Louis Armstrong

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What A Wonderful World 00:00 Tools
La vie en rose 00:00 Tools
Mack the Knife 03:21 Tools
A Kiss to Build a Dream On 03:02 Tools
We Have all The Time in the World 03:13 Tools
Summertime 04:59 Tools
Blueberry Hill 02:53 Tools
Hello Dolly 02:26 Tools
Dream a Little Dream of Me 03:09 Tools
When the Saints Go Marching In 00:00 Tools
Basin Street Blues 03:04 Tools
Ain't Misbehavin' 04:01 Tools
Jeepers Creepers 04:40 Tools
Cabaret 02:47 Tools
On The Sunny Side Of The Street 05:51 Tools
Christmas In New Orleans 02:54 Tools
C'est si bon 00:00 Tools
West End Blues 03:20 Tools
When It's Sleepy Time Down South 03:27 Tools
Kiss of Fire 03:08 Tools
Cool Yule 02:57 Tools
When You're Smiling 03:59 Tools
La Vie En Rose - Single Version 00:00 Tools
St. James Infirmary 04:51 Tools
Go Down Moses 03:41 Tools
Mood Indigo 03:58 Tools
Winter Wonderland 03:04 Tools
St. Louis Blues 08:58 Tools
It Takes Two To Tango 02:57 Tools
White Christmas 00:00 Tools
What A Wonderful World - Single Version 02:21 Tools
Georgia On My Mind 03:06 Tools
Hello, Dolly! 00:00 Tools
Moon River 02:59 Tools
Heebie Jeebies 02:56 Tools
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen 00:00 Tools
Muskrat Ramble 00:00 Tools
Lazy River 03:19 Tools
Sittin' In The Sun 00:00 Tools
Mahogany Hall Stomp 00:00 Tools
Gone Fishin' 02:21 Tools
When You Wish Upon A Star 03:45 Tools
Rockin' Chair 04:13 Tools
When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) 00:00 Tools
Black and Blue 04:40 Tools
I Still Get Jealous 02:15 Tools
The Dummy Song 02:21 Tools
I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues 02:22 Tools
They Can’t Take That Away From Me 04:31 Tools
Potato Head Blues 03:03 Tools
Struttin' with Some Barbecue 03:01 Tools
Stardust 03:33 Tools
I Can't Give You Anything but Love 04:20 Tools
Down by the Riverside 03:11 Tools
Tiger Rag 02:43 Tools
Body and Soul 04:42 Tools
That Lucky Old Sun 03:07 Tools
Chloe 00:00 Tools
'Zat You, Santa Claus? 02:50 Tools
Zat You Santa Claus 02:50 Tools
Skokiaan 03:50 Tools
Cheek to Cheek 05:55 Tools
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans 03:01 Tools
Shadrack 02:47 Tools
St Louis Blues 08:58 Tools
High Society 02:14 Tools
Christmas Night In Harlem 02:43 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 03:59 Tools
Savoy Blues 03:13 Tools
All of Me 00:00 Tools
You Rascal You 03:17 Tools
Wild Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Cornet Chop Suey 03:07 Tools
I Get Ideas 00:00 Tools
I'm in the Mood for Love 03:11 Tools
Tight Like This 03:17 Tools
Sugar 03:31 Tools
Makin' Whoopee 03:50 Tools
La Cucaracha 02:41 Tools
That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) 03:06 Tools
I've Got the World on a String 02:48 Tools
When the Saints Go Marchin' In 03:12 Tools
Just One of Those Things 04:06 Tools
Swing That Music 02:49 Tools
Only You 03:11 Tools
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 00:00 Tools
A Kiss To Build A Dream On - Single Version 03:02 Tools
Hotter Than That 00:00 Tools
Don't Get Around Much Anymore 03:32 Tools
Hello Brother 03:31 Tools
Stormy Weather 00:00 Tools
Gut Bucket Blues 00:00 Tools
We Have All The Time in The World - 2003 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? 03:01 Tools
Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) 08:31 Tools
C'est Si Bon (It's So Good) 00:00 Tools
Tin Roof Blues 00:00 Tools
Wonderful World 02:17 Tools
Weather Bird 00:00 Tools
Because of You 03:10 Tools
I Get A Kick Out of You 04:29 Tools
Someday You'll Be Sorry 00:00 Tools
Blue Turning Grey Over You 00:00 Tools
Indiana 00:00 Tools
You're The Top 00:00 Tools
Winter Wonderland - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Let My People Go 02:26 Tools
Azalea 05:02 Tools
That's My Desire 00:00 Tools
A Fine Romance 00:00 Tools
What A Wonderfull World 00:00 Tools
The Gypsy 04:36 Tools
Solitude 00:00 Tools
(When We Are Dancin') I Get Ideas 00:00 Tools
Memories of You 00:00 Tools
My Heart 00:00 Tools
Alligator Crawl 03:03 Tools
New Orleans Function 00:00 Tools
Just a Gigolo 03:21 Tools
Fantastic, That's You 00:00 Tools
Struttin' With Some Barbeque 00:00 Tools
Your Cheatin' Heart 00:00 Tools
Ramona 00:00 Tools
There Must Be A Way 03:08 Tools
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 03:29 Tools
Come Back, Sweet Papa 00:00 Tools
As Time Goes By 00:00 Tools
We Have All The Time In The Wo 00:00 Tools
That Old Feeling 02:47 Tools
I Wonder 03:00 Tools
Muggles 00:00 Tools
Don't Forget to Mess Around 00:00 Tools
Squeeze Me 03:59 Tools
Mame 00:00 Tools
