Me too and not only with Billy Murray but also Frank C. Stanley, Arthur Fields, Eddie Cantor and, least but not last, the "sentimental voice of Buenos Aires"; Agustin Magaldi.
JayTemple I discovered that when I heard it on some radio show - in St Louis - that played older music now and then. The verses cracked me up so hard. I was delighted to find a PDF of the score, with a half dozen hysterical verses (including these), a few years ago.
Wish more people listened to this guy from over 100+ years sing, he was revolutionary in his vocals and sung confidently in each song. The songs I've heard all sound really good and were worth saving for the future.
My great grandmother told me this song was the reason she fled Mississippi and went to St. Louis. She said after the KKK burned down her father's farm and destroyed the land they had after slavery ended, my great grandmother and her sister fled to St. Louis together because they were the only survivors. To think, I might not have been born had this song not come out.
@@billymurray705 Segregation and the kkk started in 1865, the same year slavery ended. That's the reason the kkk even formed. They still terrorized my great grandmothers family and many others after slavery ended, with cross burnings, lynching, hanging and more. So I'm sure by 1904 this song would give some hope of relief to leave... By the way, segregation ended in 1965, where hanging and lynching were still justified to blacks in America... Even though I believe everything she told me, I still went and researched the times when I got everything when I got older. You should give it a shot and I think you'd be surprised at what you find
@@billymurray705 Oh I see what you mean. I was saying the land that they were given after slavery was burned down by the kkk. Which the kkk reaked havoc to them and other blacks long after slavery ended. Wasn't trying to make it sound like it was the day after slavery or anything
Terrific! He was the master of this type of recording. Different versions have different lyrics. This one is obviously a parody - marvellous! Go for it, Billy. Bravo!
I already knew the song was older than the movie, because I've heard it sung in movies made earlier than that. Most notably it was sung in 1941's THE STRAWBERRY BLONDE with Jimmy Cagney & Olivia De Haviland by some townspeople . That predated the "St> Louis" movie by three years.
I was looking for pictures of my ancestors and I found a book of songs called family sing along book and when I opened it and flipped through and I saw this song and shoved in between the pages were 3 pictures of my great grandfather from WWII and 4 pictures of my grandfather from the Iraque and Vietnam wars
if you meet me in st louis forest park where the fair was i can make you see those light's the fair is still their all you have to do is belive too see the fair!
My great great grandparents, on both sides, were living in St. Louis by the time this song came out. 3 out of four came from Germany straight to St. Louis and the fourth came from Woodriver, IL as a young girl. The other set of great great grandparents got a street on the North Side named after them because they built the first house on the street. Sexhauer Street. Don't laugh, but the way its pronounced in German sounds in English as "sex hour." If only folks living there now knew lol.
Rose Smith/Esther Smith: [singing] Meet me in St. Louie, Louie, meet me at... Mr. Alonzo Smith: For heaven's sake, stop that screeching! Rose Smith: We're sorry, Papa. Mr. Alonzo Smith: The fair won't open for seven months, and that's all anybody ever sings about or talks about. I wish they would all meet at the fair and leave me alone.
I think the tempo is just right. However, it always seems to me that the play-back speed may be a tad faster than the speed at which these records were recorded. When I was very young, I was given a Victrola with a trunk full of records, all acoustically recorded. The machine had the means of adjusting the speed so that it was possible to make a voice seem much more natural sounding than it did when you played the record on a modern record player at 78 RPMs.
Anyone else thinks this is creepy and and weird but cool! The scratches make it sound old this song was made so long ago my teacher played this song in class....ME AND MY CLASS WERE SO CREEPED OUT BY THE SCRATCHES AND SOUND!
I just remembered one time in the comments of this song(can't remember if it was this video or another video of this same version) someone said they preferred this version over the Judy Garland one and that her singing sounded like "horrible screeching" and I was floored because who the hell doesn't like Judy Garland? I'm all for having your own taste in music but at that point you haven't got a soul if you don't like Judy Garland I mean come on now
@@DavyanHatch seeing as they're both talented legends in their own way who were given bad reputations(hehe) by the media, I can see the comparison. If only they were alive at the same time 😭
i absolutley love this guy. i listen to him whenever i feel down
Me too and not only with Billy Murray but also Frank C. Stanley, Arthur Fields, Eddie Cantor and, least but not last, the "sentimental voice of Buenos Aires"; Agustin Magaldi.
