Hello Dolly! (Album)

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Hello Dolly
Studio album by Louis Armstrong

Publication
(s)

1964

admission

1964

Label (s) Kapp Records , MCA Records

Format (s)

LP / CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

12

running time

37:50

occupation

production

Michael Kapp

chronology
Recording Together for the First Time ,
with Duke Ellington
(1961)
Hello Dolly Louis
(1966)

Hello Dolly! is a jazz album by Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, to which u. a. Joe Darensbourg , Billy Kyle , Big Chief Russell Moore , Arvell Shaw and Trummy Young included. The recordings were made on December 3, 1963 and April 18, 1964 in New York City and were released in 1964 on Kapp Records . It became Armstrong's most commercially successful album.

Background of the album

In late 1963, 62-year-old Louis Armstrong had slipped a little out of the spotlight in the music business; "Jazz had turned away from popular music in the late 1940s, and this had turned away from Louis Armstromg's style of the '50s," wrote William Ruhlmann in Allmusic . The trumpeter continued to tour, guested on Ralph Gleason's TV show Jazz Casual in 1963 and occasionally recorded (with Dave Brubeck and Duke Ellington , among others ), but seemed to have reached the zenith of his career. In December 1963 Armstrong made a demo recording of Hello, Dolly! At the instigation of his manager Joe Glaser . for the publisher of the musical song to promote the show. Louis Armstrong and his musicians not initially kept much of the "then thrown piece" and the record company still took the overdub method, a banjo -Begleitung on to recording spice things up.

The musical of the same name premiered on January 16, 1964 and was a great success. That same month , the record label Kapp Records released Armstrong's demo recording as a single , which became a number 1 hit in the United States, ending the Beatles' hit series with Can't Buy Me Love . Meanwhile, an album with the music of the Broadway musical Hello, Dolly! u. a. with Carol Channing , who introduces the theme song; this album was # 1 on the LP charts for a week in June 1964. Armstrong's LP, which Kapp Records had hastily finished recording on April 18, became even more commercially successful. It was six weeks (June 13th - July 24th) at position 1 on the album charts and contained another hit; the single I Still Get Jealous by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne , which is similar in structure, pace and duration to Helly Dolly! came to # 45 on the American pop charts. The other songs, etc. a. by Johnny Mercer , Bert Kalmar, and Harry Warren , were from popular Broadway shows; additionally created a new recording of Blueberry Hill . Armstrong had recorded the song in 1949 with the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra; He became popular especially through the cover version of Fats Domino (1956), which was based on Armstrong's version. Armstrong received the Grammy Award in the Song of the Year category in 1964 .

Louis Armstrong at a press conference in East Berlin, March 19, 1965

The release of the single and the long-playing record brought Armstrong great success again in the mid-1960s, which appeared in numerous television shows and several Hollywood films in the following years.

Track list

  • Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly! (Kapp Records - KS-3364, MCA (Jap) 8146, MCA-Coral (G) COPS1780, 42013, Coral (E) CPS73, Mode (F) MDINT9692, MCA MCA-538 [CD])

A1 Hello, Dolly! (Jerry Herman) -2: 27
A2 It's Been a Long, Long Time ( Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne ) -2: 22
A3 A Lot of Livin 'to Do (Lee Adams / Charles Strouse) -2: 36
A4 A Kiss to Build a Dream On ( Bert Kalmar , Harry Ruby , Oscar Hammerstein II ) -4:31
A5 Someday (Louis Armstrong) -3: 41
A6 Hey, Look Me Over (Carolyn Leigh / Cy Coleman ) -2: 34

B1 I Still Get Jealous (Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne) -2: 13
B2 Moon River ( Johnny Mercer / Henry Mancini ) -2: 59
B3 Be My Life's Companion ( Bob Hilliard / Milton De Lugg) -2: 52
B4 Blueberry Hill (Al Lewis, Larry Stock / Vincent Rose ) -3:20
B5 You Are Woman, I Am Man (Bob Merrill / Jule Styne) -2:17
B6 Jeepers Creepers (Johnny Mercer / Harry Warren ) -4:39

reception

Greg Adams gave the album 3½ (out of 5) stars in Allmusic and wrote, Hello, Dolly! show Armstrong, who has one of the most recognizable and personal voices of the 20th century, with the best of the 1960s.

Digby Fairweather included the album in the Armstrong selection discography of Rough Guide Jazz , highlighting it with the single Helly Dolly! the trumpeter established himself with a new generation of fans in 1964.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 24, 2014)
  2. Billboard July 25, 1964, p. 27, cf. also Armstrong portrait on All About Jazz
  3. a b michaelminn.net ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / michaelminn.net
  4. ^ Scott Allen Nollen: Louis Armstrong: The Life, Music, and Screen Career. 2004, p. 173.
  5. allmusic.com
  6. allmusic.com
  7. Album information at Discogs
  8. allmusic.com
  9. Ian Carr , Brian Priestley , Digby Fairweather (Eds.): Rough Guide Jazz. ISBN 1-85828-137-7 .