Armstrong, Louis - Basin Street Blues Lyrics

Years ago when I was in college, one of my classmates was a singer from New Orleans and he sang this song often at our gatherings, and always used the word MASIN , not basin street.......Hah......was he speaking a neighborhood dialect or what ?? ........I'm sure ole Louie Armstrong would not sing it incorrectly.........so, what am I to believe? Any comments , you guys?

Come here because Ong Seong Wu

I just cry when I listen to this splendor..!

This is about Basin street(Baku_Azerbaijan) Master was been and lived in Basin street_Baku 1961

Jazz the way I like it: slow and slinky, full of suggestion and time.

Sachmo fué, es y será uno de mis preferidos .....!

CLASSSSSIC..

👍🏼👍🏼 😀

This song makes me cry on the intro and trombones backup, I don't know why but it will make me remember every time I heard this song with my mom.


She loves jazz.


Love your parents, before it's too late

Biggard with his exquisite touch.

Once there was Louis Armstrong....just once!

All time favorite jazz piece. Many great memories with friends when I hear this one

Louis you’re the Jazz Music. You’re wonderful and the best! 👏👏👏🔝🔝🔝👏👏👏🔝🔝🔝

👍👍👍👍 I love it so great 👍👍👍👍

I was probably thumping to the beat in my mothers' womb, listening to Louis Armstrong on the radio. Maybe I was in cot, I knew this man had a sound that was special, before I could even walk or talk! Magic.

My partner wants me back cos of theese awesome musics

Who are these f*ckwits that give this 61 thumbs down. Jeez there's a lot of folks out there urgently need to get a life going ............. idiots 😂😂

yes, Satchmo, I'm feelin' just like that.

👌🏻

As good as it gets.

We sure could use more of this music and personalities!

Its kewl listining to amazing songs about ur hometown

I ve been searching for this song in different versions cause I like it very much. To be honest, the one I like the most is from the great Chicago concert in 1956, in my opinion has a better tempo, but this is the second one. The ones from the 20s I expected to be more dixieland but surprisingly they are not.

Louis Armstrong Legado musical universal.

Satchmo superLEGENDA.Nostalgie,Liebe ohne Ende.

Man, it would be a trip to be in New Orleans during the Blues & Jazz festival, especially going to the places most tourists don't go.

Thanks Spencer Williams for writing this song. Basin Street was the main street of Storyville, New Orleans red light district at the turn of the 1900's, and one of the places where Jazz was born.

it's right !....SUPER LOUIS !!!

Contre la sinistrôse , un peu de jazz , ça ira mieux , vous verrez !

2019 here

He was a genius

Say Heah, I got'His moutpiece that's on that stamp, and, the picture with him with hat (french made), I gold plated it, L@@K'n good on my silver, King'Coronet, Ohhhh'Yeahhhhhh.,,.p

What year is this version from? Because I know at least two others he recorded.

This songs gunna play when I die

Singing this for chorus

Piękna muzyka

so jazzy! Go louis!

I like it in the middle when the sleepy time jazz stops and the drummer starts rolling around all feisty on the skins and then it breaks out it to that happy "who know why we are all here but don't you wanna be a part of it" joyous dixieland jazz

noone is really sure why we are all here what it really means if anything and where its all going but while you are here don't you wanna sing dance play some jazz on a warm Paris spring night? Don't you want to rejoice and be a part of it all even if its over way to fast... this is what this music says to me whenever I here happy passionate new Orleans jazz

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I love ya Pops! ❤

You can recognize Billy Kyle's piano after 3 notes. His right hand fingers are so incredibly tender, it evokes almost pornographic associations. How must a piano feel to be treated like that?!

C'è solo da piangere ... per la commozione ascoltando tanta bellezza ...

So glad I found a girl who will listen to this music of love and happiness with me

@AllRiseForDrEvil do you know which version this is/where I could find it on iTunes? This is my favorite version by far and I have not been able to find it as of yet :(

who the fuck actually bothers to dislike Armstrong? How can you dislike him? He is one of the most nice, happy, peaceful person i know, not to mention excellent musician and composer. I mean, look at him, he is the happyness himself, don't know if you get mt point

SO COOL,GREAT QUALITY,FANTASTIC SOUND,THANKS FOR SHARING

One of the Greatest Jazz Trumpeters of All Time.

Questa è la VERA , AUTENTICA BASIN STREET.

Visiting French Quarter in July 2017

Come back in 2019!

ooh lawd its them old negroe blues way down i new Orleans late at night breezes blowing through the honey suckle roses and the sound of laughter from the clubs all right take me on down honeychild!