The Home Fire 00:00 Tools
I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby 00:00 Tools
Stompin' at the Savoy 05:07 Tools
Somewhere Over The Rainbow 04:51 Tools
(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue 00:00 Tools
Dear Old Southland 00:00 Tools
Someday 03:38 Tools
Sweethearts on Parade 02:48 Tools
Willie the Weeper 03:11 Tools
Yellow Dog Blues 00:00 Tools
Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo 00:00 Tools
Ory's Creole Trombone 00:00 Tools
Jazz Lips 00:00 Tools
I Love Jazz 00:00 Tools
I Want a Little Girl 02:59 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose 00:00 Tools
When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) - With Intro 00:00 Tools
There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York 00:00 Tools
They Can't Take That Away from Me 00:00 Tools
Some of These Days 03:08 Tools
Beau Koo Jack 00:00 Tools
Royal Garden Blues 00:00 Tools
Let's Fall in Love 00:00 Tools
Skid-Dat-De-Dat 00:00 Tools
New Orleans Stomp 02:44 Tools
Zat You Santa Claus? 02:50 Tools
Big Butter and Egg Man 03:03 Tools
Someday (You'll Be Sorry) 00:00 Tools
Aunt Hagar's Blues 00:00 Tools
Weary Blues 00:00 Tools
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off 00:00 Tools
When Your Lover Has Gone 00:00 Tools
All That Meat and No Potatoes 00:00 Tools
Zat You, Santa Claus? 00:00 Tools
Georgia Grind 02:35 Tools
After You've Gone 00:00 Tools
The Bare Necessities 00:00 Tools
Dream a Little Dream 00:00 Tools
Oriental Strut 00:00 Tools
The Frim Fram Sauce 00:00 Tools
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah 06:00 Tools
I Was Doing All Right 00:00 Tools
Once in a While 00:00 Tools
My One and Only Love 00:00 Tools
'Zat You, Santa Claus? - The Heavy Remix 02:56 Tools
Twelfth Street Rag 00:00 Tools
That Rhythm Man 00:00 Tools
I'm Just A Lucky So And So 00:00 Tools
I Got Rhythm 03:03 Tools
Stars Fell on Alabama 03:19 Tools
April in Paris 06:32 Tools
Can Anyone Explain? 00:00 Tools
It's Been A Long, Long Time 00:00 Tools
Loveless Love 00:00 Tools
A Monday Date 00:00 Tools
Tenderly 00:00 Tools
Panama 04:08 Tools
Back o'town Blues 00:00 Tools
The Sunshine Of Love 00:00 Tools
Hello Dolly! 02:36 Tools
I'm Not Rough 03:06 Tools
Alexander's Ragtime Band 02:35 Tools
Go Down, Moses 03:41 Tools
High Society Calypso 00:00 Tools
Hesitating Blues 00:00 Tools
Perdido Street Blues 03:10 Tools
I'm Gonna Gitcha 00:00 Tools
We Have All The Time In The World - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Beale Street Blues 00:00 Tools
Ole Miss Blues 03:25 Tools
You're Next 00:00 Tools
On the Sunny Side of the Stree 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue, Just You 00:00 Tools
'Zat You, Santa Claus? - Single Version 02:50 Tools
Chicago Breakdown 00:00 Tools
Hellzapoppin' 00:00 Tools
Takes Two to Tango 00:00 Tools
Summer Song 00:00 Tools
King of The Zulus 00:00 Tools
Whistle While You Work 01:57 Tools
Save It, Pretty Mama 00:00 Tools
Back O' Town Blues 00:00 Tools
Star Dust 00:00 Tools
You Go to My Head 06:28 Tools
Sweet Little Papa 00:00 Tools
Big Fat Ma and Skinny Pa 00:00 Tools
April in Portugal 00:00 Tools
Uncle Satchmo's Lullaby 00:00 Tools
That's My Home 03:12 Tools
Yes! I'm In the Barrel 00:00 Tools
Ole Miss 00:00 Tools
In A Mellow Tone 00:00 Tools
Otchi-Tchor-Ni-Ya 00:00 Tools
This Train 02:26 Tools
Everybody's Talkin' (Echoes) 00:00 Tools
On My Way 00:00 Tools
Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me 02:39 Tools
You Made Me Love You 00:00 Tools
Fireworks 00:00 Tools
Sweet Lorraine 00:00 Tools
Skip the Gutter 00:00 Tools
Now You Has Jazz 00:00 Tools
I'm Beginning To See The Light 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Blues 00:00 Tools
Bye and Bye 03:22 Tools
What a Wonderful World (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Baby, It's Cold Outside 00:00 Tools
The Mooche 00:00 Tools
Gully Low Blues 00:00 Tools
Love Is Here to Stay 00:00 Tools
Keyhole Blues 00:00 Tools
Sugar Foot Strut 00:00 Tools
Blues in the Night 00:00 Tools
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans 00:00 Tools
Duke's Place 00:00 Tools
Wolverine Blues 00:00 Tools
Give Me Your Kisses (I'll Give You My Heart) 00:00 Tools
Old Man Mose 00:00 Tools
Blue Again 00:00 Tools
The Last Time 00:00 Tools
Maybe It's Because 00:00 Tools
Under A Blanket Of Blue 00:00 Tools
You Can't Lose a Broken Heart 00:00 Tools
Can't We Be Friends 00:00 Tools
Falling in Love with You 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Got Nobody 00:00 Tools
Autumn in New York 00:00 Tools
I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling 00:00 Tools
