From '' Only For \"Ska Addicts\" ''
Label: DSS Records – DSS 98100
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: Austria
Released: 1998
Tracklist
01. Skarface - Normalite
02. The Offbeats - Rude Nite
03. Skinnerbox - Crybaby
04. Kim & The Echoes - I Told You Many Times
05. Dunja & Bustabee - All That I Need
06. Last Orders - It's Allright
07. Gangsters - Girl On The Run
08. Skavenjah - Jump Up & Down
09. Smoke Like A Fish - Mesmerize
10. The Smarts - Once
11. Skarface - La Tourista
12. The Offbeats - Offbeat
13. Last Orders - Last Orders
14. Gangsters - Mistaken Identity
15. Skavenjah - Skafari
16. Smoke Like A Fish - Siren
17. The Smarts - When The Saints Go Marching In
18. Skarface - Hate & Rage
19. Gangsters - The Family
20. Smoke Like A Fish - The Way
21. Smoke Like A Fish - Radickulie
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\"When the Saints Go Marching In\", often referred to as \"The Saints\", is a Black spiritual.
Though it originated as a Christian hymn, it is often played by jazz bands.
This song was famously recorded on May 13, 1938, by Louis Armstrong and his orchestra.
Origins
The origins of this song are unclear.
It apparently evolved in the early 1900s from a number of similarly titled gospel songs, including \"When the Saints Are Marching In\" (1896) and \"When the Saints March In for Crowning\" (1908).
The first known recorded version was in 1923 by the Paramount Jubilee Singers on Paramount 12073.
Although the title given on the label is \"When All the Saints Come Marching In\", the group sings the modern lyrics beginning with \"When the saints go marching in\".
No author is shown on the label.
Several other gospel versions were recorded in the 1920s, with slightly varying titles but using the same lyrics, including versions by The Four Harmony Kings (1924), Elkins-Payne Jubilee Singers (1924), Wheat Street Female Quartet (1925), Bo Weavil Jackson (1926), Deaconess Alexander (1926), Rev. E. D. Campbell (1927), Robert Hicks (AKA Barbecue Bob, 1927), Blind Willie Davis (1928), and the Pace Jubilee Singers (1928).
The earliest versions were slow and stately, but as time passed the recordings became more rhythmic, including a distinctly up tempo version by the Sanctified Singers on British Parlophone in 1931.
Even though the song had folk roots, a number of composers claimed copyright in it in later years, including Luther G. Presley and Virgil Oliver Stamps, R. E. Winsett, and Frank and Jim McCravy. Although the song is still heard as a slow spiritual number, since the mid-20th century it has been more commonly performed as a \"hot\" number.
The tune is particularly associated with the city of New Orleans.
A jazz standard, it has been recorded by a great many jazz and pop artists.
Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound.
Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop tune in the 1930s.
Armstrong wrote that his sister told him she thought the secular performance style of the traditional church tune was inappropriate and irreligious.
Armstrong was in a New Orleans tradition of turning church numbers into brass band and dance.
Analysis of the traditional lyrics
The song is apocalyptic, taking much of its imagery from the Book of Revelation, but excluding its more horrific depictions of the Last Judgment.
The verses about the Sun and Moon refer to Solar and Lunar eclipses; the trumpet (of the Archangel Gabriel) is the way in which the Last Judgment is announced.
As the hymn expresses the wish to go to Heaven, picturing the saints going in (through the Pearly Gates), it is entirely appropriate for funerals.
Other versions
Paramount Jubilee Singers
Four Harmony Kings
Elkins-Payne Jubilee Singers
Bo Weavil Jackson
Sleepy John Estes
Elvis Presley
Louis Armstrong
Fats Domino
Judy Garland
Bing Crosby
Jerry Lee Lewis
Tony Sheridan (featuring then-unknown band The Beatles as a backing group)
John Rutter arranged a lively version of the song for the Cambridge Singers
Etta James
Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye performed a comedy duet version in the 1959 film The Five Pennies
Woody Guthrie
Aaron Neville, along with New Orleans musicians Sal and Steve Monistere and Carlo Nuccio and a group of players for the New Orleans Saints American football team
The rhythm of \"When the Saints Go Marching In\" was adapted by Dick Powell's Four Star Television for its legal drama, The Law and Mr. Jones starring James Whitmore, which ran on ABC from 1960-1962.
Big Chief Jazzband
Al Hirt
Harry James
Popular culture
The children's television show Barney & Friends has a song called \"Walk Across the Street\" sung to this tune.
