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1.1 Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen1.2 Shadrack1.3 Go Down, Moses1.4 Rock My Soul1.5 Ezekiel Saw the Wheel1.6 On My Way1.7 Down By the Riverside1.8 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot1.9 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child1.10 Jonah and the Whale1.11 Didn't It Rain1.12 This Train1.13 When Did You Leave Heaven?1.14 You're a Heavenly Thing1.15 I Married An Angel1.16 A Sinner Kissed An Angel1.17 Angela Mia1.18 Angel Child1.19 And the Angels Sing1.20 Fools Rush in1.21 I'll String Along with You1.22 Angel1.23 The Prisoner's Song1.24 Good Night, Angel1.25 Dear Old Southland (*) |
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Description: | Limited edition CD release of 1958 *â??Louis Armstrong and the Good Bookâ??* plus bonus album *â??Louis and the Angelsâ??* and bonus track *â??Dear Old Southlandâ??*. - ..GOODBOOK/ LOUIS AND THE ANGELS/ 1 BONUS TRACKDeluxe Edition: Thick Cardboard Fold Open Mini-LP Replica With Inner Slleeves. 24-Bit Remastered. The two albums included here were among the "pop intended" productions Decca put into the market in the mid-Fifties, in an attempt to sell Louis Armstrong to a wider audience. In fact, in addition to being a seminal jazz figure both as a trumpeter and as a vocalist, Louis had always been a true pop artist. Having Joe Glaser as hisagent, Louis was also one of the few jazz musicians with the freedom to record for as many companies as he wished at the same time. During the same years in which Decca's Milt Gabler produced these pop LPs, Norman Granz made Louis record more straight ahead jazz albums with Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson, as well as the classic rendering of Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" with Ella and an orchestra conducted by Russell Garcia. This said, it must be pointed out that Gabler was also responsible for recording Louis in one of the most satisfactory projects of his later years, a multi-LP set titled "A Musical Autobiography" (finished slightly before the first session for Louis and the Angels), on which Satch revisited old songs and blues he had recorded in the Twenties and Thirties and which he hadn't played for a long time. In any case, despite being less jazz-oriented than the aforementioned items, "Louis and the Good Book" and "Louis and the Angels" (especially the former) also contain their gems. As the original liner notes of "Louis and the Good Book" rightly point out, these were not Armstrong's first recordings of spiritual tunes. He had done some renderings of these songs in the Thirties, and he probably knew all of them since childhood as part of his cultural heritage.CD comes in mini LP style gatefold jacket release with obi-strip (on which is printed the tracklist) including an inner paper sleeve. "Limited Edition. 24-bit remastered" sticker on the shrink wrap.
Tracks 1-12: New York, February 4-7, 1958.
Tracks 13-24: New York, January 29-30, 1957.
Track 25: New York, January 28, 1957. |
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No. of tracks: |
25 |
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Manufacturer No.: |
01281229 |
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