Чудо 20 століття

who are the other musicians please , Allrise ?

Favorite Louis Armstrong track. So much fun to listen to!

Not often that you hear Pops backed by sax.

Simply beautiful, this is one of my favorites from Pops, just added to my playlist. Yes it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing lol, Thank God for this jazz solo trumpeter genius of all times and thank you for uploading.

kako svira

Sem palavras...

Can anyone recommend music similar to the second movement here when it becomes up tempo? That Disney feel is so good.

Andrew Lombard try listening to the music from princess and the frog

most of his plays WC Handy album is bubbly and brilliant

The piano intro in this song is outstandingly beautiful...

What I find really interesting about this recording, is the way it is developed. The microphone appears to have been placed in the middle, and it really pics the surrounding audio up, there is a depth you can feel, with the the rhythm section mostly on the left, and the saxophone on the right. This is a legitimate recording, and those can be pretty rare, nowadays. You can tell because there is an actual depth and live audio. This is awesome, I hope I found more of these!

Saw him live and up close at the Minneapolis car show circa 1965. I can still see him.

this is a medicine for the human soul, my soul...

BRUH WTF WHY!?!?!??!

I'm wrong! It's Peanuts Hucko on clarinet and Krupa on drums, so I guess this version is from the film.

The line-up is Louis, Barney Bigard (clt), Trummy Young (tbn), Bud Freeman (tnr sax), Billy Kyle (pno), Arvell Shaw (bass), Kenny John (drums): it's a "remake" of the version in the 'Glenn Miller Story', which had Gene Krupa on drums and a different tenor player.

This is definitely not Bigard playing clarinet, but Hucko. And the sax sounds more like Eddie Miller than Bud Freeman. Mary Ralph's personnel indications of seven years ago seem more plausible to me.

Mary Ralph has it precisely right. By the way, Krupa AND Co+y Cole were the drummers on "Basin Street" for The Glenn Miller Story performance. It may have been one of Co+y's last turns with the All Stars before Kenny John came on board. The tenor player for that performance was Ernie Caseras I believe.

my favorite song...the emotion in the beginning is just to beautiful..

Ahh... Nothing Like The Good Ol' Armstrong To Listen To In The Mornings....

Yes, it's the best. Played with sensitivity and not hoked up like it it is often play.

Bob Kemper Couldn't have said it better my self.

Totally agree. Too many Dixieland bands forget this was originally bar music; it's supposed to have 'feel' to it. I've always thought it is supposed to be a little loose. The happiest days of my life were spent playing tuba in a dixie band when we busked for a couple of summers after high school. The other guys in our band were all friends of mine from HS. we are all still friends, now 40 years later.

I love this song

I love this man............he was a super human being.........met him in SW Louisiana when I was about 8 years old............treasure....

damn that's something. Fells nice to have some positivity in this part of youtube. Edit : if you don't mind, what's your age? mamatibbors?

Join the club.

which album is this specific version?

Extremely rare Louis Armstrong song right here have a listen - :)
https://soundcloud.com/user-129853371/theres-no-you-louis-armstrong

Personnel?

Beautiful!!

ETERNO LOUIS ARMSTRONG !! Y GRAN "BASIN STREET BLUES" !!. también muy bien interpretada la versión de Andrea Motis-Joan Chamorro y Ricard Gil !!. NO SE LA PIERDAN...

Hola SNPP. que grande Louis Armstrong!!!!

forever my favorite jazz piece ever.

In my humble opinion - This is probably one of the best recording of Basin Street Blues... Tempo and the "Lean Back" is excellent. Louis is singing with feeling and the fills made by the sax are just smash on... Later in the tempo chang, there is a lot of energy from the solist... Every body in the band are giving the best, and while solo are done they all show respect for the soloist... This is a state of the art Band... Cream to my ears! Thanks for charring this tune with me and others :-)

I love this version but his 1964 version was really great too

There is a reason why my mom referred to Louis as "The Professor". because no one else can perform a number like this better!

Louis el mejor de todos los tiempos.

Que pena con el señor louis,en el Nuevo Circo, pasamos tremenda pena, Armstrog perdoneme, yo no estaba naci en el 59,pero igual me da pena saber que ese publico no lo supo apreciar,,,

Don't you just hate the advertisements? They make you wait for this great music.

YouTube adblocker, yo'.

Princess Bubblee iphone?