Black And Tan Fantasy 00:00 Tools
I Surrender Dear 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Brown 02:30 Tools
S.O.L. Blues 00:00 Tools
My Bucket's Got a Hole In It 00:00 Tools
Got No Blues 00:00 Tools
Melancholy Blues 00:00 Tools
Dippermouth Blues 00:00 Tools
Thanks a Million 00:00 Tools
Irish Black Bottom 00:00 Tools
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) 00:00 Tools
'Bout Time 00:00 Tools
Ain't Misbehaving 00:00 Tools
The Beautiful American 00:00 Tools
Chim Chim Cher-ee 00:00 Tools
Chinatown, My Chinatown 00:00 Tools
Do You Know What It Means To M 00:00 Tools
Everybody Love My Baby 03:41 Tools
Two Deuces 00:00 Tools
I Only Have Eyes For You 00:00 Tools
Put 'em Down Blues 00:00 Tools
Ezekiel Saw De Wheel 00:00 Tools
Droppin' Shucks 00:00 Tools
Ten Feet Off The Ground 00:00 Tools
A Foggy Day 00:00 Tools
Kokomo 02:45 Tools
Pennies from Heaven 03:40 Tools
Sunset Cafe Stomp 00:00 Tools
Chantez Les Bas (Sing 'em Low) 00:00 Tools
Knockin' a Jug 00:00 Tools
The Faithful Hussar 03:08 Tools
When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) - Without Intro 00:00 Tools
Sincerely 00:00 Tools
The Creator Has a Master Plan 00:00 Tools
Don't Jive Me 00:00 Tools
I'm Confessin' (That I Love you) 00:00 Tools
Blues for Yesterday 00:00 Tools
Jonah and the Whale 00:00 Tools
Cotton Tail 00:00 Tools
Keepin' Out of Mischief Now 00:00 Tools
Before Long 00:00 Tools
Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 00:00 Tools
We Shall Overcome 05:43 Tools
Dinah 00:00 Tools
Chimes Blues 20:51 Tools
St James Infirmary 00:00 Tools
Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me) 00:00 Tools
Shine 00:00 Tools
Red Sails in the Sunset 00:00 Tools
Cold, Cold Heart 00:00 Tools
Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train 00:00 Tools
That's When I'll Come Back to You 00:00 Tools
When It's Sleepy Time Down South (Live) 00:00 Tools
There's No You 00:00 Tools
Where the Blues Were Born in New Orleans 00:00 Tools
In the Gloaming 00:00 Tools
Perdido 03:10 Tools
Give Peace A Chance 04:34 Tools
Saint Louis Blues 03:22 Tools
Gone Fishin' (Duet With Bing Crosby) 00:00 Tools
We'll Be Together Again 00:00 Tools
Home 00:00 Tools
Rock My Soul 00:00 Tools
Love Walked In 00:00 Tools
The Nearness of You 05:42 Tools
A Kiss To Build A Dream On - 92 Sleepless In Seattle 00:00 Tools
Top Hat, White Tie and Tails 00:00 Tools
I Double Dare You 00:00 Tools
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 00:00 Tools
Mood Indigo - 1990 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Give Me Your Kisses 00:00 Tools
When Your Smiling 00:00 Tools
Indian Love Call 00:00 Tools
A Woman Is A Sometime Thing 00:00 Tools
Ain't Misbehavin 04:38 Tools
Blues in the South 00:00 Tools
Moonlight in Vermont 00:00 Tools
When You Wish Upon A Star, "Pinocchio" 00:00 Tools
Heigh-Ho (The Dwarf's Marching Song) 00:00 Tools
Knee Drops 00:00 Tools
The Memphis Blues (Or Mister Crump) 02:58 Tools
Medley Of Hits 00:00 Tools
I Want a Big Butter and Egg Man 00:00 Tools
Drop Me Off At Harlem 00:00 Tools
Christmas Night In Harlem - Single Version 00:00 Tools
The Memphis Blues 00:00 Tools
If 00:00 Tools
If i Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) 00:00 Tools
Skokiaan (South African Song) 00:00 Tools
When You're Smiling (The Whole 00:00 Tools
Long Gone (From the Bowlin' Green) 00:00 Tools
Pretty Little Missy 00:00 Tools
A Song Was Born 00:00 Tools
Who' Sit 00:00 Tools
Snake Rag 03:03 Tools
I'll Keep the Lovelight Burning 00:00 Tools
Jelly Roll Blues 00:00 Tools
Tea for Two 00:00 Tools
Dipper Mouth Blues 00:00 Tools
Cheesecake 00:00 Tools
What's New 00:00 Tools
I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me 00:00 Tools
Melancholy 03:05 Tools
Atlanta Blues (Make Me One Pallet On Your Floor) 00:00 Tools
Have You Met Miss Jones? 00:00 Tools
Coal Cart Blues 00:00 Tools
The Ballad Of Davy Crocket 00:00 Tools
Me And Brother Bill 00:00 Tools
Didn't It Rain 00:00 Tools
Walkin' My Baby Back Home 03:10 Tools
No One Else But You 00:00 Tools
Bessie Couldn't Help It 00:00 Tools
(Back Home Again In) Indiana 00:00 Tools
C'est Ci Bon 00:00 Tools
Mack the Knife (Theme from Three Penny Opera) 00:00 Tools
Let's Called Whole Thing Off 00:00 Tools
I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music 00:00 Tools
Amazing Grace 00:00 Tools
Dummy Song 00:00 Tools
Bluberry Hill 00:00 Tools
Hellza Poppin 00:00 Tools
It's Wonderful 00:00 Tools
White Christmas - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Life Is So Peculiar 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing 00:00 Tools
