Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong - Farewell to Storyville

[TheSeandroog]

Anyone know where I can find this song? I think the recording was destroyed.

[Voodoofoxx]

Some of you obviously have no idea what you're talking about. Storyville was the legalized redlight district in New Orleans. Classy and elegant? hahaha.. you have no idea. Although I love the music, the setting and the people depicted here I just needed to set things straight.

[NETSY296]

@Voodoofoxx What an insulting 'hahaha' idiot. It's called DIGNITY, which you do not have.

[mrushing255]

I first heard Billie when I was 16...I think I would have married her sight unseen and loved her forever just for what I heard in her beautiful voice! I am still so enamored!

[fromill]

nobody does blues like BILLIE and with LOUIS magnificent

[Csimontx]

@bluegrassreb1 Erica Badu is the close's in my book

[Chocolatmenthe]

@Csimontx : Erykah Badu ;) .

[bluegrassreb1]

is there anyone ever going to be like Billie?

[magprob]

I GOTTA GET THIS MOVIE!

[COLOMBANIPM]

MAGNIFIQUE

[EMCEMITCH]

billie was in her ewenties when they made this and at the top of her game

[Alfredovbg]

Muy bueno amigo, muchas gracias por compartir.

[genie120503]

JUST BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!! THANKS!!XX

[PurpleHazeHippie]

Man, she's a beauty.

[R4nd0mn33s]

Definition of class.

[TromboneJer]

For whatever it is worth, I have indeed known an heroin addict with class.

[EEE89]

@TromboneJer it's not worth anything. nothing at all. get a life.

[TromboneJer]

@EEE89

I have a wonderful life Triple "E". How 'bout you?

[redlipstickmafia]

I just saw this movie for the first time last night! And I was born and raised in New Orleans! It was really fun! I love the white girl who can't stay away from the blues club cuz she can feel it. And she was driven around Basin Street to show how dicey the area was. Well I work on Bourbon Street, and I sure wish we could have Storyville back like it was in the old days!

[potatoepeter1]

the good clubs!

[dmahora]

She is the Queen!

[SUGAHMAMA420]

i jus love billie holiday what a woman and boy oh boy could she make you feel a certain way just bu listenin to her music

[arlenerogerswilhite]

one of the few films where you will see Mr. Armstrong talking!!!! classic! Especially wih Ms. Holliday! thanks for the post

[davehutchinson67]

This scene should be in the National Archives. In the Smithsonian and in every school and art gallery in the world. Timeless, classic and something we all could smile and shed a little tear for. RIP MR.LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND MISS BILLIE HOLLIDAY...American originals. They'll be listening to this 500 years from now.

[Tricto380]

@davehutchinson67 amen and i hope they do listen to it that far down the road =)

[kochicago]

yes it was just look how they all drest up ,just great old times,.

[bluesman250921969]

Sarah Vaughan; Nina Simone e Ella Fitzgerald, sono state le regine indiscussa del jazz, ma Billie Holiday veniva chiamata Lady Jazz perchè lei era l'impersonificazione al femminile del jazz

[PREZ150]

Storyville is in Heaven and don't worry Billie and Louis will be waiting for us when our  time come.

[jonldn]

how many people would like the chance to tell Miss Billie Holiday how wonderful she was and to take some of the pain she felt (although I do think she had some good times as well as bad) away . There are times when I dont listen to her for a while then something brings me back and I am refreshed by her artistry - beauty and style . Orginality that we dont always see or appreciate

[SweetHeatLatinJazz]

precioius!

[peaceman4u]

Hey that was there video then!!

hehehe

[sirjuandabicho]

Hermosisimo, muchisimas gracias.

[lain0721]

最高!!!

[franzfelder]

O filme é ruim, mas as músicas excelentes!!!

[hhold]

Times were probably harder in those days but everything was much classier and elegant.

[poznanczyk1990]

@hhold Very well said! I was born in Poland in 1990 but I kind of...miss New Orleans. :)

[azn88hunni]

@hhold because we have everything now, we strive towards nothing

[briancolejennifer]

@hhold This is a movie, not a documentary.

[hhold]

@briancolejennifer

what difference does it make if this is fiction? It doesn't change anything to the point am making... (think hard) ;p

[ThatsaCryinShame]

@hhold its a movie not real life.

