Research Catalog

Title

The Best of Louis Armstrong [sound recording].

Author

Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971.

Publication

Universal City, Calif. : MCA Records, [1973]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Young, Trummy.
• All Stars (Musical group : Louis Armstrong)
• Gordon Jenkins Orchestra.
• Sy Oliver Choir.

Description

2 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.

Alternative Title

• Dipper mouth.
• Basin street blues.
• King of the Zulus.
• Cornet chop suey.
• Potato head blues.
• Mahogany hall stomp.
• On the sunny side of the street.
• Lazy river.
• Georgia on my mind.
• I surrender dear.
• Exactly like you.
• Some of these days.
• Kiss to build a dream on.
• Vie en rose.
• Blueberry hill.
• Whiffenpoof song (baa baa baa)
• Boppenpoof song.
• When it's sleepy time down south.
• I can't give you anything but love.

Subjects

• Jazz > 1921-1930
• Jazz > 1931-1940
• Jazz > 1951-1960
• Jazz > 1941-1950

Note

• MCA Records: MCA2-4035 (previously released as Decca DXSB7-183).
• Jazz ensembles.
• In automatic sequence; in one container.
• Program notes by Stanley Dance on container.

Event (note)

• Formerly released on Decca, DXSB7-183; recorded between 1923 and 1955.

Contents

• Dipper mouth / Joe Oliver (with the All Stars) (3:14) -- Basin street blues / Spencer Williams (with the All Stars) (3:49) -- King of the Zulus / Lillian Hardin Armstrong (with the All Stars, talking by Trummy Young and Louis Armstrong) (3:52) -- Cornet chop suey / Louis Armstrong (with the All Stars) (2:58) -- Potato head blues / Louis Armstrong (with the All Stars) (2:23) -- Mahogany hall stomp / Spencer Williams (with Orchestra) (3:55) -- On the sunny side of the street / Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields (with Orchestra, vocal Louis Armstrong) (3:48) -- Lazy river / Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin (with Orchestra, vocal Louis Armstrong) (3:47) -- Georgia on my mind / Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell (with Orchestra, vocal Louis Armstrong) (3:02) -- I surrender dear / Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford (with Orchestra, vocal Louis Armstrong) (4:37) -- Exactly like you / Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields (with Orchestra, vocal Louis Armstrong) (4:05) -- Some of these days / Shelton Brooks (with Orchestra, vocal Louis Armstrong) (3:02).
• A kiss to build a dream on / Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Oscar Hammerstein II (with Orchestra, vocal Louis Armstrong) (3:00) -- La vie en rose / Mack David Louiguy (with Orchestra, vocal Louis Armstrong) (3:20) -- Blueberry hill / Al Lewis, Larry Stock, Vincent Rose (vocal by Louis Armstrong with Gordon Jenkins Orchestra and Chorus) (2:52) -- The whiffenpoof song (baa baa baa) (the boppenpoof song) / Meade Minnigerode ... [et al.] (vocal by Louis Armstrong with Gordon Jenkins Orchestra and Chorus) (2:55) -- When it's sleepy time down south / Leon Rene, Otis Rene, Clarence Muse (with the All Stars, vocal Louis Armstrong) (3:15).
• I can't give you anything but love / Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields (with Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, vocals) (4:16) -- When you're smiling (The whole world smiles back with you) / Larry Shay, Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin (with Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, vocals) (4:00) -- Song of the islands / Charles E. King (with Orchestra, scat vocal by Louis Armstrong) (4:00) -- If I could be with you (One hour tonight) / Henry Creamer, James P. Johnson (with Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, vocals) (3:16) -- Memories of you / Andy Razaf, Eubie Blake (with Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, vocals) (3:25) -- (I'll be glad when you're dead) You rascal you / San Theard (with Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, vocals) (3:15).

Call Number

*LZR 32142

OCLC

3438846

Author

Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971. Performer

Title

The Best of Louis Armstrong [sound recording].

Imprint

Universal City, Calif. : MCA Records, [1973]

Performer

Louis Armstrong, trumpet, with orchestra.

Event

Formerly released on Decca, DXSB7-183; recorded between 1923 and 1955.

Added Author

Young, Trummy.

All Stars (Musical group : Louis Armstrong)

Gordon Jenkins Orchestra.

Sy Oliver Choir.

Added Title

Dipper mouth.

Basin street blues.

King of the Zulus.

Cornet chop suey.

Potato head blues.

Mahogany hall stomp.

On the sunny side of the street.

Lazy river.

Georgia on my mind.

I surrender dear.

Exactly like you.

Some of these days.

Kiss to build a dream on.

Vie en rose.

Blueberry hill.

Whiffenpoof song (baa baa baa)

Boppenpoof song.

When it's sleepy time down south.

I can't give you anything but love.

Publisher No.

MCA2-4035 MCA Records

DXSB7-183 Decca

Research Call Number

*LZR 32142 Program notes on container.