Fifty-Fifty Blues 00:00 Tools
You Are So Beautiful 00:00 Tools
Song Of The Islands 00:00 Tools
Undecided 00:00 Tools
Satchel Mouth Swing 00:00 Tools
The Night Before Christmas 00:00 Tools
Dardanella 02:48 Tools
St. Louis Blues - 1996 Remastered 03:38 Tools
Rhythm Saved the World 00:00 Tools
See See Rider - 1983 Satchmo Version 00:00 Tools
Dallas Blues 00:00 Tools
Shoe Shine Boy 00:00 Tools
Jubilee 00:00 Tools
Marie 00:00 Tools
You Are My Lucky Star 00:00 Tools
Our Love Is Here To Stay (Duet With Ella Fitzgerald) 03:59 Tools
You'll Never Walk Alone 02:51 Tools
My Sweet Hunk O' Trash 00:00 Tools
Blue Moon 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep For Me 04:18 Tools
Atlanta Blues 04:33 Tools
Symphonic Raps 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Blue 00:00 Tools
Sweet Savannah Sue 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams 00:00 Tools
On Treasure Island 00:00 Tools
Margie 00:00 Tools
If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight 00:00 Tools
The Peanut Vendor 00:00 Tools
Canal Street Blues 02:33 Tools
I Believe 00:00 Tools
Down in Honky Tonk Town 00:00 Tools
See See Rider Blues 00:00 Tools
You Can Depend on Me 00:00 Tools
He Likes It Slow 00:00 Tools
I'm Confessin' 00:00 Tools
Alligator Story 00:00 Tools
Learnin' the Blues 00:00 Tools
Lover Come Back To Me 00:00 Tools
How Long Has This Been Going on? 00:00 Tools
Jack-Armstrong Blues 00:00 Tools
Them There Eyes 00:00 Tools
When Its Sleepy Time Down South 00:00 Tools
Hear Me Talkin' To Ya 00:00 Tools
The King of the Zulus 00:00 Tools
How High the Moon 00:00 Tools
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
Sleepy Time Down South 00:00 Tools
I'm Shooting High 00:00 Tools
You Won't Be Satisfied 00:00 Tools
Ev'ntide 00:00 Tools
You Rascal, You 00:00 Tools
Bugle Call Rag 00:00 Tools
My Sweet 00:00 Tools
When I Grow Too Old To Dream 00:00 Tools
Blues 00:00 Tools
If I Could Be with You 00:00 Tools
You're Driving Me Crazy 00:00 Tools
I Guess I'll Get The Papers (And Go Home) 00:00 Tools
Come Back Sweet Papa 00:00 Tools
Snafu 00:00 Tools
Big Butter And Egg Man From The West 00:00 Tools
Blueberry Hill - Single Version 00:00 Tools
I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket 00:00 Tools
Porgy And Bess: Overture 00:00 Tools
Zat You, Santa Claus 00:00 Tools
Save It Pretty Mama 00:00 Tools
You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart) 00:00 Tools
You're Lucky to Me 00:00 Tools
Short But Sweet 00:00 Tools
Kickin' the Gong Around 00:00 Tools
I Won't Dance (feat. Oscar Peterson, Louie Bellson, Ray Brown & Herb Ellis) 02:06 Tools
Our Monday Date 00:00 Tools
That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Brother Bill 00:00 Tools
Lovely Weather We're Having 00:00 Tools
Chloe (Song Of The Swamp) 00:00 Tools
What A Wonderful World (The Orb Remix) 05:33 Tools
Exactly Like You 00:00 Tools
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' 00:00 Tools
He's a Son of the South 00:00 Tools
The Circle of Your Arms 00:00 Tools
A Lot Of Livin' To Do 00:00 Tools
Jack Armstrong Blues 00:00 Tools
The Gipsy 00:00 Tools
Dream a Little Dream of Me - 2001 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
East of the Sun (West of the Moon) 00:00 Tools
Cuban Pete 00:00 Tools
My Monday Date 00:00 Tools
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree 02:20 Tools
I've Got My Fingers Crossed 00:00 Tools
Blue, Turning Grey Over You 00:00 Tools
Lazy Bones 00:00 Tools
Got a Bran' New Suit 00:00 Tools
Summer Time (With Ella Fitzgerald) 04:59 Tools
Fly Me to the Moon 01:20 Tools
It Ain't Necessarily So 00:00 Tools
Dropping Shucks 00:00 Tools
Long Long Journey 00:00 Tools
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 00:00 Tools
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm 00:00 Tools
I'm in the Market for You 00:00 Tools
If We Never Meet Again 00:00 Tools
Public Melody Number One 00:00 Tools
Long Gone 00:00 Tools
Hello Dolly - Hello Dolly 00:00 Tools
Makin' Whoopee - Take 2 / Complete Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Lawd, You Made The Night Too Long 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves 00:00 Tools
Top Hat, White Tie, And Tails 00:00 Tools
I've Got A Pocketful Of Dreams 00:00 Tools
2:19 Blues 00:00 Tools
Our Love Is Here To Stay 00:00 Tools
Santa Claus Blues 00:00 Tools
La Vie en Rose (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
You Can't Lose A Broken Heart - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Only You (And You Alone) 00:00 Tools
Struttin With Some Barbecue 03:01 Tools