Oh, I was almost forgetting Harry Tally.
I've been listening to this song because it reminds me my great grandmother who passed away on her birthday because she knew this song
@@aileen9553 I see you everywhere!
And what about Arthur Collins 😀 I'm in love with him
I'm from St. Louis, and I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't know until now that the song didn't originate with the movie!
JayTemple I discovered that when I heard it on some radio show - in St Louis - that played older music now and then. The verses cracked me up so hard. I was delighted to find a PDF of the score, with a half dozen hysterical verses (including these), a few years ago.
1904 a great year!
@@sooner9971 I was the best bit
Forgive my ignorance, but same here man💯
Wish more people listened to this guy from over 100+ years sing, he was revolutionary in his vocals and sung confidently in each song. The songs I've heard all sound really good and were worth saving for the future.
Brought here by being a sixth-generation St. Lousian. It's amazing how much an event in 1904 has influenced our culture.
I mean, that made the city the center of the western world for a while.
My great grandmother told me this song was the reason she fled Mississippi and went to St. Louis. She said after the KKK burned down her father's farm and destroyed the land they had after slavery ended, my great grandmother and her sister fled to St. Louis together because they were the only survivors. To think, I might not have been born had this song not come out.
Fake, this was 1904, slavery ended 1865
@@billymurray705 Segregation and the kkk started in 1865, the same year slavery ended. That's the reason the kkk even formed. They still terrorized my great grandmothers family and many others after slavery ended, with cross burnings, lynching, hanging and more. So I'm sure by 1904 this song would give some hope of relief to leave... By the way, segregation ended in 1965, where hanging and lynching were still justified to blacks in America... Even though I believe everything she told me, I still went and researched the times when I got everything when I got older. You should give it a shot and I think you'd be surprised at what you find
@@billymurray705 Cool name by the way lol I didn't catch that at first haha good one
@@T0NY314 thanks, but your comment implied they left just after slavery ended
@@billymurray705 Oh I see what you mean. I was saying the land that they were given after slavery was burned down by the kkk. Which the kkk reaked havoc to them and other blacks long after slavery ended. Wasn't trying to make it sound like it was the day after slavery or anything
"Tootsie wootsie"...I love how you can observe how language evolves over the years.
Yes, those were days when "sweethearts" used to go into the park after dark and "spoon"!
I had thought this song came out in 1941 but this came out 37 years before that 😳
This nothing short of phenominal!!! I absofuckinglutely love this! ❤❤❤❤
BILLY MURRAY A TRUE SUPERSTAR 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
HE DID IT FIRST SO MANY NO1 SONGS 📀📀📀📀📀
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True
I love this song I wish I was born in these years!
zach weiman7, me too!! :( ( i need a time machine right now ! )
zach weiman7 im totally agree with you!! by the way , awesome picture !
your kool
Do you really? Do you?
Me three!
Listening to this in the waiting room @ St. Joe's before I get my stress test.
Terrific! He was the master of this type of recording. Different versions have different lyrics. This one is obviously a parody - marvellous! Go for it, Billy. Bravo!
Thanks
This is awesome!
Hard to imagine this is the voice of someone 120 years ago.
I already knew the song was older than the movie, because I've heard it sung in movies made earlier than that. Most notably it was sung in 1941's THE STRAWBERRY BLONDE with Jimmy Cagney & Olivia De Haviland by some townspeople . That predated the "St> Louis" movie by three years.
I was looking for pictures of my ancestors and I found a book of songs called family sing along book and when I opened it and flipped through and I saw this song and shoved in between the pages were 3 pictures of my great grandfather from WWII and 4 pictures of my grandfather from the Iraque and Vietnam wars
Woah that’s so cool!!
Some excellent old lyrics here, too :)
Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you Jimmy and Jerry Gourd from Veggie Tales for alerting me to this
if you meet me in st louis forest park where the fair was i can make you see those light's the fair is still their all you have to do is belive too see the fair!
