Brothers Aaron "Pinetop" Sparks and Milton Sparks wrote "Every Day I Have the Blues" in 1935, developing the song during performances in St. Louis taverns. Pinetop recorded it on July 28, 1935, featuring his piano and distinctive falsetto vocal in a twelve-bar blues format. Though later reworked by Memphis Slim in 1949, the original composition by the Sparks brothers established the foundation for what became a blues standard, with famous versions by Count Basie with Joe Williams and B.B. King.
