The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Saints play in the South Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
The Saints were founded in 1967 as an expansion team and played their home games at Tulane Stadium through the 1974 season. They went more than a decade before they managed to finish a season with a .500 record, two decades before having a winning season, and over four decades before reaching the Super Bowl. The team's first successful years were from 1987–1992, when the team made the playoffs four times and had winning records in the non-playoff seasons. In the 2000 season, the Saints defeated the then-defending Super Bowl champion St. Louis Rams for the team's first playoff win.
Since 1975, the Saints' home stadium has been the Louisiana Superdome.[1] However, due to the damage Hurricane Katrina caused to the Superdome and the New Orleans area, the Saints' scheduled 2005 home opener against the New York Giants was moved to Giants Stadium. The remainder of their 2005 home games were split between the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, and LSU's Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After a $185 million renovation of the historic stadium, the team returned to the Superdome for the 2006 season. The team played its 2006 home opener in front of a sold-out crowd and national television audience on September 25, 2006, defeating the Atlanta Falcons by a score of 23–3. The victory received a 2007 ESPY award for "Best Moment in Sports." The club reached the NFC Championship Game in 2006 but lost 39-14 to the Chicago Bears.
The 2009 season was the team's best season. The November 30, 2009 Monday Night Football game vs. the New England Patriots, in which the team went to an 11–0 record for the first time in franchise history, was the second highest rated cable program to date.[2] After becoming 13–0 with their win over the Atlanta Falcons, it marked the Saints' best start to a season in its franchise history. The result clinched an NFC playoff berth, a bye in the first round of the playoffs. By winning their first 13 games, the Saints also set the record for the longest undefeated season opening (13-0) by an NFC team since the AFL–NFL merger, eclipsing the previous record (12-0) held by the 1985 Chicago Bears. The team advanced to the 2009 NFC Championship game where they defeated the Minnesota Vikings 31-28 in overtime, sending the team to their first Super Bowl appearance in franchise history.
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"When the Saints Go Marching In" often referred to as "The Saints," is a United States gospel hymn that has taken on certain aspects of folk music. Though it originated as a spiritual, today people are more likely to hear it played by a jazz band. The song is sometimes confused with a similarily titled composition "When the Saints are Marching In" from 1896 by Katharine Purvis (lyrics) and James Milton Black (music).[1]
A traditional use of the song is as a funeral march. In the funeral music tradition of New Orleans, Louisiana, often called the "jazz funeral", while accompanying the coffin to the cemetery, a band would play the tune as a dirge. On the way back from the interment, it would switch to the familiar upbeat "hot" or "Dixieland" style. While the tune is still heard as a slow spiritual number on rare occasions, from the mid 20th century it has been more commonly performed as a "hot" number. The number remains particularly associated with the city of New Orleans, to the extent that it is associated with New Orleans' professional football team, the New Orleans Saints.
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. However, Armstrong was in a New Orleans tradition of turning church numbers into brass band and dance numbers that went back at least to Buddy Bolden's band at the very start of the 20th century.
The tune was brought into the early rock and roll repertory by Fats Domino and (as "The Saint's Rock and Roll") by Bill Haley & His Comets.
A true jazz standard, it has been recorded by a great many other jazz and pop artists.
It is nicknamed "The Monster" by some jazz musicians, as it seems to be the only tune some people know to request when seeing a Dixieland band, and some musicians dread being asked to play it several times a night. The musicians at Preservation Hall in New Orleans got so tired of playing it that the sign announcing the fee schedule ran $1 for standard requests, $2 for unusual requests, and $5 for "The Saints". (This was in early 1960s dollars. By 2004 the price had gone up to $10.)
This tune and often the words are often used as a popular theme or rallying song for a number of sports teams (see When The Saints Go Marching In in sport).
The Rhodesian Light Infantry, also known as "The Saints", used it as their regimental march.
[edit] LyricAnalysis 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 Final Judgement 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.
[edit] Artists who have performed and recorded the song
This is not a comprehensive list, but includes some notable versions.
[edit] As gospel hymn
This song is available in the Elvis Presley compilation "Peace in the Valley: The Complete Gospel Recordings." Sony BMG/Elvis Music [4]
[edit] With traditional lyrics
As mentioned in the article on the song itself, in the 1930s, Louis Armstrong helped make The Saints into a jazz standard.
The tune was brought into the early rock and roll repertory by Fats Domino as one of the traditional New Orleans numbers he often played to rock audiences. Domino would usually use "The Saints" as his grand finale number, sometimes with his horn players leaving the stage to parade through the theater aisles or around the dance floor.
Judy Garland sang it in her own pop style.
Elvis Presley performed the song during the Million Dollar Quartet jam session and also recorded a version for his film, Frankie and Johnny.
