A very happy 114th birthday to Mr. Louis Armstrong. So let’s celebrate to his wonderful version of Edith Piaf’s La Vie en rose, accompanied by the comic visuals of WALL-E (sorry there’s a little more WALL-E than Satchmo on this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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A very happy 115th birthday to Mr. Louis Armstrong! Let’s celebrate his life by joining him in celebrating life in general with his wonderful and optimistic performance of the title song from Caberet! (minus all of that pesky cynicism and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A very special birthday for Mr. Louis Armstrong with We Have All The Time in the World
A very happy birthday to Mr. Louis Armstrong! Let’s celebrate with his version of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” When I first heard about this one I was about to write this off as another retread of a show tune. But[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A very happy 119th birthday to Mr. Louis Armstrong! Let’s celebrate, by listening to his take on Fats Waller’s Ain’t Misbehavin from his album, Scatch Plays Fats, with his All-Stars. And he ain’t neither!
We’re wishing Mr. Louis Armstrong a very happy 120th birthday! Let’s celebrate by listening to him jam with the one and only Ella Fitzgerald with “It Ain’t Necessarily So” from “Let’s Do It: The Best of the Verve Years. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hi everybody, let’s celebrate Mr. Louis Armstrong’s one hundred and twenty-first birthday by listening to his version of Frankie and Johnny. I’ve heard tons of versions of this old classic, but I really like the honky tonk quality of this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A very happy 102nd birthday to Mr. Louis Armstrong! Let’s celebrate by listening to Georgia on My Mind.
A very happy 123rd birthday to Mr. Louis Armstrong! You know, it’s embarrassing that for all the years I’ve been doing this I’ve never gotten around to doing Hello Dolly! Let’s correct that with Louis and his All-Stars playing it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…