[1958] Louis Armstrong - Louis Under the Stars [MGV-4012]

[1958] Louis Armstrong - Louis Under the Stars [MGV-4012]

A1: Top Hat, White Tie and Tails - 4:12
A2: Have You Met Miss Jones? - 4:39
A3: I Only Have Eyes for You - 4:14
A4: Stormy Weather - 4:16
B1: Home - 5:48
B2: East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) - 3:18
B3: You're Blasé - 4:56
B4: Body and Soul - 4:39

This is the original mono LP, ripped to FLAC in April 2016.

Louis Armstrong was a famous trumpet player and singer with a distinctive, tonal growl. On this album, he sings a number of standards with accompaniment in the lounge/Hollywood/Vegas style of gentle jazz-pop that was very popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Each song has a vocal portion and an instrumental portion of equal or greater length, featuring Armstrong's solo trumpet skills.

This record was in pretty good shape. What little surface noise there was, I was able to remove manually so as not to interfere with the music. There may still be a few stray clicks here and there, though, so please consider it part of the charm of listening to old records.