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  • One of my favorite recordings of Pops and my favorite recording of Stardust!

  • THANK U THANK U THANK U SOOO MUCH..... -D

  • mitico Satchmo

  • Thank you Moggs1942---Louis Armstrong--an American icon!

  • when armstrong has turned to dust, his legacy will stay like the star

  • Best version of Stardust, in my esteemed opinion. Only Louis could blow his horn and then add his voice seamlessly. I used to have this album and regret selling it when I converted to CD's.

  • @chuckbuckbobuck This track is included in a double CD collection entitled "Woody's Winners,Classic tracks from the films of Woody Allen".,Sanctuary Record Group,ref. no. PDSCD 640.

  • Was this before or after he won the tour de france?

  • wow his voice is amazing, even though his voice was effected by his bad smoking habit

  • @destroyanator101 he smoked a lot of weed ..true fact!

  • @952406lin And also had a huge porn collection.

  • Perfection!  Dreamlike perfection!!

  • "these new guys, they play loud and they play fast, but NO ONE played MUSIC like Louis Armstrong."

  • Leonid meteor shower peaks tonight. Look southeast from 12:30 AM to 1:00 AM the morning of the 18thNovember. And while you're waiting for the Leonids, watch Mary J. Blige live on Youtube tonight at 8 PM Pacific time

  • circa 1931...

  • This music has been passed down the Armstrong line for generations.

    ...Yeah, I couldn't resist saying that.

  • Why couldnt he live longer>?!

  • You could never mistake the sound of his playing,it's like no other trumpeter.

  • @adoreslaurel That is absolutely correct. My fiancee and I were talking about this exact thing. It's amazing how it's distinguishable.

  • Louis Armstrong uses Hoagy Carmichael's brilliant standard as a base, strips it bare, adds his genius trumpet, his melodic voice and creates a piece that transcends the original. Truly beautiful.

  • Louis Armstrong is just such an amazing artist. he's trumpet solos are just pure perfection!

  • The best version of Stardust there ever has been !!! Alternate take in Woody Allen's 'Stardust Memories' IS sublime. Watch Charlotte Rampling read the Sunday paper to that one!

  • @gplynes I thought that movie was so so, but that scene was incredible

  • Shaw's version is okay. A bit syrupy and over lush for me. This version is rhythmically and harmonically superior. This is jazz. Shaw's is the pop music of the time. Louie's singing and playing however is magic. He was the originator who taught the world how to sing, how to play, and what it means to have class doing both.

  • sometimes i wonder why i spend such lonely nights

  • This IS one of my favorite versions of this song. I, also, first heard it in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories, when I was first discovering there was something greater than the mainstream. Just for fun, mind you, check out Ringo Starr's version, complete with drum solo!

  • This was my late mother's favorite song in the world. I'm playing it now in hopes that wherever she is she'll hear it and enjoy it once again.

  • Man It's just the best

  • Beautiful beautiful beautiful... Oh how much fun it would have been to dance your troubles away, even for just a little while, to this wonderful music.

  • When Satchmo went to heaven, Gabriel stepped aside.

  • @bamboosa I know that's right!

  • Damn. Mofo can sing AND play.

  • magic Louis

  • I can hear the roots of bop, and Diz in his playing....but he originated it...just amazing..the rhythmic subtley he employs is just beyond anything done at the time..

  • it makes me feel so good. especially as a young trumpet player. im about to learn this song from this video

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  • Satchmo was a great musician. But as to recordings of Hoagy's "Stardust," IMHO no one can compared to Artie Shaw's classic recording in the mid-1940s. I danced to this record so many times at the Blue Room of the YWCA (in Charlotte NC), that Artie's solo (about 2/3 of the way through the recording) is burned forever into my brain.

  • @Dick7809 Never heard Artie Shaw OR his version. (checking it out now). I just wanted to hear this again after watching "Stardust Memories" (1980) (great film BTW, if you like Woody Allen(I do!). After hearing it, I like Louie's version better. While I do like Benny Goodman & Glenn Miller, I am really just not that into clarinet solos (personal preference), & least not in this song. I prefer it with a trumpet solo. Artie Shaw sounds interesting though. Thx for mentioning him.

