[2018-04-13] Louis Armstrong "Pops Is Tops: The Verve Studio Albums" 4CD box set (Verve)

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14195

Description
This 4CD set includes I’ve Got the World on a String, Louis Under the Stars, Louis Armstrong meets Oscar Peterson with bonus tracks for each. Additionally, digital album, A Day With Satchmo, will be available on physical format for the first time. These three Louis Armstrong albums & much more, all recorded during an extraordinary few days in August & October 1957, resulting in some of Pops’ best material, a legendary artist on a legendary label.

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. When Your Love Has Gone (Einar A. Swan)
2. You're the Top (Cole Porter)
3. You Turned the Tables on Me (Louis Alter - Sydney Mitchell)
4. Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Duke Ellington - Bob Russell)
5. Little Girl Blue (Richard Rodgers - Lorenz Hart)
6. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen (Traditional)
7. We'll Be Together Again (Frankie Laine - Carl Fischer)
8. I've Got the World on a String (Harold Arlen - Ted Koehler)
9. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me (Duke Ellington - Bob Russell)
10. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (Harold Arlen - Ted Koehler)
11. You Turned the Tables on Me stereo master take
12. Little Girl Blue stereo master take
13. You Turned the Tables on Me alternate take (1) w/false start
14. You Turned the Tables on Me partial alternate take (3)
15. You Turned The Tables On Me inserts & rehearsal
16. I've Got the World on a String false start/alternate take (2)
17. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues false start/breakdown takes (2 & 3)
18. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues alternate take (4)

[CD2]
1. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails (Irving Berlin)
2. Have You Met Miss Jones? (Richard Rodgers - Lorenz Hart)
3. I Only Have Eyes For You (Harry Warren - Al Dubin)
4. Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen - Ted Koehler)
5. Home (When Shadows Fall) (Harry Clarkson - Geoffrey Clarkson
6. East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) (Brooks Bowman)
7. You're Blasé (Ord Hamilton - Bruce Sievier)
8. Body and Soul (Johnny Green - Edward Heyman
9. East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) stereo master take
10. Body And Soul stereo master take
11. Stormy Weather breakdown/alternate take (2)
12. Stormy Weather alternate take (3)
13. Stormy Weather breakdown (4)
14. Stormy Weather breakdown, insert take (5)

[CD3]
1. That Old Feeling (Lew Brown - Sammy Fain)
2. Let's Fall in Love (Harold Arlen - Ted Koehler)
3. I'll Never Be the Same (Matty Malneck - Frank Signorelli
4. Blues in the Night (Harold Arlen - Johnny Mercer)
5. How Long Has This Been Going On? (George and Ira Gershwin)
6. I Was Doing All Right (George and Ira Gershwin)
7. What's New? (Bob Haggart - Johnny Burke)
8. Moon Song (Arthur Johnston - Sam Coslow)
9. Just One of Those Things (Cole Porter)
10. There's No You (Hal Hopper - Tom Adair)
11. You Go to My Head (J. Fred Coots - Haven Gillespie)
12. Sweet Lorraine (Cliff Burwell - Mitchell Parish)
13. Blues in the Night rehearsal (1)
14. Let's Fall In Love alternate take (1)
15. Let's Fall In Love alternate take (2)

[CD4]
1. Makin' Whoopee breakdown
2. Makin' Whoopee alternate take (1)
3. Makin' Whoopee alternate take (2)
4. Makin' Whoopee breakdown (3)
5. Makin' Whoopee master take (4)(Gus Kahn - Walter Donaldson)
6. I Get a Kick Out of You
7. I Get a Kick Out of You breakdown and studio chatter (3)
8. I Get a Kick Out of You alternate take (4)
9. I Get a Kick Out of You breakdown (5)
10. I Get a Kick Out of You false start (6)
11. I Get a Kick Out of You false start (7)
12. I Get a Kick Out of You master take (8)
13. I Get a Kick Out of You breakdowns and false starts (9 - 12)
14. I Get a Kick Out of You alternate take (13) (Cole Porter)
15. Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) breakdowns (1 and 2)
16. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) alternate take (3)
17. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) master take (4) (Cole Porter)
18. Willow Weep for Me false start (1)
19. Willow Weep for Me alternate take (2)
20. Willow Weep for Me breakdown and false start (3)
21. Willow Weep For Me alternate take (4)
22. Willow Weep for Me false start (5)
23. Willow Weep for Me breakdown (6)
24. Willow Weep For Me master take (7) (Ann Ronnell)

Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076VFJSQR/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon Canada
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B076VFJSQR/?tag=imwanca-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B076VFJSQR/?tag=imwan-21

Jason Michael · 30 May 2012

This is a nice looking set. Amazon.ca shows this as being released January 12, but I figure your date of February16 is correct.

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14195

Bump: This has been pushed back to April 13th.

[2018-04-13] Louis Armstrong "Pops Is Tops: The Verve Studio Albums" 4CD box set (Verve)

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