Best version of the song, IMHO. Wish it was available as a single.
@mindboard82034 жыл бұрын
The best and the original version
@ImTruenorth15 жыл бұрын
The bluest rendition of the bluest song ever written.
@aerocoin214 жыл бұрын
The original is still the best! Blues as blues should be!
@k.c11263 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful voice .... I'm hearing this for the first time ... this brings shivers up my spine... There are other versions I really enjoy, but this.... this is art.
@SoraSonorei20225 жыл бұрын
This is FABULOUS!!!
@Mystic015713 жыл бұрын
Appears to be one of THE most covered songs in America, ever. But I haven't found one cover that stands up to this.
@DiogoMatheus-pj8bx3 ай бұрын
A origem dessa música que virou um clássico
@jensenbell10 жыл бұрын
Sung by: William Gillespie - The other actors say that this is "real New Orleans blues". No. The writer, Johnny Mercer was raised in Savannah Georgia. He attended the black churches there and sang with his friends, servants and fishermen. By the time he went to prep school he was steeped in it. When his dreams of Princeton were dashed by the great depression, Mercer too his unique ear into the Vaudeville scene. This song is unique for a reason.
@kathyphillips8823 Жыл бұрын
Harold Arlen wrote it. A Jewish boy from New York. Mercer wrote the lyrics long after Arlen had written the music. It is likely Arlen played it for Gershwin, first. I think they would have hung out in Harlem, where most of the music - jazz and swing - came out of every city along the Mississippi, and Chicago. If they heard the blues, it would have been on the street corners. Correct me, please, if I’m off kilter.
@jensenbell Жыл бұрын
@@kathyphillips8823 This song was written by both collaboratively for a film .. the "music" is a12 bar blues with a sweetly creative twist to the melody but it came together around the lyrics. The lyrics drove the identity of this song. "The music was written by Harold Arlen, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for a 1941 film begun with the working title Hot Nocturne, but finally released as Blues in the Night." 2. "Arlen and Mercer wrote the entire score for the 1941 film Blues in the Night. One requirement was for a blues song to be sung in a jail cell.[7] As usual with Mercer, the composer wrote the music first, then Mercer wrote the words. Arlen later recalled: 3. "The whole thing just poured out. And I knew in my guts, without even thinking what Johnny would write for a lyric, that this was strong, strong, strong! When Mercer wrote "Blues in the Night", I went over his lyric and I started to hum it over his desk. It sounded marvelous once I got to the second stanza but that first twelve was weak tea. On the third or fourth page of his work sheets I saw some lines-one of them was "My momma done tol' me, when I was in knee pants." I said, "Why don't you try that?" It was one of the very few times I've ever suggested anything like that to John." - Harold Arlen
@mikesnowden15 ай бұрын
@@jensenbell Thanks for straightening that out. I just read those exact words on Wikipedia. Did you put them there, or copy them. Love it when people get things right. I HOPE this is correct? Going to do a bit more research than just an internet search. If any corrections I'll come back to it. All the best! :)
@jensenbell5 ай бұрын
Daffy Duck brought me here. I had to know more. hahahaha@@mikesnowden1
@SqueekyFromm13 жыл бұрын
The singer is William Gillespie. He was uncredited in the movie. He also did Porgy and Bess song. Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter
@JJallatte4 жыл бұрын
nothing also in wikipedia
@Twentythousandlps3 жыл бұрын
Bizarre juxtaposition of sorrowful blacks and whites delighted by their "find".
@AllBobsAllTheTime11 жыл бұрын
Johnny Mercer generally nails it and he outdid himself here.
@jazzalex229 жыл бұрын
Looney Tunes bought me here.
@FrizFreddy19948 жыл бұрын
Exactly.
@derrickburwell77777 ай бұрын
Bugs Bunny: 🎵"My mamma done told me, a buzzard is two-faced"... 🎵
@RuBeN72913 жыл бұрын
@arbygil NO WAY!!!!! awsome, great voice!
@DJMeowMixer13 жыл бұрын
@RuBeN729 Black people ARE American music, the foundation if nothing else. Jazz, Rock and Roll, and R&B would not have existed without them. White people created... country music. Nothing to brag about.
@Nettacr12311 жыл бұрын
LUCKY YOU!!!
@AllBobsAllTheTime12 жыл бұрын
@Mystic0157 Just about anything Johnny Mercer came up with (teaming with Harold Arlen here) was heavily covered.
@arbygil12 жыл бұрын
Same as the clip; "Blues in the Night."
@Mannock10 жыл бұрын
Really? That is wonderful!
@melonitis13 жыл бұрын
WOW!!!
@EvanDahill7 жыл бұрын
Somehow, someone wrote that this is Johnny Mercer as the "artist." Er., No. Mercer was the lyricist.