  • @gjc82071 - you should also listen to Ben Webster's version (w/Duke Ellington). Django does a nice version as well. Artie Shaw did Stardust several times; one version is quite up tempo and great for dancing to.

  • Louis, Louis, Louis... We all must pay homage to Louis. He was The Greatest!

  • <3 Louis Armstrong, RIP

    ohhhhhhhh YEEAHHHHHHHHH.....

    mmmm...that sounded more like The Macho Man Randy Savage =/

    RIP too, Macho Man Randy Savage....

  • The. Best. Ever.

  • Won't be surpassed

  • 10 people are total haters

  • @adleach21 Yep!

  • Armstrong shines like a jewel here. Unfortunately, the jewel's setting, his backing band, are rather uninspired.

  • @aarfeld - I completely agree with you!

  • @aarfeld Sometimes I think that's the beauty of this version, the simplicity of it, that is. Makes the lyrics seem that much more innocent and meaningful. 

  • GREAT GREAT SATCHMO

  • Utterly amazing... When he riffs out singing "oh memory, oh, memory, oh memory" he captures something about the spirit of the song and the human spirit... Oh Louis!

  • ESTA VERSION DE LOUIS DE STARDUS ES INCREIBLE, UNICA ! !

    JAMAS OLVIDAREMOS A LOUIS, GRACIAS POR ESTO.

  • @kalarr1 ciertisimo, primer vez que la escucho!

  • not bad for an astronaut

  • @bcar1089993

    lol I think you mean Niel Armstrong ... XD

  • @bcar1089993 that's neil armstrong

  • Love it but must say I enjoy Shaw's version a bit more.

  • Louis is an angel

    *Jive bombers recording of this is also magical. The lead vocalist was obviously inspired by this recording.

  • Interesting, I just noticed (after decades of listening to this masterpiece) that when Louis starts singing at 1:16 he stays pretty much on the same note until 1:20, 1:21. Where else do we hear this? On another masterpiece, "Muggles" when he begins his superb horn solo. In most other musicians this soon sounds boring, but we know with Louis that great things will follow. He never ceases to amaze. As Robert Frost said of a good poem, "It begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

  • There's nothing better on the planet than a Satchmo tune. Just nothing.

  • Let me try again: He's more than a master musician and genius. Really a hero. So much love and beauty growing up in the time of "Strange Fruit" Heavens breath coming out of that horn.....:) like a locomotive working its way up a mountain.

  • So how did my little comment offend the censors?

  • I don't know why this brings me on the verge of tears everytime I listen to this.

  • I can't pick a favorite Louis song, I love them all...

  • probably the greatest soloist on any instrument, ever. they dont make them like that anymore.

  • this song and hello dolly are my favorite louis armstrong songs.

  • @ThemThems hello dolly ,really try west end blues or almost anything that came out of his small group recordings but hello dolly comeon

  • Like West End Blues, this version of Stardust is one of the most perfect moments in all of music.

  • Oh, God...this is...I'm speechless. HAHA!! Let's just give it 99,999999 stars and leave it at that haha!

  • Please tell me: the players and when did Stachmo record this version! Greetings from Argentina

  • @charlesnorte according to jazz.com it was recorded in Chicago, November 4, 1931. Simply, an amazing piece of work.

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  • Why do I get teared up everytime I hear Louis Armstrong sing this song---does anyone really need to ask why? Brilliance!

  • Thanks so much for this gem ... like others I'm struggling for words to describe the magic of Louis's music. He makes it sound so effortless--amazing ....

  • Totally genius...the phrasing is off the hook...

  • My dad was visiting from Houston, Texas he was enjoying my collection of Latin salsa and Swing Music smoking a Brisket this came on and he lite up like a he was young again, he is 84 was in heaven I have this version best I have ever heard, for pure soul I won’t name the good versions but this displays ole Pops in all his glory – Nobody yet to be his equal on that horn, try and listen to his “I’m in the Mood” another great, he toured all his life “The Ambassador of Good Will”

  • You can hear the connection to Loui Prima the way he would scat sing. You hear it in Louis's playing. Wonderful.

