The blues on YouTube

I've been spending some time lately looking at all the great music clips you can find on YouTube. There's a lot of fine music history there, including a lot of good blues, especially odd clips from concerts and old pieces of film. One of these days, when BlueNotes has some spare time, he'll begin a kind of blogroll of YouTube blues. If you have any favorites, send them along.

Meanwhile, here are a few recent finds that you -- or some of you -- might enjoy:

This ine is seasonal ... "Christmas Blues" -- by Dean Martin. Yes, Dean Martin. Okay, it's not real blues, but it's kinda fun.

This one is by Miriam Makebo -- "Soweto Blues"

This is a classic film clip -- Bessie Smith singing "St. Louis Blues"

This is Louis Armstrong and one of his classics, with his Hot Seven, "Potato Head Blues," which Woody Allen, in his film "Manhattan," says that Armstrong's solo in the song is one of the things that makes life worth living. There's no video, but listen along:

Here's another with no video, but it's a classice doo-wop, straight out of the blues -- The Five Royales, with "Laundromat Blues." Which gives rise to the riddle: Why is a laundromat a really bad place to pick up women?  Because a woman who can't afford her own washing machine won't be able to support you.

That's enough for now. I think you get the idea. Let me know if you have a candidate.