Bing Crosby-"St. Louis Blues" (Take A)

w/ Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• bing
• crosby
• st.
• louis
• blues
• duke
• ellington

[nenebisbal1]

this music scares me

[bingcrosby1903]

How so?

[ItchMyFoot]

They threw some white singers in there, but Crosby wasn't a blues singer. Seems kinda silly to me.

[rolfaalberg]

I really don't care for Bing but I really like his version of St. Lois Blues too...

[rojoknox]

@coreyikyp - The red-label Columbia 55003 release was circa 1940-41, and was still in the catalog after the war ended, probably up to the beginning of LP releases in 1948. The Brunswick original number would have been deleted by 1939, as red Columbia effectively replaced Brunswick.

[ninjapat]

@AnInfant @nenebisbal1 is an idiot and probably is on drugs

[AnInfant]

@nenebisbal1 whats so "scary" about this music? you on drugs?

[gathyman]

@redd5674 fan-fuckin-tastic

[redd5674]

I have this song done by Bob Crosby. 

[coreyikyp]

@rojoknox - I have one of these! So, was this Columbia red label release also from 1932 (or a much later reissue?).

[BleedblueSTL]

Well Paul, I would say that we don't want you here in St. Louis. We LOVE our "Ghost town." You see, we are the ones with the balls to stay. The rest of them racists left, but not us. And now that we have taken control of the police from the state and fixed the highway, we are coming back and you are not invited. Good day sir! Oh, and Bing rules!

[paulhallart]

been there. I got the hell outa St. Louis so fast they couldn't even see my smoke. first I got the gasoline money by putting in lawns for the bedroom communities in Illinois across the Mississippi, in what used to B prime farm land, and didn't even THINK about busking in that ghost town where the developers turned every slum into luxury lofts renting to the 10%. left 'em stranded on their gamblin boat.

so. yeah, I can see where Handy's commin' from. and Bingo did a good job in this rendition.