  • ladies and gents here is scatman in the 40s lol

  • this song reminds me of long time gone by when everything is just doing fine...no problems like we have today all we do is set by the porch and listen to the crackling radio from a far far place.....

  • Amazing how today people get degrees studying people who just let it happen... ??? makes you wonder.

  • the birth of mainstream music!

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  • i am a 16 year old boy that enjoys girls, driving and doing well... but i play my horn to louis armstrong all the time... he is so magical

  • Stunning!  Absolutely stunning!

  • it's a bittersweet truth, that i dont think i'll ever be as impressed by anything on god's green earth, as i am by this recording. one word: joy!

  • @IndependentGeorge76  It is simply remarkable isn't it? Apparently Louis and Earl Hines agreed with each other one day shortly after sales for the Hot Five & Seven recordings took off, that they had not anticipated sales going as well as they did. I wish I could remember the source for this story, but it is in one of my Louis books.

  • i l♥ve this sooooo much ^^ !!

  • Isn't this one of teh hottest sides ever recorded? Armstrong is so hot and at the same time so lyrical!

  • Me siento en las nubes escuchando esta cancion (debe ser la falta de sueño...y el estudio nocturno) gracias por subirlo

  • We won't see his like again. He was the greatest. We still have the music, though.

  • Seven people in this world somehow missed the "like" button and accidentally hit the "dislike" button. I mean, who doesn't agree that he's amazing. My friends listen to rock, and hip hop, I listen to this, he's just amazing.

  • @mrtaco19

    Sometimes the qualudes kick in at the wrong time. They probably didn't even see the "LIKE" button. Ludes can be unpredictable, especially when mixed with tequilla. That's why I'm cutting back on 'em.

  • @mrtaco19 no, they did not miss the like button. im sure it was entirely intentional. perhaps their musical taste differs from yours.

  • @mrtaco19 i listen to rock, hip hop, jazz-funk and this. diversify yo bonds nigga

  • this makwes me fell like in heaven, like a disney cartoon from the 50s

  • this make feel in heaven, like a walt dysney cartoon

  • Exquisitely elegant.

  • Go Louis! I also love Glenn Miller's version

  • Then there was the Fatherless Waif.The single most important music creator of all the generations the begining of movement.Thankyou whoever for Louis Armstrong the complete music maestro.

  • la mejor version de Stardust ....gracias louis...

  • I loved it when Woody Allen put this song in his movie "Stardust Memories."

    It was the best scene in the entire movie in my opinon.

  • lennon got it wrong.

    before elvis there was satchmo

    (sweeping statement for effect)

    I wonder what the lock-in late night jams with beiderbecke and armstrong sounded like (they couldn't play in public during bix's short life for racist reasons)

    no samples then thak god

  • People talk about musicians like gods, and people try to sound deep and meaningful on youtube, STFU people god....

  • @deltaofwar If the fine art of music does have "gods" (small g: there is of course only one "capital g God"...), then surely Louis Armstrong is one of them. He was as creative, vibrant and influential in the 20th century, as Beethoven was in the 19th, or Bach and Mozart were in the 18th centuries.

  • @HolyMotherofGrid Well said!

  • @deltaofwar and,some ppl don't know how important louis armstrong mean to Jazz music,may be they should STFU,instead of showing their ignorance

  • nat king cole would have been the first to admit that he used louis phrasing in his version

  • genio de toda la música del siglo. Único e irrepetible

  • listening to this makes me lose faith in our music industry, look where it has gone, we aren't progressing we are digressing, maybe genius will return someday.

  • I used to listen to this when my little boy couldn't sleep. I'd turn the pc on and play the best tunes of the great man from the 30s and 40s. Cradling my little boy in my arms and listening to Pops. Joy.

  • "oh memory..oh memory...oh memory"

  • @enakrium It is said that Hoagy Carmichael - composer (with lyrics by Mitchell Parish) of this, the most-played of all jazz tunes ("Take Five" being the most-requested) - searched for years to find a 78 with this three-repeat of "oh memory", preferred over the version in which Louis sings it twice. (source: p. 26, notes (Dan Morgenstern or Loren Schoenberg) describing this alternate take in the superb booklet accompanying the 4-CD set, "Portrait of The Artist As a Young Man".

