LOUIS ARMSTRONG - SATCHMO THE GREAT / PHILIPS BBL 7216

LOUIS ARMSTRONG - SATCHMO THE GREAT / PHILIPS BBL 7216

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Music and Dialogue Excerpts from the Film Soundtrack featuring LOUIS ARMSTRONG and EDWARD R. MURROW with Leonard Bernstein

Musical Numbers:

WHEN IT'S SLEEPY TIME DOWN SOUTH (Clarence Muse, Lean and Otis Rene) Vocal chorus by Louis Armstrong

INDIANA  (James F. Hanky, Bollard MacDonald)

FLEE AS A BIRD TO THE MOUNTAIN  (Traditional)

OH, DIDN'T HE RAMBLE!  (Traditional)

MACK, THE KNIFE (Kurt Weill; Marc Blitzstein) Vocal chorus by Louis Armstrong

MAHOGANY HALL STOMP  (Spencer Williams)

ALL FOR YOU, LOUIS (original title SLY MONGOOSE) (Traditional African chant)

(WHAT DID I DO TO BE) SO BLACK AND BLUE (Fats Waller, Harvey Brooks, Andy Razaf ) Vocal chorus by Louis Armstrong

ST. LOUIS BLUES (Concerto Grosso) (W. C. Handy)

PERSONNEL:

All For You, Louis: Louis Armstrong (trumpet), Edmond Hall (clarinet), James 'Trummy' Young (trombone) and African musicians, at the Accra Airport, Ghana, West Africa.

St. Louis Blues: Louis, Edmond Hall, 'Trummy' Young, Billy Kyle (piano) Dale Jones (bass), and Barrett Deems (drums), with the Lewisohn Stadium Orchestra  (consisting of eighty-eight members of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra) conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Recorded during a public concert at the Lewisohn Stadium, New York, on July 14th, 1956.

All the other selections were recorded by Louis, Edmond Hall, 'Trummy' Young,, Billy Kyle and Barrett Deems with Dale Jones, Jack Lesberg or Arvell Shaw on bass.