Louis Armstrong

LIMITED EDITION CD RELEASE

MINI-LP PAPERSLEEVE GATEFOLD REPLICAS WITH OBI

INCLUDES 6 BONUS TRACKS

When I was a kid”, Louis Armstrong says, “I used to go singing around in churches or choirs or on street corners. You’d get four hustlers on a corner who could make a sharp quartet. We’d pass the hat and sometimes we’d make as much as $1.50 a night. That was like $150 a night now.”

This recollection places Satchmo’s vocal career ahead of his hornblowing life by several years and means that he has been singing, for pleasure and money, over half a century. Since today his popularity with the general public can be credited even more to his singing than to the trumpet that originally made him a globally known figure, and since the present album is basically a set of vocal performances, it is interesting to note that this thorny, rock-bottomed approach to the use of the human voice predated (and in a sense predicted) similar melodic and rhythmic nuances on the cornet and trumpet.

PERSONNEL:

LOUIS ARMSTRONG, vocals & trumpet
OSCAR PETERSON, piano
HERB ELLIS, guitar
RAY BROWN, bass
LOUIS BELLSON, drums

Chicago, October 14, 1957

(**) BONUS TRACKS: Same personnel, Los Angeles, July 31, 1957

TRACKS:

01 THAT OLD FEELING
02 LET’S FALL IN LOVE
03 I’LL NEVER BE THE SAME
04 BLUES IN THE NIGHT
05 HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON?
06 I WAS DOING ALL RIGHT
07 WHAT’S NEW?
08 MOON SONG
09 JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS
10 THERE’S NO YOU
11 YOU GO TO MY HEAD
12 SWEET LORRAINE
13 INDIANA (*)
14 LET’S FALL IN LOVE (alternate version) (*)
15 I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU (**)
16 MAKIN’ WHOOPEE (**)
17 WILLOW WEEP FOR ME (**)
18 LET’S DO IT (LET’S FALL IN LOVE) (**)

TOTAL TIME: 79:24

(*): Songs from the same session that were not included on the original LP.
(**) Same personnel, Los Angeles, July 31, 1957.