  • @Urbino237 And yet it takes us only minutes to find it online....how times have changed!.... for good or bad is arguable isn't it.

  • @enakrium True enough, so let's keep searching through yard and garage sales. As Fats once remarked, "One never knows, do one?"

  • @Urbino237 I think my favourite version is the one that I heard on Woody Allens "radio days"... He says it just the one but he sings it real fluid and plays astonishingly.

    I'll upload so you can see what I mean

  • I love Louis for most of his work - but the best version? Then hear Nat King Cole's...

  • @neon854

    I love Nat King Cole's version, but my personal favorite is Keely Smith's. I dunno why, but hers just seems the most passionate, even though I am more a fan of Nat and Louis. Honestly though, between her, Nat, and Louis, it is pretty close.

  • I don't if this is the best version, but it is the one I have listened to about a hundred times.!!

  • Played as it should be - with a chugging beat. Also Well worth a listen is Lionel Hampton's 1947 version - perhaps the greatest

  • yeah, this is the best.

  • Resucitá, Amstrong!!!! Resucitá!!!

  • Just as a bit of trivia, according to the Wikipedia article about Woody Allen's film "Stardust Memories," its title "[...] alludes to the famous alternate take of 'Stardust' recorded in 1931 by Armstrong, wherein the trumpeter sings "oh, memory" three times in succession." In the present clip, this can be heard at about 2:15 through 2:21.

  • I always listen to New Orleans Stomp and La Vie en Rose.........*sign* that time Jazz was a passion.

  • Satchmo- El fue el único que hizo hablar a una trompeta. Genio irrepetible de la historia del mundo y la musica

  • I assume this was recorded in about 1939. Is this correct?

  • This is the greatest "big band"recording of all!

  • . . .And on the 8th day, after He rested sufficiently, He created Louis Armstrong.

  • @WSenator1 You have my unabashed admiration... I was going to say ""Louis, the roots of EVERYTHING..."

    ...but you said it better. My compliments.

  • @WSenator1 Ha! Good one!

  • @WSenator1 indeed Amen

  • @igotalovestoned what do mean by worst you ****ing little fagot

  • @igotalovestoned That a joke right?

  • I would like to thank djmane1 for putting this up. It's an amazing song. I really enjoy music from the 20's. Their music is inspirational to many, and especially during the harder times. Their music really helped out people and gave them hope. Well into the 40's the music hadn't changed much, and people could still have hope thanks to these amazing artists. Even today, if I played one of these songs to someone who was upset, it would be an instant switch to a better mood. Long live the legends.

  • Satchmo, you set the standard....

  • epic

  • Looking in Jazz Records by Brian Rust this is not 1929, but the November 4, 1931 recording. Oddly, there were at least four takes and three of them were issued. A wonderful thing it is. I hope many young people are discovering the greatness of Louis Armstrong. Posting this sure helps.

  • It doesn't matter the version, it's the best song ever written! I do really enjoy it and i fall in love again every time I listen it. I really thank my father for sharing to me his taste for jazz and big band music.

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  • Can anybody please tell me if this is the 1931 recording (or one of the later in the 40s done recordings)? It said to be one of his best after the period between 1927-1929...

    Anyway I like this one a lot!

  • it was recorded in 1929--Stachmo actually took two takes, this is the most polished one--both great anyway

  • Satchmo at his best.

  • i love this song my lady friends like it too,believe it or not :)

  • Coisa mais fabulosa e essa versao!!! To pasma!!! Obrigada por postar.

  • No music tune can be compared to this version of the best song ever written, No musician can match his soulful way to play or sing. I listened to this tune maybe 1000 times and still makes me cry for the emotion. I am italian but thanks to Him I always felt as I was born in New Orleans, for how much I think to feel his music.

  • you like west end?

  • you mean "West end blues"? Of course I do :)

  • I like it best taken at slow tempo.

  • If you're in a bad mood.. listen to this.

    :- D

  • If anyone asks you for an example of genius, play 'em this. We will never see his like again. My children, now adults, call me Pops (I'm a guitarist, do a lot of blues), but I'm not worthy to touch one of Louis' sweat stained handkerchiefs. What a man.