Bucket's Got A Hole In It 00:00 Tools
We Have All The Time In The World [From "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"] 00:00 Tools
Let's Do It 00:00 Tools
I Come from a Musical Family 00:00 Tools
I'm a Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas) 00:00 Tools
Be My Life's Companion 00:00 Tools
Lazybones 00:00 Tools
You Turned The Tables On Me - Stereo Version 00:00 Tools
Harlem Stomp 00:00 Tools
Up a Lazy River 00:00 Tools
I Cover the Waterfront 00:00 Tools
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel 00:00 Tools
I Got a Right to Sing the Blues 00:00 Tools
Some Sweet Day 00:00 Tools
Endie 00:00 Tools
I'll never be the same 00:00 Tools
I'll Get Mine Bye and Bye 00:00 Tools
Everybody Loves My Baby 00:00 Tools
Who'sit 00:00 Tools
Spooks 00:00 Tools
Saint James Infirmary 00:00 Tools
So Long Dearie 00:00 Tools
I can't give you anything but love new 00:00 Tools
When The Saints Go Marching In - Single Version 00:00 Tools
I Never Knew 00:00 Tools
Swing, You Cats 00:00 Tools
La Vie En Rose by Louis Armstrong 03:26 Tools
Lyin' to Myself 00:00 Tools
Lover 00:00 Tools
Cold Cold Heart 00:00 Tools
Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me 00:00 Tools
Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way 00:00 Tools
Cornet Shop Suey 00:00 Tools
Drop Me Off in Harlem 00:00 Tools
When the Saints Go Marchin In 00:00 Tools
No Variety Blues 00:00 Tools
Thankful 00:00 Tools
Snowball 00:00 Tools
Moon Song 00:00 Tools
Give Me a Kiss to Build a Dream On 00:00 Tools
Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Gone Fishin' (feat. Bing Crosby) 00:00 Tools
Laughin' Louie 00:00 Tools
You're Blase 00:00 Tools
Dusky Stevedore 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep For Me - Take 4 00:00 Tools
Long, Long Journey 00:00 Tools
Sweet As A Song 00:00 Tools
(YES!) I'm in the Barrel 00:00 Tools
I Guess I'll Get The Papers And Go Home 00:00 Tools
Mississippi Basin 00:00 Tools
The Blues Are Brewin' 00:00 Tools
'Zat You, Santa Claus? (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
The Whiffenpoof Song 00:00 Tools
Love, You Funny Thing 00:00 Tools
Tyree's Blues 00:00 Tools
It's All in the Game 00:00 Tools
Coquette 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing 00:00 Tools
You'll Wish You'd Never Been Born 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Blue - Stereo Version 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - 1990 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
You're a Lucky Guy 00:00 Tools
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 00:00 Tools
Don't Be That Way 00:00 Tools
Volare 00:00 Tools
Going to Shout All over God's Heaven 00:00 Tools
Baby, Your Sleep is Showing 00:00 Tools
On the Alamo 00:00 Tools
Red Nose 00:00 Tools
Jazz Me Blues 00:00 Tools
Some Day You'll Be Sorry 00:00 Tools
My Sweet Hunk O' Trash - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So) 00:00 Tools
That's What the Man Said 00:00 Tools
(What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue? 00:00 Tools
Yes! Yes! My! My! 00:00 Tools
King Porter Stomp 00:00 Tools
St. James Infirmary (Gambler's Blues) 00:00 Tools
St. James' Infirmary 00:00 Tools
Whatta Ya Gonna Do 00:00 Tools
On the Sentimental Side 00:00 Tools
Georgia Bo Bo 00:00 Tools
I Won't Dance 00:00 Tools
Baby, It's Cold Outside (Mulato Beat Remix) 00:00 Tools
Zat You, Santa Claus? (The Heavy Remix) 00:00 Tools
What A Wonderful World (Lyrics) 00:00 Tools
I'll Walk Alone 00:00 Tools
Mack the Knife (Theme From "Three Penny Opera") 00:00 Tools
'Cheesecake' 00:00 Tools
Body & Soul 00:00 Tools
Cool Yule (feat. The Commanders) 00:00 Tools
The Skeleton In The Closet 00:00 Tools
Mighty River 00:00 Tools
Sugar Foot Stomp 00:00 Tools
Baby It's Cold Outside 00:00 Tools
You Don't Learn That in School 00:00 Tools
When the Saints 00:00 Tools
It Takes Time 00:00 Tools
Heah Me Talkin' to Ya? 00:00 Tools
When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) (With Intro) 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Blue - Mono Version 00:00 Tools
La Vie En Rose (06-26-50) 00:00 Tools
Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat 00:00 Tools
Rockin Chair 00:00 Tools
The Song Is Ended 00:00 Tools
The Bucket's Got a Hole in It 00:00 Tools
Louis Armstrong / Moon River 00:00 Tools
I Will Wait for You 00:00 Tools
St. James Infirmary Blues 00:00 Tools
Hustlin' and Bustlin' for Baby 00:00 Tools
They All Laughed 00:00 Tools
Honey, Do! 00:00 Tools
Winter Wonderland (feat. Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
Drop That Sack 00:00 Tools
