Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Cherry - Louis Armstrong, Mills Brothers
2. Perdido Street Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
3. 2:19 Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
4. Down in Honky Tonk Town - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
5. Coal Cart Blues - Louis Armstrong
6. Everything's Been Done Before - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
7. I Cover the Waterfront - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
8. In the Gloaming - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
9. Long, Long, Ago - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
10. Hey Lawdy Mama - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
11. I'll Get Mine Bye and Bye - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
12. Do You Call That a Buddy? - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
13. Yes Suh! - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
14. When It's Sleepy Time Down South - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
15. Leap Frog - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
16. I Used to Love You (But It's All Over Now) - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
17. You Rascal You - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
18. (Get Some) Cash for Your Trash - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
19. Among My Souvenirs - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
20. Coquette - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
21. I Never Knew - Louis Armstrong
22. Jack Armstrong Blues - Louis Armstrong, V-Disc All Stars
23. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) - Louis Armstrong,
24. You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart) - Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Haggart Orchestra
25. Frim Fram Sauce - Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Haggart Orchestra

Disc 2:

1. Long, Long Journey - Louis Armstrong, Esquire All-Americans
2. Snafu - Louis Armstrong, Esquire All-Americans
3. Linger in My Arms a Little Longer - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
4. Whatta Ya Gonna Do? - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
5. No Variety Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
6. Joseph 'N His Brudders - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
7. Back O'Town Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
8. I Want a Little Girl - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
9. Sugar - Louis Armstrong
10. Blues for Yesterday - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
11. Blues in the South - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
12. Endie - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
13. Blues Are Brewin' - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
14. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? - Louis Armstrong & His Dixieland Seven
15. Where the Blues Were Born in New Orleans - Louis Armstrong & His Dixieland Seven
16. Mahogany Hall Stomp - Louis Armstrong & His Dixieland Seven
17. I Wonder, I Wonder - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
18. I Believe - Louis Armstrong
19. Why Doubt My Love? - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
20. It Takes Time - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
21. You Don't Learn That in School - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
22. Ain't Misbehavin' - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
23. Rockin' Chair - Louis Armstrong

Disc 3:

1. Back O' Town Blues - Louis Armstrong
2. Pennies from Heaven - Louis Armstrong
3. Save It, Pretty Mama - Louis Armstrong
4. St. James Infirmary - Louis Armstrong
5. Jack-Armstrong Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
6. Rockin' Chair - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
7. Some Day (You'll Be Sorry) - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
8. Fifty-Fifty Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
9. Song Was Born - Louis Armstrong,
10. Please Stop Playing Those Blues - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
11. Before Long - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
12. Lovely Weather We're Having - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
13. Muskrat Ramble - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
14. Black and Blue - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
15. Royal Garden Blues - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
16. Lover - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
17. Stars, Fell on Alabama - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
18. I Cried for You - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
19. Since I Fell for You - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
20. Tea for Two - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars

Disc 4:

1. Body and Soul - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
2. Steak Face - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
3. Mahogany Hall Stomp - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
4. On the Sunny Side of the Street - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
5. High Society - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
6. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
7. That's My Desire - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
8. C Jam Blues - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
9. Boff-Boff - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
10. Maybe It's Because - Louis Armstrong, Sy Oliver's Orchestra
11. I'll Keep the Lovelight Burning (In My Heart) - Louis Armstrong, Sy Oliver's Orchestra
12. You Can't Lose a Broken Heart - Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sy Oliver's Orchestra
13. My Sweet Hunk O' Trash - Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sy Oliver's Orchestra
14. New Orleans Function (Free as a Bird/Oh Didn't He Ramble) - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
15. Vie en Rose - Louis Armstrong, Sy Oliver's Orchestra
16. C'Est Si Bon - Louis Armstrong, Sy Oliver's Orchestra
17. Life Is So Peculiar - Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan
18. You Rascal You - Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #108994 in Music
• Released on: 2001-07-23
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Import
• Dimensions: .50 pounds

Album Description
UK budget-price 4 CD box-set. Includes 48 page illustrated booklet. Tracks include 'Perdido Street Blues', 'Coal Cart Blues', 'Aint Misbehavin'', 'Before Long', 'Body And Soul', 'La Vie En Rose', & many more. Packaged in standard jewel cases in a slipcase. 2001.

Customer Reviews

Over four hours of GREAT music
I can't believe I've gone this long in my life without owning this fantastic collection of Satchmo in the Forties.
Do you like pure jazz?
Do you like the big band sound?
Do you like blues?
Do you like the New Orleans sound?
Do you like awesome trumpet playing?
Do you like Louis Armstrong?
It's all here. Some of the best music you'll ever own. I just recently purchased "C'est Ci Bon" and can't be bothered with listening to anything else.
The two renditions of "Rocking Chair" are worth the purchase price alone. As with many other cuts this one features the vastly underrated Jack Teagarden along with Satchmo.
Other featured performers include Billie Holiday, the Mills Brothers, Barney Bigard, Earl Hines, Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton. A veritable who's who of the mid century music industry.
Of course Armstrong is the star attraction and I have to revise my previously held views and say that this was when he was at this best. He was, by comparison, rougher in the Thirties and blander in the Fifties. His voice, his horn playing and his arrangements are at their best in this set. Enclosed with the set is one of the better insert booklets you'll come across, replete with background information, full discography and pictures.
Great music and a great bargain.

WOW!
A short simple WOW! This is an absolutely glorious collection of Armstrong classics. Should be in everyone's music collection.