Stardust - Louis Armstrong - The actual best version

That is, the best version in my opinion anyway.

I hope you like it too, if you don't then go back to whatever you were doing (being deaf... probably)

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• Louis Armstrong
• Pops
• Satchmo
• Tribute
• Life In Photgraphs
• Hoagy Carmichael
• Stardust Memories
• Woody Allen Film
• 1927
• Jazz
• Swing
• Easy Listening
• Vocals

[jennie12ish]

Best instrumental I've ever heard of this beautiful melody!!!

[Shabannie]

I enjoyed your video!

---------Ellen

[wasittoyou]

"Pops" plays this to perfection. Nobody else ever even came close....before or since!

[ccorrao]

This is some serious business. He makes the record in '31, some 3 or 4 years after the lyric is penned. He barely sings the melody as written, not to mention his trumpet playing.

A true improviser at the dawn of improvising. Maybe I'm crazy, but these days I'm thinking he just might be the most influential musician that has ever lived.

[neilx49]

@waddsbadds I CAN DIG IT! These are my favorite versions of Stardust, either one by Louis at this session, and Hamp's, the greatest vibe man ever and hell on piano & drums! . Slam Stewart did a job on Hamp's cut, too...

[PINCHUNO]

Sorry, but it's just too fast. It loses all the essences of sadness and melancholy that surrounds this fantastic song.

[paberk1966]

Nat Cole singing Stardust has to be my favorite. I feel both versions are great, like fine whiskey; do ya like it peppery or smooth?

[gck1953]

Hoagey Carmichael composed, first sang. Perhaps not the best, even though it was his own rendition, but Armstrong certainly was the "original".

[ToddCMorgan2]

@Alcitoman Agreed! 100%! The one you're talking about is the main one that appears on most all of the compilations and "Best Of" albums of Louis' that you can buy, the one where he says "Oh, memory, oh, memory..." at the end of his vocal part! Even though this version here is really good too! They're both from the same recording session, in 1931!

[mattthecat77]

I could listen to that man play the trumpet all day.

[Alcitoman]

This isn't the best version, there's a very similar version from around the same time with better syncopation...........in my humble opinion. Still great though.

[jknutbens]

@vontrapped You are right this is a brilliant early version. Hoagy wanted louie to record this tune because he was unsure of it and knew if louie recorded it, he would have a hit SOOOOO true. This is armstrong at his peak physically and creatively. I actually cried when I first heard this rendition just incredible.