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder 00:00 Tools
That's for Me 00:00 Tools
There's a Cabin in the Pines 00:00 Tools
Shanghai Shuffle 00:00 Tools
Mexican Swing 00:00 Tools
I Like This Kind Of Party 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You 00:00 Tools
Gone Fishin' - Single Version 00:00 Tools
I'm a Ding Dong Daddy 00:00 Tools
Hey Look Me Over 00:00 Tools
You Are Woman I Am Man 00:00 Tools
C’est Si Bon 00:00 Tools
Can't We Be Friends? 00:00 Tools
Solitude - 1990 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
A Kiss to Build a Dream 00:00 Tools
Riverside Blues 00:00 Tools
When It's Sleepytime Down South 00:00 Tools
I Used to Love You 00:00 Tools
Cain and Abel 00:00 Tools
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Gypsy - Live at Newport Jazz Festival 1956 00:00 Tools
Isn't This A Lovely Day? 00:00 Tools
Big Mama's Back In Town 00:00 Tools
Bess, Oh Where's My Bess? 00:00 Tools
I Wants To Stay Here 00:00 Tools
Oops I Did It Again! 00:00 Tools
2.19 Blues 00:00 Tools
You Turned The Tables On Me - Mono Version 00:00 Tools
Makin Whoopee 00:00 Tools
Back Ole Town Blues 00:00 Tools
Didn't He Ramble 00:00 Tools
No (Papa, No) 00:00 Tools
Sittin' in the Dark 00:00 Tools
No (No, Papa, No) 00:00 Tools
You've Got Me Voodoo'd 03:01 Tools
Baby, It's Cold Outside - Parts 1 & 2 / Live 00:00 Tools
East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) 00:00 Tools
What's New? 00:00 Tools
My Bucket Got a Hole in it 00:00 Tools
Something Tells Me 00:00 Tools
Don't Fence Me In 00:00 Tools
Mood Indigo - 1990 Remaster 00:00 Tools
We Have All The Time In The World - from On Her Majesty's Secret Service 00:00 Tools
The Music Goes Round And Round 00:00 Tools
I Left My heart In San Francisco 00:00 Tools
Dippermouth Blues - Sugar Foot Stomp 00:00 Tools
Naturally 00:00 Tools
St.James Infirmary 00:00 Tools
Yours and Mine 00:00 Tools
Hep Cats' Ball 00:00 Tools
Who Walks In When i Walk Out? 00:00 Tools
My Sweet Hunk O'trash 00:00 Tools
I Wonder Who 00:00 Tools
Sun Showers 00:00 Tools
Louis Armstrong Monologue 00:00 Tools
We Have All The Time in The World (2003 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Hit the road Jack 00:00 Tools
Cocktails For Two 00:00 Tools
No-One Else But You 00:00 Tools
What Is This Thing Called Swing? 00:00 Tools
Who Walks in When i Walk Out 00:00 Tools
Little Joe 00:00 Tools
It Takes Two To Tango - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Kiss to Build a Dream On 00:00 Tools
Go Down Moses (feat. The All Stars & Sy Oliver Choir) 00:00 Tools
Don't Play Me Cheap 00:00 Tools
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You're Just a No Account 00:00 Tools
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In A Mellow Tone - 1990 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
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Adam And Eve Had The Blues 00:00 Tools
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Necessary Evil 00:00 Tools
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Linger in My Arms a Little Longer 00:00 Tools
That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Aroud Heaven All Day) 00:00 Tools
I'll Keep the Lovelight Burning (In My Heart) 00:00 Tools
La Vie en Rose (Single) 00:00 Tools
Poor Old Joe 00:00 Tools
Savoyager's Stomp 00:00 Tools
Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) 00:00 Tools
Russian Lullaby 00:00 Tools
Listen to the Mocking Bird 00:00 Tools
Hit the Road, Jack 00:00 Tools
One Moment Worth Years 00:00 Tools
Shanty Boat On the Mississippi 00:00 Tools
What a Wonderful World (1988 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
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You Rascal You (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) 00:00 Tools
My Walking Stick 00:00 Tools
You're just in love 00:00 Tools
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I Hate to Leave You Now 00:00 Tools
C Jam Blues 00:00 Tools
Cake Walkin' Babies (From Home) 00:00 Tools
Hear Me Talkin' to Ya? 00:00 Tools
When It's Sleepy Time Down South - Alternative Lyric Version 00:00 Tools
Sunshine Baby 00:00 Tools
Boy From New Orleans 00:00 Tools
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Oh When the Saints Go Marching In 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know Until You Told Me 00:00 Tools
No, Papa, No 00:00 Tools
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Trees 00:00 Tools
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I Laughed at Love 00:00 Tools
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Red Cap 00:00 Tools
