61 (D-1) Returning to New Orleans: Leaving the city, taking the music with us

As we return to New Orleans to fly back to France, take a moment for food and music again --> One last VOA listening exercise for you. Much of this information you have already discovered during our journey on this blog.   But there is new information too. For example, do you know the difference between alligators and crocodiles?
Listen.  Then listen and read:
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/a-23-2009-01-22-voa1-83144227/130598.html

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More music...back to New Orleans, back to Louis Armstrong:
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans 
("yonder" = http://context.reverso.net/traduction/anglais-francais/down+yonder )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAvp7xm1aNA

And let's go to Billy Holiday again:
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?  (1947)
I love this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhkxy3ei8os

And Louis Armstrong does this song too (1956):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS5MNK0_X_Q

And Rick Nelson sang it too (in a 1960 film), and it's with subtitles:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pafQdX0jYg

And Dianne Reeves sings it beautifully too (1991).  And watch the video of New Orleans with the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AztENFJI8VQ

And Harry Connick, Jr.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8DPNrrXdx0

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Do you know Hoagy Carmichael: 
New Orleans  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzfq3TQIefQ  (1932)

Dee Dee Bridgewater will be singing this song from her new album at the Jazz Festival in Vienne on June 27th.  Will I see you there?

Al Hirt, another famous trumpet player from New Orleans (one of my father's favorites) played this song too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4LpZAkju1M  (1987)

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What they said about New Orleans:

Mark Twain: "New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

Bob Dylan: "There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better."

Tennessee Williams:  "America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.  Everywhere else is Cleveland."  (Hey, that's not so nice for Clevelanders!)

and Françoise Sagan:  "You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine."

Jane says:  "We'll come back to New Orleans!"