The St. James Infirmary Blues

Song by Louis Armstrong.
Crucial Thanks to:
BE @ Mercury Messenger Men
Jon O & Jeff A
Sweet Baby Jesus AKA Mojo AKA Dark Chocolate AKA Pope John Paul II & his Lovely Assistant @ FX McRory's
Young Joolze, for letting me film her even though she hated every second of it. Don't tell her I put this on youtube.

[@TheEnd-vn9rb]

My grandpa used to sing this on his guitar to me all the time. He died last week. All I could think about was this song. Sad but loving. I felt the real blues for the first time.

[@taffyman6089]

Let us not forget Son House -Death Letter Blues.

[@demccll]

my Dad's favorite. Went to Preservation Hall, NOLA- sang to myself and cried thru the whole song they played....cried happy tears.

[@rafiqueahmedsadhozae8085]

Those people had rich taste of music. Such music piece doesn't die.

[@deborahchasteen3206]

Hello, I'm just coming across this. I'm sorry for your loss; of course you still think of him.

[@lmunson1946]

Armstrong really had the feel of the time, wonderful version of this classic.

[@commonsense9474]

Heard this for the first time yesterday at a blues event absolutely awesome young people should not let this sort of music be forgotten. I want this played at my funeral.

[@siddals7920]

I am young and I love the blues!Thanks.

[@PseudoRobot]

Trust me we won't

[@jacobthemaster66]

It would be nice if sheet music for it actually existed

[@stewartfenton7660]

@@siddals7920 this is not the blues. I love early jazz, and I love the blues. Jazz musicians have an incorrect idea of what the blues is, and Alan Lomax himself will back me up on this.

[@eviljesusproductions]

Its nice to see people still appreciate good music

[@secretidentitynetwork3085]

Louis' vocals are so crisp and clear. The sound on this is fucking unreal and that's on my phone- thx!

[@roninreturns]

Oh my, what more can I say but "Oh my!', This is some fat NOLA jazz and blues, and an important song. This is the heritage to hear, if you are new, and learning the history. You will never forget this song and version, it will be in your heart and soul.

[@miroslavveselka3327]

Tak to je zatím nejkrásnější verze této nádherné bluesové klasiky. Díky moc za ni !!!

[@andydunn5673]

Agreed

[@3dg323dg3]

So many versions of this classic out there. Satchmo!!!! Unbelievably the version by Hugh Laurie (yes, that’s House, that’s Prince Regent) is also beyond outstanding.

[@deborahchasteen3206]

It is! Check out Jon Batiste, and Tom Jones and Rhianna Giddens together for stellar versions.

[@marielaveau6362]

I like this version as much as I like the Cab Calloway one. Both are legends.

[@chrisflaherty8991]

Eponymous with the New Orleans voodoo priestess.

[@chardtomp]

No one sang that tune like Satchmo. God Bless him.

[@thejunglevip8839]

Sad, Deep, and Beautiful

[@TheElegantShadow]

So could, so sweet, so fair.

[@Lenniiii]

The jungle VIP I can be human too.

[@Gabyblues04]

The most beautiful version of the blues of all the blues. GREAT !!!

[@CravenWolf1986]

Words cannot express... 5/5 and Favorite. I wish I could rate it more than once.

[@male3339]

Now this is the Blues.

[@buddyzroadie]

Awesome job on that video!!! I love that song and you made it even better! I especially liked the couple dancing above it all at the end, and the open locket by the headstones! :-)

[@123must]

Absolutely beautiful ! Thanks a lot

[@kyfriedmomma]

the best video of "St.James Infirmary" I've seen.

[@LeahVictoriaBleich]

I just saw a show at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival called "The Unfortunates", which is based on this song, and the effect that music can have on people's lives. It was absolutely stunning, and it's helped me to appreciate this truly wonderful song.

[@esmeraldaslifefandango7594]

My favorite by Satchmo. Love the video. Thanks for posting.

[@Anikamism]

J'adore ! sublime interprétation, vidéo intéressante.

[@allen6924]

Wow that was epic Blue mood of spirit. The film really captures the blues when someone you have loved is gone.

[@jackogreen23]

I've been hooked on the van ronk version for some time now, and thanks to youtube I now found this and the calloway version and the white stripes one... seems to be one of those songs I just can't get enough of (same with Amsterdam, Wayfaring stranger, ...)

[@Tantalus52]

This video was a labor of love! Thanks for your hard work and creativity.

