Memphis Slim - 'You're The One' live [Colourised] 1972

The brilliant Memphis Slim interviewed by Elisabeth Desaint and playing live for French TV back on 15th January, 1972.

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Memphis Slim: Piano & Vocal
Jim Conley: Saxophone
Michel Denis: Drums

In 1962, Memphis Slim decided to settle permanently in Paris, a city that had captured his heart and imagination during his European tours. “Back home I’d either be sitting around or hustling, but here I work all I want, eat tons of great food, and keep on having fun,” he told a reporter. While in Paris, he married Christine Freys, the daughter of a Parisian night club owner, and continued to attract large crowds at the major European blues festivals. Slim also ran his own blues club in Paris, which he called the Memphis Melodies Club. He was considered a national treasure by the Parisians.

His brother Jesse said Slim was treated like a celebrity by the Parisians "When I went over to visit him for a month, everywhere we went it was 'Mr Slim!, Mr Slim!' The people worshipped him and wouldn't let him pay for anything. His money didn't spend! He was so popular that he had his own nightclub for a while and also a big travel agency. Every year he'd get a new Rolls (Royce) and he had a villa in the country and a house in the city. He had so much work coming his way that he gave a lot of jobs to other musicians to help him".

He appeared on television in numerous European countries, acted in several French films and wrote the score for À nous deux France (1970), and performed regularly in Paris, throughout Europe, and on return visits to the United States. In the last years of his life, he teamed up with the respected jazz drummer George Collier. The two toured Europe together and became friends.

Although he would still travel to the United States on infrequent occasions, Slim was full-heartedly Parisian. “I don’t think anything I’ve done would have been possible here if I had stayed here,” he said during a 1976 trip to America. After Collier died in August 1987, Slim rarely appeared in public, although he reunited with Matt "Guitar" Murphy for a gig at Antone's in Austin, Texas, in 1987.

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