I do not claim that my selections are a definitive collection, but they offer the song in a wide variety of approaches, styles, keys and tempos. The recordings discussed below were included in a compilation I created in 2003 which collected 48 different recordings of the Handy classic recorded between 19. In the recordings discussed below, we’ll hear lyrics that were part of the original song ( I love my man like a schoolboy loves his pie) and several that were not ( If you don’t like my peaches, why do you shake my tree?). Louis, you can win him back, does not appear in any recordings that I’ve heard. But the second A of the second chorus, Gypsy done told me, don’t you wear no black/Go to St. The familiar I hate to see the evening sun go down lines appear as the first stanza, and the Went down to the gypsy to get my fortune told lyric recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1954 is the first part of the second. There are lyrics for three choruses of the AAB and 5 choruses of the final A. The original sheet music lays out the form as AABA with the A sections 12-bar blues and the B, a 16-bar tango. An instinct that wanted so much to live, to fling its arms to spread joy, took them by the heels. Something within them came suddenly to life. I tricked the dancers by arranging a tango introduction, breaking abruptly into a low-down blues. In his autobiography, Handy describes an early performance: When St Louis Blues was written, the tango was in vogue. What made the song unique was its 16-bar tango section which alternates with the 12-bar blues choruses. The three-note motive that dominates the final chorus (Got the Saint/Louis Blues/Just as blue/as-I/can be) was said to be derived from a black preacher’s incantation during his church offering. While the location of the story has changed over the years, there’s little evidence to contradict the story as a whole. It is said that Handy was inspired to write the song after hearing a woman in the street sing My man’s got a heart like a rock cast in the sea. Tom Lord’s online “ The Jazz Discography” lists over 1800 jazz or jazz-related versions dating from 1915 to 2010 (and that does not include alternative titles such as “The St. Handy, the song was not the first to incorporate the blues (Handy’s 1911 “ Memphis Blues” has that honor), but it was Handy’s greatest success, recorded thousands of times by musicians of nearly every genre. Louis Blues” is perhaps the most venerable of all standards. 05 - Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra.11 - Billy Eckstine & The 1953 Metronome All-Stars.03 - Glenn Miller & His Army Air Force Band.22 - Little Jazz (Roy Eldridge) & His Trumpet Ensemble.15 - Stephane Grappelli & Django Reinhardt.02 - Dixie Stompers (Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra).
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