My great great grandparents, on both sides, were living in St. Louis by the time this song came out. 3 out of four came from Germany straight to St. Louis and the fourth came from Woodriver, IL as a young girl. The other set of great great grandparents got a street on the North Side named after them because they built the first house on the street. Sexhauer Street. Don't laugh, but the way its pronounced in German sounds in English as "sex hour." If only folks living there now knew lol.
Heard this on Apple's Vernon Dalhart Radio. I had to find it again.
Holy shit. I've never heard this version
its the original
This did 14 weeks at #1, I remember it well, love to see billie eillish do that
Um, the 1904 competition was a bunch of waltzes... I think there were only like 15 songs released that year... :)
Lmao Billy Murray slay✨✨✨✨😭
@@lukehauser1182a bunch more surprisingly. They were pretty busy making music back then
@@lukehauser1182there were probably hundreds of lost songs from 1904
grandes cançoes
My great grandfather know this song
120 Years and Counting , 😅😅😅
This song makes me nostalgic for veggietales (not the other way around which is interesting lol)
Great Musical by MGN to
Fucking O.G.!
cool 98 years later I was born 😂😂
100 for me 😂
99 for me, right between the two of you 😂
Monty did an amazing cover
Rose Smith/Esther Smith: [singing] Meet me in St. Louie, Louie, meet me at...
Mr. Alonzo Smith: For heaven's sake, stop that screeching!
Rose Smith: We're sorry, Papa.
Mr. Alonzo Smith: The fair won't open for seven months, and that's all anybody ever sings about or talks about. I wish they would all meet at the fair and leave me alone.
This was in one of the WB cartoons, can't remember which in particular, I think it was
Daffy Duck.
Fucking Brilliant ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Three Carousels known!
SOLDCAT "this is the shit" (germdonor discord memes)
0:46 he doesn’t do the little squeaks Tootie does 😭
0:33
Do they sing the entire song like this in the Broadway version of the movie?
Pianos were rare in recordings at the time because phonograph technology didn't pick them up very well. This is not seen here.
Yes, and the accompaniment is rather elaborate; it was done by a very good pianist.
Rare? The only phonegraphs I’ve seen before 1905 were piano ones
Brought here by jimmy and jerry gourd
No one gives a fuck.
Bazzoka Jo apparently you do because you replied lololol rekt
+mcboberson bob nope, still don't give a fuck
Bazzoka Jo your replies totally agree with you
um what how is this paragraph related
vedge of tales
The last verse and chorus are hilarious! But isn't this played a tad too fast?
I think the tempo is just right. However, it always seems to me that the play-back speed may be a tad faster than the speed at which these records were recorded. When I was very young, I was given a Victrola with a trunk full of records, all acoustically recorded. The machine had the means of adjusting the speed so that it was possible to make a voice seem much more natural sounding than it did when you played the record on a modern record player at 78 RPMs.
Me too I came form veggie tales
magnum carlos
BP wuz here
Anyone else thinks this is creepy and and weird but cool! The scratches make it sound old this song was made so long ago my teacher played this song in class....ME AND MY CLASS WERE SO CREEPED OUT BY THE SCRATCHES AND SOUND!
Ahh youngsters nowadays
not sure why surface noise is creepy
gunnar anderson these were youngster's opinion who love singers nowadays. They'd need to have a bit adaptation to this masterpiece!
This sounds like something you'd hear in Bioshock Infinite.
Zachaary comstock would not like this song on
I don't know why this song makes me think of Kokichi Ouma from Danganronpa
193 04Wed Jan Feb
I just remembered one time in the comments of this song(can't remember if it was this video or another video of this same version) someone said they preferred this version over the Judy Garland one and that her singing sounded like "horrible screeching" and I was floored because who the hell doesn't like Judy Garland? I'm all for having your own taste in music but at that point you haven't got a soul if you don't like Judy Garland I mean come on now
She's overrated.
She is like the Taylor swift of the 20th century
@@DavyanHatch seeing as they're both talented legends in their own way who were given bad reputations(hehe) by the media, I can see the comparison. If only they were alive at the same time 😭
193 04Tue Mar Dec
This record is pitched too high / fast
I'm so glad I didn't join Bill Clinton
WTF?
Shut up