Other early rock artists to follow Domino's lead included Jerry Lee Lewis and Tony Sheridan (featuring then-unknown band The Beatles as a backing group).
It makes a current resurgence on the Bruce Springsteen with The Seeger Sessions Band Tour, as an encore for some shows.
Dolly Parton has also included the song in a gospel medley.
[edit] With non-traditional lyrics
Bill Haley & His Comets recorded a the song with different lyrics as "The Saints Rock and Roll." The version performed by Haley (and others) removes most religious imagery in favor of references to musicians ("When that rhythm starts to go/I want to be in that number/When that rhythm starts to go.").
The Oi! band Condemned 84 did a version called "When The Boots Go Marching In."
One of the pub scene in the movie Green Street Hooligan, the song is sung, with lyrics arranged for West Ham United FC supporters, and goes like this: "Oh west London, is wonderful, Oh west London is wonderful, It's full of tits, of fannies and West Ham, Oh west London is wonderful"
Norwegian group, Timbersound's album "Solve et Coagula" also contains a version of the song, and includes a reference to the archangel Gabriel himself.
Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye performed a comedy duet version naming composers and musicians who would play "on the day that the saints go marching in".
Woody Guthrie sang a song called "When The Yanks Go Marching In."
It is the team song for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (national Australian Rules competition).
In 1983, 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) recorded a popular version of the song incorporating the team's "Who Dat?" chant.[5]
[edit] With no lyrics
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.[6]
A portion of the song was also used in the "boss" music of the "Out of This Dimension" Easter egg stage in the game Star Fox for the SNES.
A techno remix of this song, titled "Saints Go Marching," is a playable song in some versions of Dance Dance Revolution.
As with many numbers with long traditional folk use, there is no one "official" version of the song or its lyrics. This extends so far as confusion as to its name, with it often being mistakenly called "When the Saints Come Marching In". As for the lyrics themselves, their very simplicity makes it easy to generate new verses. Since the first, second, and fourth lines of a verse are exactly the same, and the third standard throughout, the creation of one suitable line in iambic tetrameter generates an entire verse.
It is impossible to list every version of the song, but a common standard version runs:
- We are trav'ling in the footsteps
- Of those who've gone before,
- And we'll all be reunited,
- On a new and sunlit shore,
- Of those who've gone before,
- Oh, when the saints go marching in
- Oh, when the saints go marching in
- Lord, how I want to be in that number
- When the saints go marching in
- Oh, when the saints go marching in
- And when the sun refuse to shine
- And when the sun refuse to shine
- Lord, how I want to be in that number
- When the sun refuse to shine
- And when the sun refuse to shine
- And when the moon turns red with blood
- And when the moon turns red with blood
- Lord, how I want to be in that number
- When the moon turns red with blood
- And when the moon turns red with blood
- Oh, when the trumpet sounds its call
- Oh, when the trumpet sounds its call
- Lord, how I want to be in that number
- When the trumpet sounds its call
- Oh, when the trumpet sounds its call
- Some say this world of trouble,
- Is the only one we need,
- But I'm waiting for that morning,
- When the new world is revealed.
- Is the only one we need,
- Oh When the new world is revealed
- Oh When the new world is revealed
- Lord, how I want to be in that number
- When the new world is revealed
- Oh When the new world is revealed
- Oh, when the saints go marching in
- Oh, when the saints go marching in
- Lord, how I want to be in that number
- When the saints go marching in
- Oh, when the saints go marching in
Often the first two words of the common third verse line ("Lord, how") are sung as either "Oh, Lord" or even "Lord, Lord."
Arrangements vary considerably. The simplest is just an endless repetition of the chorus. Verses may be alternated with choruses, or put in the third of 4 repetitions to create an AABA form with the verse as the bridge.
One common verse in "hot" New Orleans versions runs (with considerable variation) like thus:
- I used to have a playmate
- Who would walk and talk with me
- But since she got religion
- She has turned her back on me.
- Who would walk and talk with me
Some traditional arrangements often have ensemble rather than individual vocals. It is also common as an audience sing-along number. Versions using call and response are often heard, e.g.:
- Call: Oh when the Saints
- Response: Oh when the Saints!
Louis Armstrong - When The Saints Go Marching In
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA
Gospel Version, Gaithers Group
"When the Saints go marching in" live Jake Hess, Jerry Blackwood, Gospel Choir
When the Saints Go Marchin' In-Fats Domino
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e8Y34L8msA&feature=related
Judy Garland and and Liza Minelli - 'When The Saints Go Marching In' 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wtEhZaWbrE
Aaron Neville • When The Saints Go Marching In
Bring 'Em to the Dome- New Orleans Saints Anthem
WHO DAT! WHO DAT! WHO DAT SAY THEY GON BEAT THEM SAINTS!
"Bring em to the Dome" by Shamarr Allen & Dee
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Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
Have a great day,
Tommy
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