@bhan9913 жыл бұрын
This version is the best I've heard so far. I can't seem to find it on a cd or online. Any ideas? Thanks.
@chbonnet3 жыл бұрын
The song was written for this film, (the film is titled "Blues in the Night) so this may be the only place with this singer to find it.
@mikesnowden15 ай бұрын
@@chbonnet I believe you are correct. In looking up the discography of the song, I believe this is the ONLY time you will hear William Gillespie sing this. FYI: I agree with @bhan99 this is the BEST version, period. Mr. Gillespie's voice & delivery have never been TOUCHED by any of the later covers, IMHO.
@vernmarshall43808 жыл бұрын
I think this one is more bluesy, Sinatra's version has kept the 'torch song' element but taken out the blues - you could say that's the modern jazz approach. In some respects the 2 versions represent the swing era approach and the post-bop approach to such a ballad. For me, the best version is the Ella Mae Morse, Johnny Mercer, & Pied Pipers' version (accessible on KZbin). Mercer's singing, especially, captures the soul of this song. Classy though he always is, Sinatra's just a little too slow for me.
@syourke38 жыл бұрын
+Vern Marshall When I first listened to the Sinatra version, I also thought it was too slow - but the more I listened, the more I came to appreciate how he captured the deep melancholy of the lyrics. Like a lot of great blues songs, it can be taken at different tempos and still sound good. But in Sinatra;s version, there is no swing at all. He sings a dark night of the soul and the loneliness is almost scary. There are no back up vocals at all. Nothing bouncy at all.
@RuBeN72913 жыл бұрын
Segregated or not, like us or don't, african american people letd a great print in the music in the whole world
@rosshalper67084 жыл бұрын
William Gillespie was not credited so couldn’t really build on this appearance. He died t age 60, working in a funeral home.
@LeslieMei13 жыл бұрын
@nodrogceiwonys So they can meld their sonorous voices in a blues song.
@MRL85061610 жыл бұрын
what's the name of this movie?
@EddieHaskelll6 жыл бұрын
Duh.
@AllBobsAllTheTime12 жыл бұрын
@bhan99 Sinatra did a killer version as well, slowing it wayyyyyyy downnnnnnn .....
@orestis9413 жыл бұрын
what's the name of the singer?Way better than the other versions of it.Ledisi does it pretty well too!
@AllBobsAllTheTime11 жыл бұрын
Yeah - it is kind of like the old joke about every rock'n'roll song being a rewrite of 'Yankee Doodle.' But Americans didn't just import music; they synthesized it into multiple new forms.
@JRNipper13 жыл бұрын
@nodrogceiwonys They be segregated, whities in one cell, blackies in the other. That's the way it was done back in da olden times.
@hyamandu12 жыл бұрын
and the name of the movie is????
@traceywhitney127211 жыл бұрын
Actually, without the Black Gospel church root, there would be no jazz, soul or rock and roll...
@zzzzgirl96004 жыл бұрын
We can take it as far back as Africa and possibly farther.. Gospel music is rooted in African music which was a form of communication for slaves!
@seriousbe12 жыл бұрын
@DJMeowMixer Black people used to be american music.Now most (95%) of them are doing crappy things,a shame for such a talented people...
@Khultan14 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I'm feeling that low feeling again. I'm still licking my wounds from being cast aside by a female friend.
@TheIronmonster12 жыл бұрын
@seriousbe american music is black music
@DJMeowMixer12 жыл бұрын
@seriousbe At least we have Li'l B, The Based God.
@catmandu5713 жыл бұрын
@nodrogceiwonys Segregation, this was common in Amerika. Cells for whites, cells for blacks, along with everything else.
@WASUPGUEY13 жыл бұрын
@nodrogceiwonys maybe couse back in the days they couldn't put whites with colored folks i guess (don't mind me i'm drunk lmao)
@Docmananoff11 жыл бұрын
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Surely you jest.
@syourke38 жыл бұрын
Sinatra's version is more soulful, more melancholy, more lonely. He and Nelson Riddle were an incomparable team. Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer wrote the song and they were brilliant.
@kathyphillips8823 Жыл бұрын
Lovely, but too manicured. Arlen wrote it for a voice and a solo instrument with percussion. Ella Fitzgerald.
@syourke3 Жыл бұрын
@@kathyphillips8823 The ding was written for the movie. Like any great blues song, it can be played in various ways and still sound great. The original lyrics by Johnny Mercer are clearly meant for a man to sing. A man in a jail cell.
@AllBobsAllTheTime12 жыл бұрын
@DJMeowMixer And yet, without that Anglo-American country music root, there would be no jazz, no rock and roll, no R&B ...