Zack krohn yes, about that. See, there’s this thing called jailbreaking, and without getting too technical it is software they allows you to gain root access to your iPhone, basically meaning you can make modifications that would normally not be allowed. One of these modifications is a system-wide adblocker, which blocks YouTube ads as well as many ads on the internet in safari. That is currently the only sure way to block ads on iPhone.

Does anyone have the lineup for this band?

Anybody see "Confederacy of Dunces" at the Huntington Theater in Boston? This was the opening song!

Its my music.

❤️❤️❤️

Definitely the best version online, a little longer, but not in a bad way. I love this one, and if you wear headphones, you feel like a million bucks after listening. I like it!

Era un grande. I remember him well.

I have fond memories of listening to jazz in Louis Armstrong Park on Bourbon Street in March 2015.

+Colin Ritter Fab! A city like no other.

+Rick Autry you're acting like the same people who treated him poorly are now selling Satchmo t-shirts and rolling around in money from it. The community decided to name a park after him. What would you propose as an alternative? Maybe the city elders should all go on tv and plead for the Armstong families' forgiveness while whipping themselves? Don't just be a armchair critic- what is your alternate solution?! Smh

while whipping themselves wtf. that would be hilarious

The best trip I ever done. I have exactly the same memories of this very same place, excepted that it was in 1990! I was 10 years old at this time, that I couldn't barely speak a word of english (I'm French), but this jazz festival was without a doubt a great moment.
I would like to go there again with my wife, but I'm a bit afraid to find the city a bit changed...

@Rick Autry Check yourself..No its called preservation, Iam from New Orleans. Let me correct you, racist white folks in New Orleans didnot give him the credit he deserved while he was alive, because of his race..The People of New Orleans loved (him) Louis Armstrong and they named a Park after him in Treme and the airport to preserve his heritage and his great name... Louis Armstrong is Our Native born and raised son of New Orleans. .He was King Zulu in 1949, was a member of the Tramps( Zulu S & P) and has always been near and dear to the heart of New Orleanians. We gave the world Louis Armstrong , Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Kid Ory, Buddy Bolden and others Jazz in general..The song your hearing Basin Street Blues is about Storyville the red light District of New Orleans where many of our Jazz greats would play in the early 1900's in the beginning and birthplace of Jazz. Louis Armstrong is apart of him and us.. He brought Jazz and New Orleans culture to the World.. Please think before speaking and do your research sir... This was the ground ,soil he was born in sir and then given to the world.. Don't revise history for your own purpose and speak for your own city, because you don't know what your talking about.Thanks....

Great classic jazz.

fun to play along with a Bb harmonica.

MAN ,I'm there .... style.

"This cat can Jam"...

Wonderful Blues!

Best contrabass line I ever seen!!!

Yes, Basin Street is the street where the folks they all meet in New Orleans the land of dreams
Oh it’s a treat swingin' on Basin Street
(Take it Billy Kyle)  Camels are comin’ folks!

+Carl A Thouse darn camels! XD

LOVE Billy Kyle on this recording

Can someone explain the reference to the camels in the song?

Camel is an American cigarette brand. Louis used to smoke the non-filter kind as early on there were no filter cigarettes.

So far as I know, the little tune Billy interpolates is "The Campbells are Coming". Every time Billy played it--and it never failed to turn up in his "Basin Street" solo, Louis would call it out.

the great Satchmo, and can better could it not, the good old days

who is playing the drums in this?

+Hunger Petta Danny Barcelona a Filipino

+Ted Breckner thx m8. it almost took a year for someone to answer but thanks! you are the winner!

check him out.  He has some good stuff with Louis from the 1950s and (I think) 60's.  I believe he is still alive and living outside of Manila.

HEEERMOOOOSOOOO!!!!!

Asi es!!!!!!!!

Classic !
Thanks

Anyone know where I can get a score of this?

can someone please write me the short lyrics of this version? im not american and can't find them online

Won't you come and go with me
Down that Mississippi?
We'll take a boat to the land of dreams
Come along with me on down to New Orleans

Now the band's there to greet us
Old friends will meet us
Where all them folks goin' to the St. Louis cemetery meet
Heaven on earth, they call it Basin Street

I'm tellin' ya Basin Street is the street
Where all them characters from the first street they meet
New Orleans, land of dreams
You'll never miss them rice and beans
Way down south in New Orleans

They'll be huggin' and a kissin'
That's what I been missin'
And all that music, Lord, if you just listen'
New Orleans, I got them Basin Street blues

Now ain't you glad you went with me
On down that Mississippi?
We took a boat to the land of dreams
Heaven on earth, they call it Basin Street


enjoy!

more thanks, can you write me just the words he sings in this version?