[hhold]

@ThatsaCryinShame

what does the fact that this is a movie and not real life - something which I am aware of - have to do my earlier comment and its relevance????

[PowerTrip1771]

billie holiday is such a timeless figure, such a beautiful, classy woman

[jezsmit]

@PowerTrip1771 i have never known a heroin addict that was classy

[jezsmit]

@PowerTrip1771 i have never known a heroin addict that was classy, talented yes but classy? Have you ever been around an addict?

[Tricto380]

@jezsmit Umm...were you ever around her? Pretense: if not, fuck you.

[jezsmit]

@Tricto380 The language that you choose to use in your reply leads me to believe that you know absolutely nothing about class to begin with, rofl

[Tricto380]

@jezsmit Thanks oh definer of 'class', not that I knew I was getting into a class competition. You're the one calling her talented but not classy. Fuck your sense of 'class', you're the only one who appreciates it apparently so keep it to yourself

[jezsmit]

@Tricto380

One of the great things about this country is freedom of speech. This allows me to state my opinion and immature foul mouthed people like you to state theirs also. Good luck with that.

[Tricto380]

@jezsmit Yes, this is about freedom of speech now, not about how you never knew Billie Holiday and still think your judgements of her have any sort of base. The first amendment, my 'maturity' and foul mouth have nothing to do with how stupid your train of thought here is.

[jezsmit]

@Tricto380 Lol I understand completely. I agreed that Billy was talented, agree that the film and music are classic, but unless I agree 100% with your point of view freedom of speech goes out the window. Get over yourself!

[ProfessorAR]

@PowerTrip1771 Looks sure can be deceiving, especially if one is aware of her personal life....

[ePhilosopher9]

@PowerTrip1771 timeless as a happy 2011

[sleeplesscgho]

thanks for sharing....i was not aware of Storyville my father always talk about New Orleans and the quarters.

[HarveyDent18]

I love seein my city back in da day!

[astaynax]

I hear ya cuzin

[locombia87]

Me encantas Billie.......

[4freespeech]

And now, after Katrina, they've shut the

undamaged public housing down, (that

was built on the site of old Storyville) so

half of the black population of N.O. has

nowhere to come back to after the storm.

We think its a TRAGEDY, because the

"soul" of New Orleans was its black

heritage.

[homedepot20car]

Iberville projects are still open.

[DerStresemann]

Oh man, how I love this beautyful beautyful women ....

[czaghost]

so amazing, i love billie holiday

her songs are some of the darkest material

[ReneODeay]

Storyville story true, but... they all just spread out all over the city, no way to regulate, and more disease as a result, Just the thing the Navy was trying to get rid of.

Great irony.

[swinginkatz]

Billie Holiday was tops regardless of what age one is. Check out others on swinginkatz

[marlon1972]

i am awestruck by this film. great thanks for uploading it.

[marlon1972]

that's us---yay---new orleans

[MrJudie80]

Sorry folks, i errored in my following comment, :-(, of course i meant "they DESERVED it "; NOT..."deceived", omgodd, lol

[MrJudie80]

Billie is GREAT!!

Btw i read here this comments with interest, esp concerning in Jews i am interested, i will inform me..

Besides an interesting subject if or if not Hollywood supported black artists and why they succeeded at last and got popular, they deceive it soo much, sooo great artists under them..

[pharcelle1]

When the so called jews were ordered to leave the west bank, they refused and had to be physically removed by the army. But the subliminal message is that black people will just sing a sad song and move on and do as they are told. A total disregard of their recent past.

The author ought to be shot.

[ReneODeay]

and find a way to get around it. don't be fooled

[infrogmation]

As no one else seems to have mentioned it, the tune "Farewell to Storyville" is based on an old blues "Good Time Flat Blues", credited to Spencer Williams, which Louis Armstrong first recorded with singer Maggie Jones in 1924.

[pharcelle1]

Billie will always be Big, but the ugly truth that surrounds her and her peoples is so evident it overwhelms me, Dont you ever stop to think about the bullshit they were going through. sachmo always acted well but I know this is not what they liked doing. Music is all about vibes/vibrations. We could have had something great but i guess no one back then could write a descent script which involved black peoples.

