SAINT JAMES INFIRMARY [TRADITIONAL]
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- Опубліковано 30 кві 2012
- This live performance was at the Tricou House [711 Bourbon Street, New Orleans] on March 23, 1991.
"SAINT JAMES INFIRMARY" [TRADITIONAL]
Arranged and adapted by DOUG DUFFEY
Performance [C] 1991/2007 Doug Duffey
This song is available on my "DOUG DUFFEY/ TRADITIONAL" CD [2011]- and for digital download- via cdbaby.com, itunes, amazon, rhapsody, etc. THANK YOU for your support- which keeps me doing what i do!
www.cdbaby.com/cd/dougduffey2
I've been doing this song for decades. I always wondered who actually wrote it- but its like "House of the Rising Sun" or "Stack-o-lee"- one of those old folk songs that has been passed down and been around forever. There are many pages written about the song online, but, I originally learned the lyrics off an old Bobby Bland LP way back, but later heard and liked the Louis Armstrong version better [which is closer to what I do]- but I don't even sing what he sang... the lyrics i sing have somehow evolved/devolved over the years of my doing it; but there are many versions of the lyrics...
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Damn. God-fucking-damn, that was awesome.
This is one of the only videos on you tube that comes close to capturing actually being in New Orleans
This is what excellence sounds like...
that is a HUGE compliment- thank you
love your hat,your attitude,your hair and most of all your jazz soul
great just great
a true artist sir,a true artist
Thank you so much. I appreciate your kind words.
this is my favorite st james infirmary version.
bar none.!...doug duffey is an absolute master
How can 9 people vote to NOT like this?,,,,they are either music stupid or jealous!
5***** Excellent arrangement!
+525wireman 10 now. 10.
hey 525,,,,your right ,not even enuf for a jury.
The letter "e" in Doug's surname is important when searching YTube for other tunes of his.. If you forget the "e" YT will give you Doug Duffy, world Motocross champion.
Fantastic
Great and great
Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. I have missed that girl so much since 1981. My sweet Irish Channel baby. God, baby, I miss you so.
Thank you for sharing...wherever it took you ❤ im glad
I actually met Doug when I was a kid, he's actually one of my dad's friends
great guy.
That deserved waaaay more applause than it got.
my all-time favorite rendition of this song. beautiful arrangement & singing
thank you so much!
@@DougDuffey hands down my #1 piano piece on youtube and has been for at least 7 years, is there better? probably.. I don't care, all I know is this is my jam.
also, nice to see it still going strong on the algorithm and getting them views
He is the best blues jazz pianist I KNOW
Wow! Thank you!
Doug serce na klawiszach i w głosie...
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THE WAY YOU TICKLE THOSE IVORYS!!!!!!!!
ooooooeeeee! Doug Duffy that was soooo sweeeet! Love the way you tickle those ivorys!
Doesn't get much better than this. Hot damn.
holy s**t. now i realized that's you who's playing the keys. INCREDIBLE. CONSTANTLY.
I so love this song, the first time I ever hear it was the Cab Calloway version from an old Betty Boop cartoon. I've been collecting versions ever since. This one was just so pretty and perfect.
And the crowd cried for more, more!!
Superb!
Love his version of this song and House of the Rising Sun, none better, playing and the voice. Truly New Orleans sound. You are right aknowneemus, why isnt he better known? I do have the album this is on. wearing it out.
How does this not get more views than that ?
great version of a classic song..........a lifelong favorite
This was once 1 of my all time favorites. Till it was my turn to visit the infirmary. So it has lost some of its luster for me. Still you play it so well. Thank you for the post.
Count me in Doug, I always play you when I'm on FB.
Damn Doug that is smooth--soulful.
thanks, buddy!
Huh!
Doug!!! Congratulations! This version is amazing. This is my favourite song. I love all versions of this song (Dave van Ronk, Henry Red Allen, Josh White, Cab Calloway...) I often play its with a guitar, or sometimes with a trumpet player.
Thanks this version!!!
Doug Duffey is Da Bad Man!!!
Fabulous! * * * * *
hell yea.
Great Song! One of my favorites! Thanks Doug
That is a great version
Beautifully played and great voice for Blues
Thanks for sharing
So good mate. my unlce always plays this song. its a fave.
This version and Clark Stern's are the best. Different moods, but great.
My most favorite version.. Thank you, Doug!
thank YOU!
Like your version, Doug Duffey. ❤️
Brilliant. Perfect.
Awesome job.............. love this version!
Thanks for the traditional version!
FANTASTIC.
Great song, great performance.
Thank you for posting this wonderful music.
Beautiful version of this song.
Brilliant work! What a great rendition.
I have always loved this song & your version really does it justice. Just beautiful, thanks for sharing it. :)
thanks Peter!
Jesus Christ! Yes! That's OMG Beautyfull!
Your am awesome specimen DOUG
Awesome rendition Doug... Thank you kindly.
You are amazing boy!!
super perfect
Excellent.
this is wonderful. im fellin this. keep doin ya thang.
