Louis Armstrong and the All Stars 1960 After You've Gone / The Saints PLUS ... (Live)

After You've Gone/The Saints - The Star-Spangled Banner - Happy Birthday, Louis! Louis Armstrong and the All Stars at The Newport Jazz Festival, Newport RI on July 1 1960. This was a very special day for everyone especially for Satch for whom it was his 60th birthday (it was usually reported that he was born on July 4 1900 but history seems to indicate that he was really born on August 4 1901 anyway this was considered to be his Birthday Concert and this is the Grand Finale so that's it then). (Today is July 1 2011 a very special day for me coz today I am making THIS my 300th up-load to YouTube). Presented here is the medley of "After You've Gone" and "When the Saints Go Marchin' In" followed by The National Anthem of the USA "The Star-Spangled Banner" followed by a crazy rip roaring "Happy Birthday, Louis." After You've Gone: by Tin Pan Alley songwriters Turner Layton and Henry Creamer. When The Saints Go Marching In often referred to as "The Saints", is an American gospel hymn that has taken on certain aspects of folk music. Though it originated as a spiritual, today people are more likely to hear it played by a jazz band. A traditional use of the song is as a funeral march. In the funeral music tradition of New Orleans, Louisiana, often called the "jazz funeral", while accompanying the coffin to the cemetery, a band would play the tune as a dirge. On the way back from the interment, it would switch to the familiar upbeat "hot" or "Dixieland" style. While the tune is still heard as a slow spiritual number on rare occasions, from the mid 20th century it has been more commonly performed as a "hot" number. The Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812. The poem was set to the tune of a popular British drinking song, written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. "The Anacreontic Song" (or "To Anacreon in Heaven"), with various lyrics, was already popular in the United States. Set to Key's poem and renamed "The Star-Spangled Banner." The Band: Louis Armstrong Tp Voc; Trummy Young Tb; Barney Bigard Cl; Billy Kyle Pn; Mort Herbert Bs; Danny Barcelona Dr. Tracks 18 and 19 and 20 of 20. Submited by ULAJAZZ

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• Jazz
• New Orleans Jazz
• Dixieland
• Ragtime
• Blues
• Revival
• Revival Jazz
• Traditional Jazz
• Trad
• Newport Jazz Festival
• Louis Armstrong
• Trummy Young
• Barney Bigard
• Billy Kyle
• After You've Gone
• When the Saints Go Marchin' In
• The Star-Spangled Banner
• Happy Birthday Louis

[InformationMinister]

@TheAngeltoDemon That good sir it is. Personally I wish I was old enough to have been there. Ah well we can always make do. :]

[TheAngeltoDemon]

damn, best national anthem i've ever heard. a true original.

[InformationMinister]

Listenin to the crowd sing, to Louis when he sinbgs when the saint's go marhich in, dayum how can ya not love this??

[noweedman]

great jazz by a man in his sixties (his actual date of birth remains uncertain) + his band. young at heart + great musicians every one of them

[Abriggs500]

Hahaha I love the part when they sing Happy Birthday to Louis!

[JazzmanBerlin]

great upload, thank you for sharing.

i heared of this concert for the first time in Germany.

more tracks from this program would be welcome.