Hoagy Carmichael - Hong Kong Blues (1944) video free download

gerry merchant

Kicking "old Buddha's gong" is slang for smoking opium just like "Chasing the dragon" They strerilized the lyrics for the Hollywood movie.

Fredric Tengström

My dad recently passed away ,leaving my childhoods 78rpms. So,i dumped t records,feels sad. aniways ileft honkng came back t luv.sweet sweet -But this versions no right.Too shrill. thanks anihow

Jazz&BluesHeritage

Why is it that anyone who covers this wonderful song today substitutes something else for the phrase "a very unfortunate colored man"? That's the way Hoagy wrote it, Political Correctness be damned!

Jane Johnson

One of my favourites from my grandmother's collection that I played to death in the 1950's - from 1957 onwards - and somehow I knew it was about drug addiction even then, though don't know how or why. The black and white movies of the day were aired on TV, Sundays - when Grandad used to sleep in his arm chair, Nannie and my mum snoozed, and we girls watched all the old greats! Scary, some of them!

Cat Damon

I like the George Harrison cover of this way better.

Pete Meade

Of the movie for me. A great talent.

Pete Meade

Hoagy singing this song in To Have and Have Not was the highlight og

Howard Rose

I used to love Humphrey Bogart movies in my college years. Robert Kenyon Fortenbaugh, a counselor at Camp Farrington in 1966, always referred to Bogart as "Bogey" and encouraged me to watch his films when they appear on the "Million Dollar Movie" or the "Late Show" (or the "Late Late Show"). The "Million Dollar Movie" used the theme from "Gone With the Wind" but of course never showed that classic because it was probably too expensive to obtain the rights and Channel 9, but for the Mets, was not a very popular station in our area. Channel 2, the CBS outlet, not only had those two late shows immediately after the eleven o'clock news but it also had the "Early Show" at 5:00 in the afternoon before the 7:00 PM news. Then during the day there were old movies on as well. So I managed to see great movies such as (a) The Maltese Falcon - great mystery and a super plot with a superb cast - one of my favorite movies of all time without question; (b) Casablanca - another great movie and one that is rated as the greatest Hollywood movie of all time by Leonard Maltin - but I enjoyed the Maltese Falcon more because I am more of a mystery buff than a drama buff; (c) The Treasure of Sierra Madre - also with Walter Huston, this was the precursor of those spaghetti westerns from the late sixties - another great movie about greed set below the border in Mexico and another favorite; and (d) High Sierra with Ida Lupino which featured one of my favorite all-time cars heading up the mountain - was it a Ford or a Plymouth from 1941, now I can't remember (senility on the way). Then, when VCR's and movie rentals came around, I saw "The Big Sleep" (my favorite all-time mystery with Bogey as a Raymond Chandler detective named Philip Marlowe), "The Harder They Fall" (my favorite all-time boxing movie - Rocky is second and "Raging Bull" third), "To Have and Have Not" with the hot and steamy Lauren Bacall who of course married Bogey a bit later, and "They Drive By Night" which was an adventure about truck drivers barely earning enough to live during the depression. Later the "African Queen" with Katherine Hepburn, the first time I saw Bogey in color. And some great songs from these movies too. One is from "To Have and Have Not" and Hoagy Carmichael is the artist - it is called "Hong Kong Blues" and it hits the survey at # 3441.

Fredric Tengström

no research needed ive got the full storyCulture isnt us best strokesharpen yer sensesv c deus

RVG Symphony

this is great! I love the tin pan alley version as well

Marian Douglas-Ungaro

This song deserves a lot more research. 

Zoe Orth

I had the original record.

eveltwin70

Junior Brown did a great cover of this on the album Semi Crazy.

Ira Kurtz

Hoagy was an amazing talent.

gtnsteve1

And was there ever a more gorgeous thing than Lauren Bacall? No wonder Bogie couldn't resist!

MadameTheresa

Smart man -- great song!

Yoanna Shoshan

Can you upload "How Little We Know" please?

Gerry Kirstein

Yet another classic song that gave so much flavor to the scenes at the Hotel in "To Have and Have Not"............unforgettable.

MrWatty1888

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MrWatty1888

Honk Kong Phooey.