Thank you for this
every ytime I hear Doug's interprtetation I am blown away. Materfully played, sung and performed!!!
thank you!
Perfectly awesome!
Genius! splendid!!!
great version!!
Well done!!! What a great song, and you do it a great JUSTICE!!
It's so good !
I feel like I'm watching this through a security camera.
It scares me half to death !
@@douggodfrey6521 1991 technology
Absolutely beautiful my friend, absolutely beautiful!
excellent
Great song! Super nice work Doug. Really like all of your work.
that was wonderful. Agreed - rather desultory applause for such a great performance
Gorgeous! You play this song beautifully.
masterfully performed!!!!
Doug, you're baddasss. Thanks for postin' this! All the best!
Best version out there
Great rendition Doug brother! Love your style...
sung with soul, nice work
THAT is music!
THIS AINT NOTHIN BUT THE TRUTH!
very fine !!!!
Give this man a cigar. I've always wondered what that line meant.
awesome
@WeLoveMarley - "Sweet Man" in the vernacular of the time meant pimp. So it wasn't so much of a love affair as a business arrangement. I've been trying to collect all the copies of this song that I can find, thanks DougDuffey for posting this one, I had no clue about it.
Sweet!
dude, awesome version. Bloody wish I could play something more jazzy than the violin!
You rock! ehmm... you jazz :-D
Amazing!
amazing version!!
thank you, Lety!
Growing up in Monroe, La I always knew Doug Duffey was an excellent songwriter/singer that had quite a following. Last I heard he was in Europe. BUT being a home-town girl how could I miss the fact Duffey played piano so well (?!) [He always HIRED the piano player]? aah...he was giving back
WOW! THAT'S COOL JAZZ!!!
1991 good year. great job! Hope you are still kickin out the tunes, somewhere. heard you were in Switzerland alps
Late reply- yeah I live between Louisiana and Switzerland.
the earliest version i've got of this is Cisco Houston somewhere back in the 40s. great song. dark, gritty, and strangely life-affirming. and as with all good old folk, it has about a million different versions of the lyrics (only a slight exaggeration!)
Génial...merci Doug..performance vocale super...piano impeccable...tu joues bientôt en France...?
Je vous remercie. Principalement, je me produit en Suisse ces jours-ci, quand en Europe. Malheureusement, en raison de covid, toutes mes visites ont été annulées pour 2020
WOAH!
that was really awesome! I wish i could play like you, all i can play is the white stripes version :p hahah
Super buenooo
Goooooood
#OdedFriedGaon #OdedMusic #Audioded
Happy New Year Doug
This song is so classic
So infamous
No one knows its author
He or she died broke....idk but, I'd bet
But look at us now
Attracted
Maybe enticed
At scripts jotted years before us all
Music is best served from the soul
The author, as far as I know, is Joe Primrose, 1929, but could be from another composer.
I went down to st James infirmary. I saw my baby there. she was dressed out on a long white table. so sweet so cold so fair. let her go let her go god bless her. wherever she may be. she will search this whole world over. but shell never.
find another sweet man
like me
Personally, i think it is made up from several old Irish/English folk songs. I did a lot of research about the song, 10+ years back. But, I just put my own version together.
Doug Duffey
Hey Doug i miss you. Haven’t spoke in a bit.
Im working at NASA michoud on a rocket. I bought a korg Krome to get my chops back.
Any time you are in NoLa let me know so i can you see you play. Maybe you can give me tips on my left hand with the keys.
Wishing you the best
-Daniel
Good
Folks, I'm goin' down to St. James Infirmary,
See my baby there;
She's stretched out on a long, white table,
She's so sweet, so cold, so fair.
Let her go, let her go, God bless her,
Wherever she may be,
She will search this wide world over,
But she'll never find another sweet man like me.
Now, when I die, bury me in my straight-leg britches,
Put on a box-back coat and a stetson hat,
Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain,
So you can let all the boys know I died standing pat
#Good
good
Oh my god. You make the piano sound so smooth and nice. It's such easy listening.
I thought that Cab Calloway was the original composer, but I guess I'll have to look into it more.
there is NO original composer; it's a folk song, handed down for generations, changed to fit whatever times. I learned the 'lyrics' [which i kind added to myself] off a Louis Armstrong record waaaaaay back in the day... Thank you.
this is the best version on youtube of st james infirmary.... Well done!
But do you have the sheetmusic of your version? I REALLY want to play it like you...
I was a big fan of Jamil Shariff's rendition at Maison Bourbon on Bourbon Street
god !! ^^*
EXCELENTE!!! ... ALGUIEN HABLO DE SONIDOS SORDOS? SORDO ES EL QUE OPINO
This song was based on the English song "St. James' Infirmary", (a 17th century hospital). The Infirmary was demolished by Henry VIII to make way for St. James' Palace. The original writer of the song is unknown. The House of the Rising Sun is a variant as is the Streets of Laredo. Same origin.
great stuff, perfect voice, can you do a Leon tune?