[FunkyFrancek77]

all that bullshit didn't stop them from fighting on : )

[yunasol123]

desde Mexico, simplemente maravilloso

[Memale2009]

Mon dieu, qu'elle était belle à cette époque - comparé aux derniers enregistrements comme "Strange fruit". Quelle différence - causée par les déceptions, les frustrations, les blessures de la vie. C'est lamantable!

[deathofisrael]

Goosebump's,BRAVO,BRAVO!!!!!!!­!!!

[caponsacchi]

Billie is glamor and sunshine 1934-1941, but no less expressive. By 1947 she's starting to take on a harder look along with a more sombre, blues-inflected elocution. It's important to hear Billie early, mid-career, and late career--not just late, when there was a note of ghoulish fascination about the self-destruction that was plainly visible.

[pingtran]

Check out The Noisettes. I think the singer looks like Billy.

[locombia87]

Muy buena Billie.

[PaulaGiraud]

¡Cuánto talento junto!. ¡que maravilla!

[navajo5150]

Thank you for posting! I love Billie. I don't know if it's just the scene, but before she gets up to sing, she looks really nervous...No problem once she starts though.

[Pivotplayer889]

What a beaut!

[kosancicivan]

what's the name of this move?

[cheekeedevilll]

new orleans directed by Arthur Lubin

[8phelo8]

Billie rules!!!

[rockfieldstone]

POWERFULL

[louiseduvee]

And, he messed up his mouth to get this sound! Janis Joplin? Same thing. I just Can't listen, sometimes!

[louiseduvee]

Isw this video off the beat, or is it my connection? WHAT a song, what a scene! Obligato!

[MillerMusicStudiosTV]

WOW!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!! 5*****

Billie is my favorite singer of all time!!!!!

Thanks for posting!

Diane

[conejolua]

Diana, walking through your channel, I found

with this gem, thanks for making a hole in your heart,

besos:) --

Raul ...

[MillerMusicStudiosTV]

Dear Raul/conejolua,

I LOVE YOU! You always know what to say and you bless everyone!

Di

[bluessando]

Fantastica lady Day....mi emoziona sempre!

[rigassifa]

bene hanno fatto i bianchi "benpensanti d'america" a cacciarli da Bourbon Strett,se non li avessero chiusi quei BORDELLI frequentati solo da BIANCHI, mai avemmo avuto modo di sentire simili note e voci tristi e suadenti e storie di emarginazione e vessazzioni e brutali omicidi. Cacciati dai bordelli di New Orlens, frequentati da BIANCHI "degenerati" la musica negra s'è sparsa per tutto il pianeta, facendoci emozionare........ I love you billie

[rodudias]

Preciosa  BILLIE...

[RaGEInSIDeBodY]

This is good!!  =D

[01CUSTER]

Gracias por este video inedito!! Es espectacular. Aqui muestra una cancion cuya letra es muy tradicional

[beckies2009]

i love the jazz !

[deeknits]

BEAUTIFUL...lol @ "what's it to ya, cop?"

[cams1806]

what does billie holiday do for a living in that movie?

please answer if you know the answer! thank you.

[punknn08]

she plays a house maid

[chefessboo]

This is My dad Kid Ory,a film that Orson Wells was involved in ,later left the project.

Sad that it too years for the film to be seen,it was never released for the color barrier was tooo strong

enjoy the music and the muscians i grew up with

Laissez les bon temps roulez

Babette

[Lualaba]

Thanx, Prez.

Noble is the cause for legalization of prostitution. May that it be.

[PREZ150]

The District was closed down by the federal government (over the strong objections of the New Orleans city government) during World War I in 1917. In regard to prostitution, New Orleans Mayor Martin Behrman pronounced that, "[y]ou can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular." After 1917, when Storyville was shut down, separate black and white underground dens of prostitution emerged around the city.

[devosooner]

storyville was a hot spot for drugs, parties, prostitutes, etc...but; it was the birth place of Jazz. Thanks to Buddy Bolden. To bad when he went to the psychiatric ward storyville sank....

[schucrew1111]

How could such a beautiful people be treat so badly... I just don't get it.

I love the oldies, but it is sad..

[BossBra23]

that kind of you....:)

[cocoandcreamshow]

was this like a muzik video back in the day?

