, Blue