New Orleans (Hoagy Carmichael song)
"New Orleans" is a 1932 popular song written by Hoagy Carmichael.
The song is now considered a jazz standard, along with several other Carmichael compositions such as "StardustGeorgia on My Mind" and "Lazy River".
The song was recorded by Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra and the Casa Loma Orchestra as an up-tempo number, but failed to achieve success until Carmichael released a slower version of the song with Scottish vocalist Ella Logan.
It was based on the chord progression from the bridge of two earlier standards
: "You Took Advantage of Me" and "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams".
A classic recording is by Ella Logan and Carmichael.
Another is by Dorothy Loudon in her album entitled "Saloon."
Al Hirt released a version on his 1963 album, "Our Man in New Orleans".
Canadian rock band Stampeders included a cover of the song on their 1975 album "Steamin", and Teddi King also covered it on her 2008 album "'Round Midnight".
The song was re-done in the 1998 film "Blues Brothers 2000" with the fictitious supergroup
The Louisiana Gator Boys and The Blues Brothers (including original keyboardist Paul Shaffer, who guest-starred in the film and was the original Blues Brothers keyboardist on "Saturday Night Live").
O Valencia!
" O Valencia!" is the fifth single by the indie rock band
The Decemberists, and the first released from their fourth studio album," The Crane Wife".
The music was written by The Decemberists and the lyrics by Colin Meloy.
It tells a story of two star- crossed lovers.
The singer falls in love with a person who belongs to an opposing gang.
At the end of the song, the singer's lover jumps in to defend the singer, who is confronting his lover's brother( the singer's" sworn enemy") and is killed by the bullet intended for the singer.
Paul Mares
Paul Mares( June 15, 1900 – August 18, 1949), was an American early dixieland jazz cornet& trumpet player, and leader of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.
Mares was born in New Orleans.
His father, Joseph E. Mares, played cornet with the military band at the New Orleans lakefront and ran a fur and hide business.
Like many New Orleans cornetists of his generation, Joe Mares's main influence was" King" Joe Oliver.
About 1919 cornetist Abbie Brunies was offered a job playing in Chicago, and passed the offer on to Mares.
( Brunies thought his New Orleans position of doubling driving a taxi-cab and playing music was more secure than prospects in Chicago.)
Mares established himself as a respected band leader over a group of wild and strong willed musicians, as The New Orleans Rhythm Kings( N.O.R.K.) became one of the best regarded bands in Chicago in the early 1920s.
In late 1924 Mares returned to New Orleans.
He decided to play music on the side while taking over the running of his family fur& hide business.
He ran the business well and with his prosperity purchased 3 homes for himself and his relatives in New Orleans' new suburb of Metairie, Louisiana.
Mares's Metairie home was the site of a legendary jam-session in 1929 where Bix Beiderbecke and the other jazz playing members of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra jammed with the local New Orleans jazz musicians.
Mares also ran a restaurant in New Orleans called" The Chicago Bar- B- Q".
In the early 1930s he returned to Chicago where he opened up his" New Orleans Bar- B- Q" there.
The" P.M. New Orleans Bar- B- Q" became a gathering place for Chicago jazz musicians and home to numerous jam sessions, which Mares occasionally joined in.
Al Hirt
Alois Maxwell "Al" Hirt (November 7, 1922 – April 27, 1999) was an American trumpeter and bandleader.
He is best remembered for his million-selling recordings of "Java" and the accompanying album "Honey in the Horn" (1963), and for the theme music to "The Green Hornet".
His nicknames included "Jumbo" and "The Round Mound of Sound".
Colin Escott, an author of musician biographies, wrote that RCA Victor Records, for which Hirt had recorded most of his best-selling recordings and for which he had spent much of his professional recording career, had dubbed him with another moniker: "The King.
" Hirt was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in November 2009.
Chris Shinn
Chris Shinn is an American singer, songwriter and musician.
From March 2012 to December 2016, he was the lead singer of the band Live.
He was previously the lead singer of the band Unified Theory.
He is the son of former New Orleans Hornets owner, George Shinn.
Billy Milano
Billy Milano is a Bronx- born heavy metal musician now based in Austin, Texas.
He is the singer and- occasionally- guitarist and bassist of crossover thrash band M.O.D., and he was also the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death.
He was also the singer of United Forces, which also featured his Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker.
Kristian Leontiou
Kristian Leontiou (born February 1982) is a British singer of Greek Cypriot descent, and is the singer for the indie rock band One eskimO.
Caspar Babypants
Caspar Babypants is the stage name of children's music artist Chris Ballew, who is also widely known as the singer of The Presidents of the United States of America.
Bernie Bonvoisin
Bernard Bonvoisin, known as Bernie Bonvoisin( born 9 July 1956 in Nanterre, Hauts- de- Seine), is a French hard rock singer and film director.
He is best known for having been the singer of Trust.
He was one of the best friends of Bon Scott the singer of AC/ DC and together they recorded the song" Ride On" which was one of the last songs by Bon Scott.
Dáithí Sproule
Dáithí Sproule( born 23 May 1950) is a guitarist and singer of traditional Irish music.
His niece is the singer Claire Sproule.

Question: Which country the performer of song New Orleans (Hoagy Carmichael Song) is from?
Answer: American