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Genre: Blues-Acoustic
Credits: Joe Primrose (Traditional) Alan Sirvent performing

Song: St James Infirmary
Album: Be Happy

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I first remember hearing Cab Calloway doing that on a Betty Boop Cartoon. Stayed with me forever. It's generally attributed to a Joe(?) Primrose but I think his contribution was probably the arrangement with which we're most familiar. There are so many versions of it and a ton of lyrics to it. I think almost everybody who sang it added something to it as it went along. It's origin is probably lost in the murky murky past. Haunting though, isn't it. Like fingers beckoning from the dim dark past.... chills

Richard Hefner has a terrific version of this song on his page as well. This is info he gave me about the song.

As for the origin, I'm not quite sure, but it's in Carl Sandburg's 1927 book "The American Songbag" under the name "Those Gambler's Blues." About the song, he wrote...

"This may be what polite society calls a gutter song. In a foreign language, in any lingo but that of the U.S.A., it woud seem less vulgar, more bizarre. Its opening realism works on toward irony and fantasy, dropping in its final lines again to blunt realism. Texts and melody are from the song as given (A) by Henry McCarthy of the University of Alabama, and (B) by Jake Zeitlin and Jack Hagerty of Fort Worth and Los Angeles."

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