[@newfful]

Wow. Not only the song but the video is very well done.

[@tonycarton8054]

possibly one of the loveliest songs i ve ever heard .It is like an Irish lament slainte from Ireland

[@xyon9090]

I've watched and listened to more than 4 versions already and I won't stop at that.

[@yosoydeyarumal]

best of the best.... Ever.... With that wonferful clarinet.......

[@jannemann04107]

Very great creative work. Thanks! Regards from Germany

[@vivianacompiano5999]

Definitely beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

[@Visitkarte]

This is such a beautiful video, absolutely brilliant, and the sweet voice of Luis Armstrong! Aaach, if I could wish to have one single man back from the dead, it would be him!

[@tired_of_u_ppl7985]

I love this video so much I’ve watched it quite a few times over the span of about 10 years 😌🤍🕊

[@franm.k.5832]

I had this in an old traditional songbook going back to the 1800's when I was a kid. My version said, 'l went down to St James Infirmary, I saw my baby there. She looked so broken and downhearted. She used to be mine" Wish I'd kept that book!

[@arnoldwegstern5124]

Marvellous. The warm clarinet-sound of Martin Schmidt-Hahn could fit in as well

[@dextercooper3090]

BEAUTIFUL ❤️‼️ POIGNANTLY BEAUTIFUL 💛💚💜🤜🏾🤛🏻

[@MyMoppet52]

A great video to go with the great song. This is a masterpiece!!!

[@ovans7]

what a video. Bravo. The music we know and love

[@mony0cukero]

soo gooooood =))) i really love Earl Hines playing this

[@paulwallis8437]

you who put this together... really nice!

[@DirkjeA]

Touched me deeply. Can't express in words what this song did to me other than it gave me goosebumps all over, as a great song can do.

[@gahan101]

Tremendous version,very emotional.

[@Romeowasbleeding1]

Shivers all over.

[@dimitrispapagounas7955]

A very nice and sweet song ....

[@michaelbabinski9030]

What a great Video! Of course the song is the best... but you really did it justice.

[@Anikamism]

J'ai un petit faible pour la version de l'Omer Simeon trio, la première en fait que j'ai entendue. Mais celle de Sachtmo est elle aussi magnifique. Et la vidéo est superbe. Musique et vidéo sont bouleversantes.

[@123voltereta]

great job. well done,guys

[@marionnewberry9736]

I learned to love good jazz early in life - my father had a better recording of this on a 78. Hopefully I've still got it his 78's on tape....... He used to go to Foyle's Book Shop in London and swapped 78's with Chris Barber ( nicknamed Stuttery Sam?). Dad wanted 'Ramblin' for his funeral - Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you - the liquor must! He'd hold Jazz Nights in our Pub mid-week in the 60's and it was like standing room only!! House of the Rising Sun? - Check out the original Josh White recording (B side Strange Fruit),

[@dizrim]

i like how out of all the bands in the world the white stripes did a cover on this and didnt make it sound like crap. but still this is great to

[@klausmair2807]

G r e a t Luis Amrstrong - so cold, so sweet, so faer _ ist`s amazing ! WOW. Not only the song but the video is very well; thanks .

[@Blindianboy]

wow! i haven't heard this version of the song. a bit more up tempo and playful than the other. can't say which is better (and that's a good thing) great video too!!

[@samreayable]

Pure Magic.

[@jeanettearseneault100]

Wonderful!

[@_OkayC]

I love this song, I will always appreciate old music

[@Protomanbeawsome]

If you did not know that was Cab Calloway, another famous jazz artist. He was in The Blues Brothers movie too.

[@robinmark64]

The song, the video, awesome!

[@jazzjanne1]

Outstanding!

[@aureliodasilva4160]

Belo e trágico!!!

[@derekking7738]

Well done. Ya got it!

[@yaelpalombo4093]

Meraviglia assoluta❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ideoteqa]

I want this at my funeral

[@sheebacat9]

I LOVE THIS MAN.

[@elfishimp]

Awesome

[@robertcoyle1532]

Still the best ever!!!!!

[@aureliodasilva4160]

Linda canção, estranha despedida da amada.

[@ЦветанД]

so simply,so right,so fair

[@robertlivingstone442]

Great!

[@Martel4]

Great video too by the way.

[@ediennega7880]

This is homework for me I have to listen to it and learn it and play it on my violin but other then that it's a nice smooth song

[@Prof.MuriloPereiraDias]

perfeito....lindo!!!! muito lindo!!!!!

