Talk:St. Louis Blues (song)

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[edit] 2004 title discussion

The title in apostrophies 'Saint Louis Blues' is very awkward, I think. See my comment in Talk:St. Louis Blues for my proposed rearrangement/renaming of this and related pages. -- Infrogmation 18:53, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Moved to "Saint Louis Blues (music)". I'm in process of fixing the links, and will make "Saint Louis Blues into a disambiguation. -- Infrogmation 20:25, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)


[edit] St. Louis Blues, June 2007 article move discussion

Please see the discussion is taking place at Talk:St. Louis Blues (hockey)#Requested move BsroiaadnTalk 03:01, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move August 2007

As you can see above, I'm requesting a move back to "St. Louis Blues (song)" per Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Album_titles_and_band_names. For further explanation and discussion see here. InnocuousPseudonym 06:25, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

  • Support move to St. Louis Blues (song), WP:NC seems clear enough on this, although it's not explicit as far as I can see and probably should be. Andrewa 07:14, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose as instrumental versions of the composition have been at least as important as song versions. I'm not adverse to proposals for other ways to disambiguate ("St. Louis Blues (W.C. Handy)" or "St. Louis Blues (composition)" perhaps?) but don't care for calling a tune a "song" when non-song versions are common and famous. -- Infrogmation 13:19, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
The fact that it has been recorded in instrumental versions does not make it any less of a song. It was written and published with lyrics (quite famous ones, actually). "(composition)" is generally reserved for works without lyrics. Have a look at Category:Jazz standards and its subcategories for a sense of the lay of the land and see the naming conventions page linked above. InnocuousPseudonym 17:21, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Support move to St. Louis Blues (song), although the tune is notable, is the alternative creating separate articles for the composition, and for the lyrics? I feel the form is that other popular songs by say, Porter or the Gershwins are 'songs' despite the tune being in many cases as recognisable, and in several cases, the song being introduced as an instrumental. I also feel that St Louis Blues, which currently directs to the Hockey team, should redirect people to the disambig page. Gareth E Kegg 18:28, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


Now that the move has been made, can those who voted for it please help fix links so they go directly to the new title? (I've already fixed several myself.) Thanks, -- Infrogmation 18:19, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

I'll get on it. InnocuousPseudonym 19:01, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Changed it for everything except Talk and User pages. InnocuousPseudonym 20:16, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The St. Louis Blues?

According to the original record picture in the article, the full name of the song should be "The St. Louis Blues". I want to move it there but want a consensus before doing so. Tavix (talk) 00:35, 27 February 2008 (UTC)