CD Charts
Welcome to The CD Charts, here you will find all the latest and top selling Music cds available to buy online. You can search and locate the best selling Music cd's and have them delivered to the door. We have a large selection of Music all with reviews.
Back to Home Page > Go back a page
Music : Louis Armstrong - All-Time Greatest Hits
See Larger Image |
Louis Armstrong - All-Time Greatest Hits by: Louis Armstrong List Price: $13.98 Price: $8.25 You Save: $5.73 (41%)Prices subject to change. |
|
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0008811103224 Label: Mca Manufacturer: Mca Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Mca Release Date: May 10, 1994 Studio: Mca Sales Rank: 6845 Disc 1:
Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
 Rating:  - TimelessI have been hooked on this since I was 14. It transends generations and gets my mojo going in the car! Rating: - fine single CD retrospectiveLouis Armstrong's All Time Greatest Hits is yet another "greatest hits" album to celebrate the musical genius of Louis Armstrong. This album works well as a single CD; but in truth to be much more thorough you'd need two CDs to truly do the job of presenting Louis Armstrong's all time greatest hits. However, they gave it a whirl and it didn't come out too shabby for a single album! Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" from his later years sounds just as fresh and touching as it always has; this number sounds even better in the CD's digital format. "Hello Dolly" features Louis with The All Stars and Louis never misses a beat! He sings this to perfection and the musical arrangement lacks nothing--it's THAT good. The musical ... Read More: Rating: - Iconic worksThis is labeled Louis Armstrong's All-Time Greatest Hits." Most of these are from later in his career, so one might raise some issues with that title, given his earlier corpus of work. Nonetheless, the works here are terrific in their own right. A sampling: "What a Wonderful World": Armstrong well displays his "lived in" voice. Maybe not a large vocal range, but an interesting and compelling interpreter of this song. There is a good backing group (as throughout this CD). His inimitable voice adds a unique twist to this song. The end result is an evocative piece, capturing the song's soul nicely. "Hello Dolly": Not exactly like Carol Channing's iconic version! However, he makes the song his own as ... Read More: Rating: - Louis Armstrong Was The Epitome Of Jazz And Always Will BeThe above caption comes from the seven pages of wonderful liner notes written by Will Friedwald, the author of Jazz Singing, and is attributed to the great Duke Ellington. Who, it is safe to say, knew what he was talking about when it came to Jazz. Interspersed with the notes are a few more photographs of Louis and several LP/45/78 reproductions. A discography of the contents completes the package, although chart performances are not recorded. Louis, of course, was selling thousands upon thousands of records long before there were charts, and after the advent of the Most-Played Juke Box Race Records charts [now R&B charts) in the mid-1940s, he had hits with I Wonder (#5 in 1945) and The Frim Fram Sauce (# 4 in 1946 in ... Read More: Rating:  - The popular tracksMany greatest hits compilations by current bands are worthwhile because they owed their success to radio and their best work was released to radio. "Greatest hits" does not always equate with "best of" and this compilation is an excellent example of that. Many of these songs I truly enjoy. Do many songs better than "What A Wonderful World" exist? The man owns "Hello Dolly" and "Mack the Knife," and "La Vie en Rose" is a timeless, beautiful song. However, it is difficult to fathom songs such as "Skokiaan," "The Dummy Song" and "Chloe" were ever hits. They aren't especially good songs and I assume MCA included them because they lacked rights to better material. I agree with the reviewers, who have directed readers to other Satchmo releases. In addition ... Read More: |
|