Blues in the Night

[TheIronmonster]

@seriousbe american music is black music

[SqueekyFromm]

The singer is William Gillespie. He was uncredited in the movie. He also did Porgy and Bess song.

Squeeky Fromm

Girl Reporter

[bhan99]

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.

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

@bhan99 Sinatra did a killer version as well, slowing it wayyyyyyy downnnnnnn .....

[reptar231]

the best blues song ever written i love im playing this in jazz band

[Mystic0157]

Appears to be one of THE most covered songs in America, ever.  But I haven't found one cover that stands up to this.

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

@Mystic0157 Just about anything Johnny Mercer came up with (teaming with Harold Arlen here) was heavily covered.

[orestis94]

what's the name of the singer?Way better than the other versions of it.Ledisi does it pretty well too!

[RuBeN729]

Segregated or not, like us or don't, african american people letd a great print in the music in the whole world

[DJMeowMixer]

@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.

[seriousbe]

@DJMeowMixer

Black people used to be american music.Now most (95%) of them are doing crappy things,a shame for such a talented people...

[DJMeowMixer]

@seriousbe At least we have Li'l B, The Based God.

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

@DJMeowMixer And yet, without that Anglo-American country music root, there would be no jazz, no rock and roll, no R&B ...

[brimstone33]

Yeow sir, I gots me somma dem no-good, low down, cotton-pikin' blues....all night long...

[hakerkatz]

nodrogceiwonys, the black people in the cell are the musicians. You did see the white boyz in there as well, yes?

Please recall that the blues were not invented by the whites but those they subjugated for their free labor.

That said, what a great set of voices doing a wonderful rendition of an old chestnut. Ciao,

GEO

[arbygil]

:) The singer in this clip was my grandfather.

[RuBeN729]

@arbygil NO WAY!!!!! awsome, great voice!

[nodrogceiwonys]

Why are all the people in the jail cell black?

[catmandu57]

@nodrogceiwonys Segregation, this was common in Amerika. Cells for whites, cells for blacks, along with everything else.

[JRNipper]

@nodrogceiwonys They be segregated, whities in one cell, blackies in the other. That's the way it was done back in da olden times.

[gigirox18]

@nodrogceiwonys So they can meld their sonorous voices in a blues song.

[WASUPGUEY]

@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)

[melonitis]

WOW!!!

[thinkorthwim69]

Watchin the movie now what agreat rendition of a great song Johnny rocked

thanks for the post

[aerocoin2]

The original is still the best! Blues as blues should be!

[Khultan]

Yeah, I'm feeling that low feeling again. I'm still licking my wounds from being cast aside by a female friend.

[Barefootlarry]

This movie was originally titled "Hot Nocturne".

The major song of the movie became more popular than the movie itself, so the movie was re-titled and released again a year or two later under the name "Blues In The Night".

The same thing happened with the movie "Honeysuckle Rose". Willie Nelson's "On The Road Again" got so popular that they changed the name of the movie and re-released it as "On The Road Again".

[dogiehogan]

Clip from DVD 'Blues in the Night' (1941).

(Trailer can be find at Youtube too.)

[ozzyinny]

goosebumps...all over

[ImTruenorth]

The bluest rendition of the bluest song ever written.