A Kiss to Build a Dream On (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Rock My Soul (In the Bosom of Abraham) 00:00 Tools
Indian Cradle Song 00:00 Tools
We Have All The Time In The World (From On Her Majesty's Secret Service) 00:00 Tools
Too Busy 00:00 Tools
Don't Fence Me In (with Velmy Middleton) 00:00 Tools
What a Wonderful World(ost Мадагаскар, Мафия 2,Доброе утро, Вьетнам,12 обезьян, HouseM.D. season1) 00:00 Tools
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Gone Fishing 00:00 Tools
Can Anyone Explain 00:00 Tools
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True Confession 00:00 Tools
I'm In The Mood For Love - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Yes Suh! 00:00 Tools
A Kiss To Build A Dream On - Live 00:00 Tools
New Orleans 00:00 Tools
Congratulations to Someone 00:00 Tools
We Have All The Time In The World (from On H 00:00 Tools
Etta James - Summertime 00:00 Tools
Ain’t Misbehavin 00:00 Tools
Chantez les bas 00:00 Tools
'Zat You, Santa Claus? (The Heavy Remix) 00:00 Tools
Confessin' 00:00 Tools
When the Saints Go Machin' In 00:00 Tools
Bess, You Is My Woman Now 00:00 Tools
Joseph 'n' His Brudders 00:00 Tools
Baby Don't You Cry 00:00 Tools
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man 00:00 Tools
Go Down, Moses (Let My People Go) 03:42 Tools
Faith 00:00 Tools
Azalea - 1990 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul - Stereo Version 00:00 Tools
She's the Daughter of a Planter from Havana 00:00 Tools
I've Got a Heart Full of Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Alexander's Rag Time Band 00:00 Tools
Put It Where I Can Get It 00:00 Tools
(When We Are Dancing) I Get Ideas 00:00 Tools
When You Smile (Anto Remix) 00:00 Tools
Somebody Stole My Break 00:00 Tools
Wash Woman Blues 00:00 Tools
Just Gone 00:00 Tools
That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls 00:00 Tools
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Loveless Love (Rehearsal Sequence) 00:00 Tools
The Flat Foot Floogie 00:00 Tools
Hey Lawdy Mama 00:00 Tools
Now You Have Jazz 00:00 Tools
Heebie-Jeebies 00:00 Tools
Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald - Baby, Its's Cold Outside 04:58 Tools
Struttin' With Some Barbecue - 78 rpm Version 00:00 Tools
12th Street Rag 00:00 Tools
Whatta Ya Gonna Do? 00:00 Tools
Cherry 00:00 Tools
Last Night I Dreamed You Kissed Me 00:00 Tools
Louis Armstrong - Let My People Go 03:42 Tools
White Christmas (feat. Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
Ko Ko Mo 00:00 Tools
Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You? 00:00 Tools
The New Tiger Rag 00:00 Tools
Don't you play me cheap 00:00 Tools
Let That Be a Lesson to You 00:00 Tools
Have You Met Miss Jones 00:00 Tools
(Was I to Blame For) Falling in Love with You 00:00 Tools
Gone Fishin 00:00 Tools
I've Stopped My Man 00:00 Tools
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On A Cocoanut Island 00:00 Tools
Old Rockin' Chair 00:00 Tools
The Old Folks at Home 00:00 Tools
When the Saints Go Marching 00:00 Tools
Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo 00:00 Tools
Frankie and Johnny 00:00 Tools
Hesitating Blues (Rehearsal Sequence) 00:00 Tools
You're a Heavenly Thing 00:00 Tools
Panama Rag 00:00 Tools
The Creator Has A Master Plan (Peace) 04:12 Tools
The Dummy Song - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Just Squeeze Me 00:00 Tools
I’m In The Market For You 00:00 Tools
The Ballad of Davy Crockett 00:00 Tools
Interview with Armstrong and Willis Conover - Live at Newport Jazz Festival 1958 00:00 Tools
Summer Time 00:00 Tools
Among My Souvenirs 00:00 Tools
A Sinner Kissed An Angel 00:00 Tools
Froggie Moore 00:00 Tools
Linger in My Arms a Little Longer, Baby 00:00 Tools
That's a Plenty 00:00 Tools
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When It’s Sleepy Time In The Old South 00:00 Tools
WHEN YUO'RE SMILING 00:00 Tools
Sittin' In The Sun - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Tears 00:00 Tools
Long Gone (from Bowlin' Green) 00:00 Tools
Some day 00:00 Tools
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (1990 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
You're the Apple of My Eye 00:00 Tools
So Little Time (So Much To Do) 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul - Mono Version 00:00 Tools
The Trumpet Player's Lament 00:00 Tools
Isn't This a Lovely Day 00:00 Tools
Christmas Night in Harlem (feat. Benny Carter) 00:00 Tools
Mack The Knife - Live At The Hollywood Bowl/1956/Edit 00:00 Tools
