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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

A Little Louis

Here is one of Louis Armstrong's versions of St. James Infirmary.  The YouTube video, which sadly has only 11,000 views, is captioned, "A haunting performance from Satchmo."  This version of St. James is dark and slow, it's eerie.  I wonder who Louis had in mind when he sang this, it sounds so real.

If that depressed you too much, here's La Vie En Rose to cheer you up.

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