| Product Code: | 2CP 17 |
| Artist: | Louis Armstrong |
| Origin: | Australia |
| Label: | CBS |
| Format: | LP |
| Availability: | In Stock |
| Condition: |
Cover: VG+
Record: VG+
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| Genre: | Jazz U |
Very smart clean double album with a very good crisp cover.
"Saint Louis Blues" is a popular American song, composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914. It remains a fundamental part of jazz musicians' repertoire. It was also one of the first blues songs to succeed as a pop song. It has been performed by numerous musicians in various styles, from Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith to Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Guy Lombardo, and the Boston Pops Orchestra. It has been called "the jazzman's Hamlet".[1]
The 1925 version sung by Bessie Smith, with Louis Armstrong on cornet, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1993. The 1929 version by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra (with Henry "Red" Allen) was inducted in 2008.
