"Chloe, Song of the Swamp" - Tuba Skinny/Royal St.

A member of the audience and Barnabus have a humorous exchange before the band plays. April 1, 2022 on Royal St., New Orleans.

[@contralt3075]

That clarinet player has some expressive and powerful vibrato i had to keep replaying his solo

[@DanPurdy1]

A great song done beautifully. They are always incredible. Thanks, again. That was a really good day. Much glad to see the sax player.

[@JanSax3]

Wonderful cornet player!

[@svenarnebyfeldt9066]

@@JanSax3 Shayes new Cornet is a Bach Stradivarus Model 184, known as the Shepard's Crook.😎🤠

[@kimcarter9214]

Love this band! Love this song!

[@lapinosbargeot6416]

Hello it's always a real pleasure to listen to you play. Thank you friendly. A frenchman tring to correspond in english

[@MarkWYoung-ky4uc]

Great song and a wonderful solo by Todd. Thanks for sharing James!

[@mikefrmack]

Love these peeps just found em know they been around for 10 years love love love : ))))

[@РусланАлексеев-е4ч]

Really mighty nice to hear and watch! Well done! A lot of thanks!

[@chesterraybon3442]

Among the first songs I heard playing on the street in 1969 on my first trip to New Orleans. TS gives it a bunch more depth though. Thanks again James

[@lindien6848]

Bonjour,il est 18 h 00 en France , merci pour ce super morceau, toujours un très grand plaisir à vous écouter 😃😃, que Dieu vous bénisse 🙏🙏😘

[@dougreid2351]

Excellent quallity vid & sound. Excellent. Thanks once more. Please don't let one of those cars muck you out! DOUGout

[@JamesSterling]

Hah! I had to move my feet a few times to keep from getting them run over.

[@larryeddings3185]

I love TS! 👍👍

[@emiliolopezify]

Great tune. They played it not so often. It is the last track on their album "Blue Chime Stomp".

[@paulgrimm6850]

Sending all my love to Tuba Skinny

[@Confederado1]

Great job, folks. New to me. Thanks.

[@rty1955]

Cant wait to see you in Newport!

[@billblock8090]

Awesome like fine wine better as they age a little. Does anyone have any idea when T.S will be in N.O. in the fall? planning a trip from Texas. Left N.O in 1963 miss the music so much.

[@JamesSterling]

They usually return in October but start checking the schedule on their web site around August and September to be sure when.

[@PopsCoffee]

Many thanks, James. 'Chloe' is a 1927 song by Charles Daniels and Gus Kahn. It's an appealing 32-bar song and yet it is eerie. Though it is theoretically in the key of C, it uses a lot of C minor, D minor and G minor chords, so it feels like a minor-key tune. The words are odd too - about somebody hunting for Chloe in a swamp. Searching for a girl at night, through swamp lands, and going through smoke and flames? How on earth did this situation arise? Weird, isn't it? For example 'If it's wrong or right, I got to go where you are. I'll roam through the dismal swamp land searching for you, 'Cause if you are lost there, let me be there too. Through the smoke and flames, I got to go where you are...'. For my blog discussion of this song (and the sheet music), see: playing-traditional-jazz.blogspot.com/2017/02/post-477-chloe-song-of-swamp.html

[@georgemuse4582]

Think of the swamp as symbolic of some bad life situation

[@ykrgfk]

It is a very strange song - so much so that Spike Jones version is hardly stranger.

[@PopsCoffee]

@@ykrgfk Agreed.

[@nataeva]

Marvelous!!! great thanks and good luck to all the talented musicians !

[@johnr5545]

Nice love it. god bless

[@johndavis6119]

Beautiful

[@tomnelson1340]

Classic Tuba Skinny 👍🏻

[@edmondmcdowell9690]

👍 Good old song. Benny Goodman had a swinging version of this if you ever come across it.

[@lucasmembrane4763]

It was a popular pop standard until Spike Jones took it apart in the early 1940's. This version is nice enough to resurrect it and more. Very good music. Thanks so much to Tuba Skinny.

[@marcelrietdijk5968]

This was today? w0w!

[@JamesSterling]

No, read the caption in the first seven seconds of the video and read the description below the video. I always give the date of the recording. It is not the same date that the video is posted (usually.)

[@mikierp]

"If you live I;ll find you" ...want to go where you are ... One of their best ...Mikie

[@motleystl]

Thank you so much.

[@alopuhin]

Люблю такие неспешные с rubato вещи!...

[@axeleast8632]

The Al Cohn Quintet recorded this tune in 1956.

[@brendamello2202]

And his super talented grandaughter and her band play a beautiful version 66 years later. I'm sure Mr. Cohn is looking down from Jazz heaven proudly.......................

[@bobboscarato1313]

My bass trombone is a Bach Stradivarius; only 25 y/o.

[@guitarslim56]

Lotsa cars on the pedmall today.

[@bobboscarato1313]

Hello Barnabus: How old is your King trombone? I've one that is about 58 years old.!

[@Eatokraeveryday]

UNION RULES

[@jackcudney1538]

Now fir the dog!

[@racefan601]

kinda sounds like the "Oh, Papa" song

[@jdk096]

Music is great! Is the bad on Royal street every day?

[@JamesSterling]

No, only occasionally.

[@jukejointjack]

The cars need to go another way

[@DanPurdy1]

This is a city street. The drivers and walkers have a right to be there.

[@frederickwise5238]

The word is that Royal St will be closed to traffic (again) later - I think May sometime.. A lot of us emailed the Mayor back in early April. after the cops closed them down claiming they blocked traffixc. (does it look like it???) LOL

[@JamesSterling]

@@frederickwise5238 It was closed to traffic again on April 26th after much protest with city hall. Busking was not allowed during FQF last week because stages were set up on Royal but should be back this week.

[@frederickwise5238]

@@JamesSterling I wonder how much effect my Apr 6th email had. I have some contacts among truckers and I suggested to her that if Royal St wasnt made available to the groups I would speak to my contacts and since NO wasnt all that far off of I10 and there was a fgood chance we see if we could get a convoy to shut down more than a few New Orleans streets.

[@VladimirLukovRussianHistory]

I wish to borrow this song instead of "The Swan Lake" melody which would mark the collapse of Putin as that tune marked the end of the August 1991 pro-communist coup' deta...We'll be happy.

[@rezzab]

Of course a great band, this tune was recorded by Shay’s grandfather Al Cohn.