[busessuck1]

'tis better than most!

[neomonastiri]

That ' s it !!!

[dondabull]

What a beautiful lady

[keishabartley]

that lady was so pretty.

[sjim1994]

Billie Holiday was one of the best

she was so beautiful too

[bobbyBollyfan]

Satchmo & Lady Day were a delight to behold. They were so ambivalent: their beauty & sorrow were equally obvious. I have enjoyed them since I was a boy & often felt they & many of their peers such as Fats Waller & Dorothy Daindridge deserved better. Mr Obama, like Satchmo & Lady Day is a charismatic delight to behold, hence I hope that all & sundry will agree that today, 20/1/2009 is a day for celebration & I am a white male. Thank you for an amazing post.

[aerofredywr]

What JOY! Lady Day & Satchmo together!

[thehatbloke]

The movie's playing a little fast and loose with the truth about Storyville. It was indeed a prostitution area, and although there were both black and white working girls, only white men could use the Storyville establishments.

Satchmo's first, ahem, exposure to it was helping to deliver coal there as 12 year old. As he said himself in interviews, unlike other black men he could hang around a little and take in the music. Later on, he played as a musician in some of the Storyville cathouses.

[1mediaseeker]

damn. hard times. it's hard times.

[calmdown504]

I'm a native of New Orleans. If you ever come down here, old storyville is now the Iberville Housing Projects next to the treme' neighborhood.

Very racist out here in the nola. Blacks killing eachother doesn't make it any better.

[hornybodhisattva]

how foretelling , then 70 years later katrina would really kick everybody out!

[SteelerJsun]

That bitch, Katrina!

[Franziskus1182]

Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong together in one video - this two giants of early jazz music! It can not be any better than that! I admire them!

[MoRulez]

This is a touching tribute to Storyville. It used to be the prostitution district in New Orleans. The bloom and the decay of this area is wonderfully captured in the movie "Pretty Baby" by Louis Malle. Anyone who likes this Billie Holiday video might like this movie as well.

[bakerskater135]

haha im naked!!! 3

[celticnightstar]

You need to do some research on Storyrville. It was the prostitution district in New Orleans from 1897 until 1917. Called The District by locals, Storyville was set up to limit prostitution to one area so it would be easier to monitor and regulate. New Orleans was trying to legalize prostitution. The Federal Govt shut The District down in 1917 WWI. Jazz did not originate in The District but rather sprang up all over New Orleans as a style of music. However it did flourish in Storyville.

[77pinehead]

I think there was prostitution. Also, Jazz. Old Satchmo was born there. A very good, warm, friendly, non-judgmental town, better than Disneyland anytime.

[timyochengaz]

wasnt storyville a prostitution town?

[1mediaseeker]

every town...is a prostitution town.

[iluvmorrissey]

Its great to see videos of Billie Holiday performing, cos before i had only heard her sing on CD's i have of her.

[vitoscano]

brutal fantastico

[bandrunner57]

My bad, This Trombone player is Kid Ory Russell can be seen on the blues are Brewin from the same movie.

[bandrunner57]

The Trombone player is big chief Russell Moore from Sacaton Arizona. They go out of their way to make sure we don't see too much of him. at 1:50 he is hidden by a pole. You do get a couple of glimpses of him starting at 4:24 Louis was a Big supporter of Russell.

[xemutv]

I cant wait to go to New Orleans!

[1schwererziehbar1]

i think it changed a bit since those times lol.

i heared the black people have been managed out and their homes have been replaced by decadent tourist stuff.

[oundawaa]

magnifique

[lookatdoor]

To all the people who hate New Orleans, you guys are just jealous. As monacobob said, we "invented cool"

[cbeasle2]

That captured it all boy! Without knowing it you got it right

[moviolavideo]

Nâo é o máximo??

Sorte nossa podermos assistir estes vídeos!!

Obrigado, peagahairy

[joebstewart]

I have seen this movie. It is great. One of the very best about New Orleans. Of course anything with Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday has to be good. Another good movie about Storyville is PRETTY BABY with Brooke Sheilds.

[monacobob]

God bless New Orleans. The city that invented cool.....Thanks Louis & Billie

[ReijiAzuma]

She was a very beautiful attractive woman with a wonderful voice and feel for music.