[@alaindaubresse2161]

Sublime

[@Kimarnic]

Came from Don't mess with King Dice, this is some good calm music

[@Aureovulpes]

it's oddly nostalgic and depressing but incredibly beautiful, i'm here for cuphead too!

[@Volgeblanc]

WOW!!! speechless

[@richardmoon1852]

Thanks a bunch.

[@richardmoon1852]

Thanks again.

[@jbily0]

i smiled so hard at this i cried

[@perrogris9646]

Gracias por compartirlo!

[@zondy2009]

Thats good. Happy for ya!!!!

[@lilrolterBigBluesMama]

Extraordinaire vidéo !!!!! BigMama §:-)

[@Martel4]

Amazing

[@ohyeah81]

thanks everyone for the positive feedback. this version of the song came from the "Satchmo Plays King Oliver" album; you can follow the iTunes link above if you'd like to purchase a copy :)

[@smokakoka]

box-back suit, double breasted…rare lyrics…like it better then Statson hat

[@LRBMusic1]

Oh my! That trumpet!

[@A1l2l2e2n4]

I've heard it said "You don't sing the blues to get the blues; you sing the blues to get rid of the blues."

[@Medusawithglasses]

Ufff your the man, Pops

[@martinjanssjanss5905]

this song is originally from holland ; johannes snoeker wrote it in 1888 because of the opening of a new hospital

[@raulquiroz775]

OCTOBER BLUES

[@francoisepianet8584]

La musique que j'ai choisie, depuis plus de 40 ans, et inscrite dans mon "assurance cercueil", pour ma "crémation".

[@mediathequedelattes1282]

Le plus tard possible, Françoise...

[@michelbatista9483]

Si Vous me le permettez, j'espère que Vous êtes tjs de ce Monde et qu'ainsi Vous pouvez tjs écouter ce magnifique morceau .

[@chrisflaherty8991]

Louis Armstrong. Been a while since I've heard his music.

[@philipchek]

Superbe vidéo :)

[@aboutashow]

I'm 18 and I like it. You asked if someone your age liked it, someone replied, and then instead of finding something in common with them you accused them of lying. Teen logic!?!?

[@yaelpalombo4604]

Magnifica versione di sempre💖💖💖💖

[@Elliottoes]

Actually, no one knows where the song came from. It has strong roots in the US, but could even have originated in the UK. No one knows. But from my understanding, Louis Armstrong's version was a particularly iconic one. He voice was perfect for it, and allowed it to be sung in a way that (from what I know) no one had done before. I'm not a true Louis fan, but his gruff, houndish voice brings out something in the song that so many other musicians have tried to replicate or expand upon.

[@andydunn5673]

I didn’t actually know that. I thought all early blues and Jazz originated in the states. Certainly blues can be traced back to 1920 in the Deep South.

[@Elliottoes]

@@andydunn5673 Hmm. I wrote that comment long ago, and was probably talking out of my behind. I guess I was suggesting that it could've originated from an English folk song or something - but if you look at the wikipedia page (including the section under "Theories about historical sources") it seems clear it came from an *_American_* folk song called "Gambler's Blues" and that the theories trying to connect that song to earlier folk songs seems a stretch?

[@williamfagan7835]

@@Elliottoes All previous recorded versions had been called Gambler's Blues before Louis recorded this as St James Infirmary in 1928 - the story is here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James_Infirmary_Blues. The version on this video is from 1959. Despite the previous title, Louis was probably the first artist who could play and sing the blues to have recorded the tune.

[@Regressor13]

love it!

[@MelvinatorX]

opened it up not knowing who artist was. didnt even have to look once i heard the trumpet. also first time i heard this.

[@HexifiedMusic]

Koko the Clown :-)

[@quartzations3297]

You’re the clown

[@majnkrafcikers]

@@quartzations3297 Your name says so

[@MrTheLighter]

the blue spirits are in the room..

[@oughtssought1198]

great video for a great version of a great song is there another song with such a wide range of very different versions?

[@ohyeah81]

@LittleQueenie55 It was Rudolph Valentino's funeral. The footage can be found on The Sheik/Son of the Sheik DVD, it's available off Netflix if you're interested.

[@carolinarivas3889]

que belleza

[@daniielt.s717]

obras Maestras ❤💪

[@wam2die4]

0:40 wow wtf!!!

[@MrJohnHelper]

MACBA of Barcelona took me here

[@retrolectrovideo]

Oh. Louis!