Cab Calloway "Saint James Infirmary"

[blackiebeast]

hypnotic, a march through futility. Bizarre, unique, perfect. Carol

[Neverlandlord]

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[botvinnik64]

ooooooooooooooooo shit! 

[AlpinKirkonen]

this is good

[RainbowsWonders]

2 people obviously don't appreciate amazing music... even amazing cannot describe this work of true beauty. I am speechless.

[feloniousbutterfly]

Ahhh Cab Calloway is such a beautiful singer and dancer... Makes all the crap from today look so pointless.

[hewittgaugemusic]

@feloniousbutterfly so true , todays music is nothing new ,

, thanks to''

 Cab Calloway, the king of jive

[BigJiggety]

Brilliant stuff. Both tragic and borderline playful.

[KingRidley]

There needs to be some kind of movement to have people write music like this again. Sort of like how people deliberately make new 8-bit video games because they like the looks/sound, there need to be people writing songs and recording them with equipment that makes this same kind of sound.

You'd think the fucking hipsters would try something like this but they're too busy driving everyone crazy.

[jeremysart]

@KingRidley Haha, I agree

[padredemishijos12]

@KingRidley This is a remake from an old english sailor's ballad about woman (the lover) dying of a venereal disease.

[crocetti1984]

@KingRidley I was nodding in agreement with your first paragraph and laughing hysterically at your second.

[Mratdawntheysleep]

@KingRidley  try cw stoneking ,i know its not the same but he new making wicked old style blues aussie bloke sounds like a 1930s black man. songs of his first album are pretty cool.

[jamie896745]

@KingRidley good comment

[shaikhymx]

@KingRidley you are right! and there are some musicians doing just that, a few but at least there are some: check the work of Brian Setzer and his Orchestra, anything after Stray Cats he has done is in the fashion of the great bands.. also, lately and from time to time, Jeff Beck had recorded and performed works by his idol Les Paul....some real gems are coming out of all this labour of love......peace!!

[hewittgaugemusic]

@shaikhymx two thumbs up

[drraygun]

@hewittgaugemusic pfft...infinity thumbs up :D

[Briiyer]

@KingRidley RIGHT?! You just took the words from my mouth

[hewittgaugemusic]

@KingRidley , drivning me crazy as well , so true , old school music rules ,

[lu4y4pants]

I like Cab Calloway, but he made the song sound too much like Minnie the Moocher...

[Bitmavric]

@PaleGoldLizard: Those things are here too you know, not everyone was born with a silver spoon in their ass.

[ipwnssbm]

I got screwed over on the generation of my birth.

[OMGITSDRJESUS]

@ipwnssbm Oh yes, you and me both, 17 in the pop radio gen..

[butterflysincoffins]

@ipwnssbm I can understand. I think I was born in the wrong era

[yousuckhardtime]

if only they knew how to record in HQ :(

[nc183d]

Thanks for posting this.... it is a treasure.

[wise84]

i'm definitely born at the wrong era .... i will never gonna relive this time ...

[turtleboy227]

@wise84 Yess

[badge930]

This was one of my late father-in-law Michael LaCapero's favorite songs.

[misssailormars88]

LOVE IT

[Killingyourtv]

amazing! one of the best versions I have ever heard 0:35 is an awesome lick!

[FlippinFlaves]

Do you know which recording this is by any chance?

[whipthegoat]

@FlippinFlaves ha, THE best recording!

[furrowin]

superior music

[shrdlu7]

This renition clearly identifies where Brecht and Weill got some of their "Three Penny Opera" ideas from.

[shrdlu7]

Can you hear where Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht got some of their ideas from? I sure as hell can, the intervals and tempos are so redolent of each other.

[retroflow44]

@shrdlu7 Brecht and Weill were contemporaries of this period so, of course they were influenced by the (then) current Jazz arrangements of others. This recording's arrangement is typical of Hot Jazz from the period of say, 1928/29-1933/34. If I had to narrow it down further; 1932.