BASIN STREET BLUES -  <br /><br />is a song often performed by Dixieland jazz bands, written by Spencer Williams. The song was published in 1926 and made famous in a recording by Louis Armstrong in 1928. The famous verse with the lyric &quot;Won&#39;t you come along with me/To the Mississippi...&quot; was later added by Glenn Miller and Jack Teagarden.<br /><br />The Basin Street of the title refers to the main street of Storyville, the notorious red-light district of the early 20th-century New Orleans French Quarter. It became a red light district in approximately 1870.<br /><br />Above information, for one of my favorite songs, is from Wikopedia&#33;&#33;&#33;