Way Down Yonder in New Orleans

Way Down Yonder in New Orleans is a pop song, the Turner Layton wrote (music) and Henry Creamer ( text ); the song was released in 1922 and has become a jazz standard.

Genesis and content of the song

Way Down Yonder in New Orleans was initially part of the Broadway revue Spice of 1922, which was performed at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. In the song in the second act of the Revue a native of New Orleans musician sings about his hometown as the "Garden of Eden " and " heaven here on earth. "

The song is written in the form of a song A- A' -BCA "where the last A section is four bars shorter than the other A- parts,. Every stanza therefore includes only 28 cycles.

Effective history

One of the first singers who interpreted the Way Down Yonder in New Orleans was, Blossom Seeley, whose photograph was also reproduced on the cover of the sheet music. Other early interpretations come from Frank Guarente, George Kelly, Paul Whiteman and ( in London) Fred Elizalde. On May 13, 1927, came to the recording by Bix Beiderbecke, which is considered a "masterpiece " in the history of jazz.

Jimmy Noone took the title in 1936. 1938 played the Kansas City Six song one; next to Lester Young ( tenor sax and clarinet on ) and Buck Clayton was to be heard "on the electric guitar solos of the first Jazzgeschiche " here Eddie Durham with one of the. In the same year, immortalized in Paris Bill Coleman 's version of the song. More pictures were taken by The Andrews Sisters, Al Jolson, but also by Tommy Dorsey and as well, both of which grossed Jimmy Dorsey song in 1950 in a combo occupation. Only occasionally there are big band recordings of the title, such as Duke Ellington, Ray Noble and Claude Thornhill.

In the 1950s, discovered by Sharkey Bonano versions of his Kings of Dixieland and Jimmy McPartland (1956 ), the European revival bands the Song: Chris Barber, Acker Bilk, Düsseldorf Feetwarmers or the Maryland Jazz Band of Cologne. The Dutch Swing College Band Way Down Yonder makes New Orleans even their signature tune and recorded the song again and again.

In addition, the song lives on in popular music. 1953 took him Frankie Laine and Jo Stafford on successfully; In 1959, Freddy Cannon, which reached # 3 on the 1960 Billboard charts with his version.

Use in the film

The song was first used in the movie musical The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1937 ), but only as part of a medleys. In 1951, he was heard in Somebody Loves Me; also it was used in 1959 in a big-band version for the soundtrack of the Gene Krupa Story.

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