James Has The Blues

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She later fought a heroin problem - saying in she tried the drug because "I was trying to be cool" — and in later years struggled with her weight, often performing from a wheelchair. In the early s, she had weight-loss surgery. The relationship between the two singers wasn't always a smooth one, however.

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She later retracted these comments, saying they were meant as a joke. James's voice, which could switch from tender to ferocious in an instant, inspired soul singers such as Amy Winehouse and Adele. The latter once claimed hearing James made her want to take up singing. When she eventually met her, Adele said she was starstruck: I didn't know what to say. James Infirmary Blues is an American jazz song of uncertain origin. Louis Armstrong made the song famous in his recording on which Don Redman was credited as composer; later releases gave the name Joe Primrose, a pseudonym of Irving Mills.

The melody is 8 bars long, unlike songs in the classic blues genre, where there are 12 bars. James Infirmary Blues", sometimes known as "Gambler's Blues", is often regarded as an American folk song of anonymous origin. Moore and Baxter published a version of "Gambler's Blues" in James Infirmary Blues" is sometimes credited to the songwriter Joe Primrose a pseudonym for Irving Mills , who held copyrights for several versions of the song, registering the first in He claimed the rights to this specific title and won a case in the U.

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Supreme Court on this basis, the defendants having failed to produce the documentary evidence required by the court that the song had been known by that name for some years. James Infirmary Blues" is sometimes said to be based on an eighteenth-century traditional Irish folk song called " The Unfortunate Rake " also known as "The Unfortunate Lad" or "The Young Man Cut Down in His Prime" about a soldier who uses his money on prostitutes and then dies of venereal disease. But the familiar recorded versions such as Armstrong's bear little relation to the older traditional song.

According to Robert W.

St. James Infirmary Blues

Lloyd was the first person to connect "St. No date or source for the latter title is given. The opening line of this version of the song refers to the "lock hospital", not to an institution named St James.

The term "lock hospital" was the name of an institution in Southwark , London, where lepers were isolated and treated. The lock in Southwark was used for those suffering from venereal diseases. The longer term came into use as a generic term for a hospital treating venereal diseases. Its first recorded use is Lloyd claims that a song collected by Cecil Sharp in the Appalachians in which contains the words "St James Hospital" is the parent song and that it looks like an elder relative of "The Dying Cowboy".

The opening of that song, as quoted by Lloyd, is:. As I went down by St James Hospital one morning, So early one morning, it was early one day, I found my son, my own son, Wrapped up in white linen, as cold as the clay. He also claims that this Appalachian version derives in turn from the version published by Such in London in the s which refers to a lock hospital. The opening verse of this song, entitled "The Unfortunate Lad", is:.

As I was walking down by the Lock Hospital, As I was walking one morning of late, Who did I spy but my own dear comrade, Wrapp'd up in flannel, so hard was his fate. Lloyd's articles comment on the jazz hit "St.

The first article asserts that "the song is, or was before it became corrupted, a narrative ballad. Such ballads are rare in Negro song So doubts are raised about whether 'St. James Infirmary' began life as a Negro song". The curious switchover from the actual death of the girl to the hypothetical death of the gambler creates some ambiguity too". These liner notes are often used as a source for the history of "St. One example is an article by Rob Walker. James' Hospital was a real place and, if so, where it was.

Goldstein claimed in the notes that "St. James" refers to London's St.

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