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Artist: Louis Armstrong And The All-Stars Title: I Love Jazz! Label:   Verve Country: Europe Date: 7 Aug 2000 Catalogue: 543 747-2 Barcode: 731454374729 Format: CD Album Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search on eBay

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
01	Louis Armstrong And The All-Stars	I Love Jazz	Sydney Shaw	Rate
02	Louis Armstrong And The All-Stars	Twelfth Street Rag	Euday Bowman	Rate
03	Louis Armstrong And The All-Stars	Basin Street Blues	Spencer Williams	Rate
04	Louis Armstrong And The All-Stars	Skokiaan (South African Song)	August Msarurgwa, Tom Glazer	Rate
05	Louis Armstrong And The All-Stars	Frog-I-More Rag	Jelly Roll Morton	Rate
06	Louis Armstrong And The All-Stars	Otchi-Tchor-Ni-Ya	Traditional	Rate
07	Louis Armstrong And The All-Stars	Tenderly/You'll Never Walk Alone	Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II	Rate
08	Louis Armstrong And The All-Stars	Pretty Little Missy	Louis Armstrong, Billy Kyle	Rate
09	Louis Armstrong And The All-Stars	I Love Jazz - Alternative Take	Sydney Shaw	Rate

Notes

Tracks 1-8 original LP issue I LOVE JAZZ! Decca DL 74227
Track 9 previously unissued.

The version of the song "I Love Jazz" included on the original LP of the same name was assembled from several different takes. It was also shortened by editing to omit the chorus that Armstrong raps over the band's stop-time passage. That edit also unfortunately deleted several beats from the transition to the next section. Those notes and the missing chorus have been restored on track 1 in order to complete the arrangement as played in the studio, and as found on the 45-rpm single release of the tune, Decca 30771. (They appear as index 2 on CD playback).

Disc face is black-and-white replica of Decca LP label.

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Number: 311730  THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: PhilMH Description: Front cover

Number: 311731  Uploaded By: PhilMH Description: Back cover

Number: 311732  Uploaded By: PhilMH Description: Inside (facsimile of LP back cover)

Number: 311733  Uploaded By: PhilMH Description: Disc face (black-and-white replica of Decca label)

Comments and Reviews

PhilMH 14th Feb 2016		Added a few tags to cover old and new labels and distributor.
PhilMH 19th Apr 2014		I've only just now noticed that the label is showing as Verve, when I'm pretty sure I originally entered it as "Verve By Request", reflecting what's on the cover, if not on the disc itself. Universal are a little bit inconsistent in how they brand some of their Verve series like By Request, Master Editions, LP Reproductions, Originals and so on. Mostly the series names are on the covers only, or at least within special sections of their website, but I do have another Louis Armstrong CD that has "Verve Originals" on the disc itself. I don't know that rigidly sticking to what's only on the disc is necessarily useful, I think we need to consider the entire package, and also the label website where appropriate. Anyway, just my tuppence worth on a Saturday night!
fixbutte 24th Mar 2014		Also in my mind, Skokiaan belongs to the best recordings that Armstrong made in the 1950s, and the lyrics (excerpt: "Oh-far away in Africa / Happy, happy Africa / ...You sing a bingo bango bingo / In hokey pokey skokiaan") are awful indeed although I like Satchmo's husky vocal omitted here. Interestingly, of all records he made this was also his first appearance on 45worlds CD Albums (there). For comparison only, I also link to the full, unabridged 5-minute version on YouTube:
PhilMH 22nd Mar 2014		"Skokiaan" now uploaded to YouTube. Enjoy! (Though it sounds a lot better on the CD, of course).
PhilMH 22nd Mar 2014		Reissue of circa 1960 Decca LP, marked as "Europe" but probably imported by many overseas Universal subsidiaries for release in their countries. Track 4 is the ultimate version of Louis' cover of "Skokiaan", taking from the 1954 single the whole of part 1, and the second half of part 2 from Barrett Deems' drum solo onwards, thus omitting the vocal section and its terrible lyrics written by Louis' manager Joe Glazer.

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