[projectpata]

Wow I didnt know she was so beautiful

[phillytalented]

i was born in the wrong time frame. Billie Holiday was sexy

[flasher555]

How can you possible not like her singing.

Billie Holiday is simply great.

[samsarman]

i can see why people cant enjoy her singing(i WAS one of them).i think you really have to listen to her sing,not just watch.she was awsome if you just close your eyes,she kinda puts you the listener in her shoes,thats what makes her so great rip billie.

[LizzyDouglas]

Billie Holiday (1915-1959) is without any doubt the greatest (blues)singer that ever lived on this planet. Furthermore I'm very thankful for the fact that I've walked around many times in "Storyville".

[keiichicom]

Thanks for posting this, there so many great black lady blues-jazz singers including Billie Holiday such as Ma Rainey, Besse Smith, Alberta Hunter, Aretha Franklin...to name only a few. This is my favourite type of music. :-)

[footballplaya5034]

so why are you pissed im black and im not sayin white people didnt love jazz because i live in a white community and they are in love with jazz but black folks should get credit because they didnt get credit for years so theyre are finally getting reconized

[rockyracoon225]

black people have music in their blood... holiday and armstrong are two of the greatest. RIP

[Pistolero24]

Black people gave so much to music, and to humanity. America owes to them its best creations. I'm a Moroccan and I happen to enjoy what such a great woman brought to life. Music escapes frontiers ! :)

[jasonsback]

people were so much more alive before tv

[drguitar78]

wish I could have witnessed that

[ecrsbelem]

Very, very beautiful !

Bravo

[TheMadChild]

What a chillingly sad and beautiful song. Billie makes it perfect.

[BANJO1941]

This is so beautiful. It brings tears to my eyes

[KimRoks]

o my God shes awesome

[vizion23]

Wow, compare this to what happened in 2005. Eerily similar. People in N.O. will know what I mean.

[bteiv676]

What a fox...Billie Holiday looks so fine...it's sad to see her in the later years before her death...

[efex2007]

It is great when we come across a precious thing we didn't even know it existed.

I'm a jazz fan but I had never heard about this movie. I wonder why a duo with the most prominent jazz singers of all times didn't receive all the attention it deserves by the media.

[kekeabdul]

because they are black

[infrogmation]

Hollywood didn't have the courage then to make the film revolving around Black actors then. The amazing music by some of the all time greats is incidental in the film to a standard sappy story by white actors.

[blommastrass]

I love this so much. Thanks for uploading it.

[gotstrongdotcom]

Very nice, old school second line. I haven't seen this movie yet,but it just moved to the top of my list.

[Cerigan]

I saw it once at a Jazz festival - but can't seem to find the dvd anyhwhere. Anyone got info? It also featured Bessie Smith singing St. Louis Blues.

[schprettywrds]

I love you Billie!!!

[jumpemup78]

bring back Storyville...really save the Cresent City...

[kidfresh16]

this is truly a beautiful song no lie billie holliday has one of the most amazing voices iv ever herd and dont get me started on louis armstrong just an awsome song hands down

[Dcamrod]

Forget the lip synch error on this old video clip, savour that wonderful voice issuing forth from a beautiful and remarkable lady.

[startak14g3]

i love her vice,i own 4 of her records,on 45s,and viynal.what a vice.

[ebonisings]

just beautifyl!

[Suu100]

farewell to Storyville..

[lennhart]

Storyville was located north of downtown, south of Lake Pontchatrain just next to "the Quarter". If it was not the birth place of Jazz it should have been, might have been. A "red light" district, Storyville was an early casualty of WWI. It was ordered shutdown by the US Navy. Can you say "military dictatorship"? Google "storyville district".

[BooNube]

Great video. Is this available on DVD? :-)

[grrrlshapedthing]

yes check amazon

[BooNube]

Thanks! Will do.

[villacoublay]

Billy is the most beautiful human being i've ever seen!

[billieholidayfan]

She is!!!! I agree 100%

[YeshuaKingsKid]

Wow, New Orleans....the past was as sad as now, after Katrina! :( Fantastic video peagahairy, Thank you for posting it!!!

Wasn't Storyville a prostitution district?