  • @slownoman I agree with you on this one. I came here just to take the stress off of the day before going to bed. He has done several songs that I like and a lot of solos that I love, but this is my fav Louis song ever.

  • @gotstrongdotcom Music can be magic, and Louis held the wand as well as anyone who ever drew breath. He exuded joy, even in mournful songs like "Black and Blue". I must admit, even though my mom was a big band singer and I grew up listening to a lot of jazz, I never knew the titan Louis was until the Ken Burns series. I was floored. I just knew the Stachmo from fifties and sixties variety shows, and the old movie High Society. What he does with this song is transcendent. Hail, Pops.

  • This is just gorgeous! Just about everything he ever did moves me to the very depths of my soul.

    Another terrific version of this great song is the one used on the TV Series, "Charmed". Anyone have any idea where to find a video or a recording of that verison. It is very beautiful and I would love to have it.

  • Music like this reminds me of my great-grandparents, who are now gone. I miss them so much!!! It must have been so amazing to live during this time period (for the music I mean). This is a beautiful song, and as a result, it will never lose it's fervor...

  • my mom told me about satchmosince i was 10 Im now 64!! we had a plAceIN the heart of our home for for this great man's panache and love of musici MISS him.

  • Played as Hoagy Carmichael intended - with a chugging rythm. Hear Lionel Hampton's greater rendition of 1947

  • genius of despair

  • His playing is so true.

  • My father recently told me that I was gaining an appreciation of Louis rather late in life;his own had begun when he was 10!Our next will go like this:I'll remind him,then ask if he put Louis on the record player the day I came home from the hospital!The lucky stiff got to spend an hour with Jack Teagarden when he was 12 before a show;the All-Stars then played an all request first set by he and my Grandmother!Through his music,and all of us,LOUIS LIVES!!Keep spreading the love!!!!!!

  • this is really a refreshing version of stardust! i by myself prefer the "lyrical" verison, because the power of the song itself is stronger, here in this version the "musicmaker" are of bigger importance

  • the beauty of music is like gold! It becomes more precious as times goes by. I have never heard this version, and it does make me wonder how powerful music can be if you put in love and talent. Sachmo, does a spectacle with this song! Splendid, in every way! something which i cannot deny. God Bless!

  • as wynton marsalis said these solos in pops later years are nearly impossible to copy

    pink panther

  • Satchmo playing with such heart and chops. What I want at my funeral and about a million more times before that fact

  • So glad I found this.Takes me straight back to 1958 in Singapore back street bar(Ritz) when I was finding out about "life"...now it nearly brings tears to my eyes thinking of those carefree days of a 16 year old in the East.memories do last!!

  • I was born that year, but I can relate with what you say. It was another song for me, but this is still good.

  • I don't think musicians of the day would have liked the whole 'speeding up' idea.If a player couldn't cut it in a certain key,at a certain tempo...there was probably somebody else around who could!"Sorry,Louis,I just can't play in D flat!(or F sharp or any other key)"...I just don't see that happening.These people were the cream of the crop.If I am wrong I would love to know!Realize different keys favor different instruments-the Beatles play 'Hey Jude' in F(better 4 piano);I play it in E(guitar)

  • This song is not sped-up. When orginally written it had a faster tempo, and evolved into s slower song.

  • no sorrry!!! original it is a lyrical one

  • I'm very curious about the 'speeding up' mentioned here.That seems to me darn near impossible with the primitive analog tech of the day.Remember,these musicians did not do overdubs.They typically used one mike and everybody huddled around it.If you made a mistake in a session like this with musicians of this caliber...well,you just didn't!It could literally end your career if word of that got around in those days.A player with as great an ear as Louis would know from hearing 1 note it was off!

  • the tempo is played faster

    not speed up after the recording

  • I might have already commented on this tune, but I have to say that piece lifts my soul when I feel blue.

    I came across this on some random album I bought when I thought I should get into jazz and thought maybe it has What a Wonderful World on it (yep didn't look at the back of the case).

    It didn't and in fact was a collection of his 30s and 40s work. I loved it after giving it a week. Then lost it when I sold my car....it was in the glove box. Enjoy it new owner...enjoy ;(

  • Great story badbatch78

  • good story