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Medley Of Hits: I'll Be Glad When You're Dead/You Rascal 00:00 Tools
East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon) - Mono Version 00:00 Tools
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Hello Dolly - Live 00:00 Tools
Life Of The Party 00:00 Tools
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My Man 00:00 Tools
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We Have All The Time In The World (1992 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
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'zat You Santa Claus? 00:00 Tools
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In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Long, Long Ago 00:00 Tools
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We Have All the Time in the World (feat. The Duke Ellington Orchestra) 03:13 Tools
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I Love You So 00:00 Tools
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Here Me Talkin' to Ya 00:00 Tools
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We Have All the Time in the World (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) 00:00 Tools
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Rose Room 03:27 Tools
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Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 - July 6, 1971) nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an inventive trumpet and cornet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance. With his instantly-recognizable gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also skilled at scat singing (vocalizing using sounds and syllables instead of actual lyrics). Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extends well beyond jazz music, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general. Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over", whose skin-color was secondary to his music in an America that was severely racially divided. He rarely publicly politicized his race, often to the dismay of fellow African-Americans, but took a well-publicized stand for desegregation during the Little Rock Crisis. His artistry and personality allowed him socially acceptable access to the upper echelons of American society that were highly restricted for a black man. Armstrong was born and brought up in New Orleans, a culturally diverse town with a unique musical mix of creole, ragtime, marching bands, and blues. Although from an early age he was able to play music professionally, he didn't travel far from New Orleans until 1922, when he went to Chicago to join his mentor, King Oliver. Oliver's band played primitive jazz, a hotter style of ragtime, with looser rhythms and more improvisation, and Armstrong's role was mostly backing. Slow to promote himself, he was eventually persuaded by his wife Lil Hardin to leave Oliver, and In 1924 he went to New York to join the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra. At the time, there were a few other artists using the rhythmic innovations of the New Orleans style, but none did it with the energy and brilliance of Armstrong, and he quickly became a sensation among New York musicians. Back in Chicago in 1925, he made his first recordings with his own group, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, and these became not only popular hits but also models for the first generation of jazz musicians, trumpeters or otherwise. Other hits followed through the twenties and thirties, as well as troubles: crooked managers, lip injuries, mob entanglements, failed big-band ventures. As jazz styles changed, though, musical purists never lost any respect for him -- although they were sometimes irritated by his hammy onstage persona. Around the late forties, with the help of a good manager, Armstrong's business affairs finally stablilized, and he began to be seen as an elder statesman of American popular entertainment, appearing in Hollywood films, touring Asia and Europe, and dislodging The Beatles from the number-one position with Hello Dolly". Today many people may know him as a singer (a good one), but as Miles Davis said: “You can’t play nothing on modern trumpet that doesn’t come from him." The 62-year-old Armstrong became the oldest act to top the US charts when "Hello Dolly" reached #1 in 1964. Four years later Satchmo also became the oldest artist to record a UK #1, when "What a Wonderful World" hit the top spot. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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