[Dixielandjazz] Pronunciation. (Gravier Street Blues)

[Marek Boym]

Hi Bill,
I tried all three links and for all had the same result: "This video not
available."
Best wishes,
Marek

On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 at 09:20, Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> > Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com> wrote:
> > As in Cootie Williams's 1939 recording of "Ain't The Graa-vi-yeh Good"?
> and Anton Crouch replied
> > Gravier Street is a street in New Orleans, running between Perdido
> Street and Tulane Avenue. Does this help?
>
> Dear Listmates,
> "Ain't The Gravy Good"
> Another one of the good 'uns.
> Thank you Steve for mentioning that Cootie recording of Donald Heywood's
> 1939 composition.
>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdunohGNZgI
>
> Anton (Off List to me) suggested that perhaps someone should check out the
> original 10 October 1924 Okeh vocal rendition of Clarence William's tune
> "Gravier Street Blues" by Laura Smith. That he does not have.
> I do - and did.
> To my ears she sings, "...I'll have the GAvyer Street Blues."
>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI33ErvszAU
> {Last line of the song at 3:00 for those unaccustomed to vintage blues and
> surface noise.}
>
> To complete the trifecta here is the first recorded version of the tune, a
> Clarence Williams piano solo on Okeh from 28 July 1924.
>    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd-t-fE7-xM
> What would we do without YouTube?
> Cheers,
> Bill.
>
>
>
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