My eyes swept the floor anxiously, then suddenly I saw lightning strike. I tricked the dancers by arranging a tango introduction, breaking abruptly into a low-down blues. When "St Louis Blues" was written the tango was in vogue. The one-step and other dances had been done to the tempo of "Memphis Blues". Writing about the first time "Saint Louis Blues" was played (1914), Handy noted that I'm not saying that 'Saint Louis Blues' isn't fine music you understand. Handy said his objective in writing the song was "to combine ragtime syncopation with a real melody in the spiritual tradition." T-Bone Walker commented about the song, "You can't dress up the blues. While blues often became simple and repetitive in form, "Saint Louis Blues" has multiple complementary and contrasting strains, similar to classic ragtime compositions. Īudio playback is not supported in your browser. It is played in the introduction and in the sixteen-measure bridge. The tango-like rhythm is notated as a dotted quarter note followed by an eighth note and two quarter notes, with no slurs or ties. The form is unusual in that the verses are the now-familiar standard twelve-bar blues in common time with three lines of lyrics, the first two lines repeated, but it also has a 16-bar bridge written in the habanera rhythm, which Jelly Roll Morton called the " Spanish tinge" and characterized by Handy as tango. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL) are named after the song. The original published sheet music is available online from the United States Library of Congress in a searchable database of African-American music from Brown University. The song was a massive and enduring success. Louis in 1892: "It had numerous one-line verses and they would sing it all night." Handy's autobiography recounts his hearing the tune in St. Louis, Missouri, distraught over her husband's absence, who lamented, "Ma man's got a heart like a rock cast in de sea", a key line of the song. Handy said he had been inspired by a chance meeting with a woman on the streets of St. Problems playing these files? See media help. The 1929 version by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra (with Red Allen) was inducted in 2008. The 1925 version sung by Bessie Smith, with Louis Armstrong on cornet, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1993. Composer William Grant Still arranged a version of the song in 1916 while working with Handy. The song has been called "the jazzman's Hamlet". Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Bessie Smith, Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Guy Lombardo, and the Boston Pops Orchestra (under the directions of both Arthur Fiedler and Keith Lockhart) are among the artists who have recorded it. It was one of the first blues songs to succeed as a pop song and remains a fundamental part of jazz musicians' repertoire. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914. Louis Blues") is a popular American song composed by W.
Single by Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong, cornet
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