tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323643089904400443.post113045309804736454..comments2024-02-11T03:21:54.973-05:00Comments on The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong: Shoe Shine BoyRicky Riccardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18000638350101809298noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323643089904400443.post-43540088294417345302015-03-23T00:03:18.354-04:002015-03-23T00:03:18.354-04:00Hi, Ricky!
What a beautiful recording of Shoe Shin...Hi, Ricky!<br />What a beautiful recording of Shoe Shine Boy in the 1949 concert is! <br /><br />Louis is extra-sensational (if not extra-terrestrial) with the vocal and playing.<br /><br />Just one point: wasn't Louis himself a shoe-shine boy as he scuttled about as a lad trying to earn a living? Newspapers? Shoe-shining, busking, coal-deliveries? Running errands? Working in the port of N.O?Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03583842088965258993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323643089904400443.post-11470914763084771312015-03-23T00:01:37.062-04:002015-03-23T00:01:37.062-04:00Hi, Ricky!
What a beautiful recording of Shoe Shin...Hi, Ricky!<br />What a beautiful recording of Shoe Shine Boy in the 1949 concert is! <br /><br />Louis is extra-sensational (if not extra-terrestrial) with the vocal and playing.<br /><br />Just one point: wasn't Louis himself a shoe-shine boy as he scuttled about as a lad trying to earn a living? Newspapers? Shoe-shining, busking, coal-deliveries? Running errands? Working in the port of N.O?Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03583842088965258993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323643089904400443.post-73312109444377393432009-09-08T00:40:59.898-04:002009-09-08T00:40:59.898-04:00What a terrific and for me timely post! I have be...What a terrific and for me timely post! I have been intensely researching the great and tragic tap dancer Teddy Hale, who was the boy dancer that Sammy Cahn talked about. Is the boy pictured in the photograph Teddy "Ted Lewis, Jr." Hale? At his peak in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Hale was an important and influential dancer, but after much searching, we have found only one clip ofWissahickon Creek Green Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09951025289881811656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323643089904400443.post-72030183338162317762009-09-05T21:20:45.098-04:002009-09-05T21:20:45.098-04:00what a marvelous gift you've given us! The 19...what a marvelous gift you've given us! The 1949 version has to be one of the finest Louis vocals I've ever heard -- passionate, tender, intense -- Louis in what I call his Gordon Jenkins / That's For Me mode. And that band knows what he's going to do and is so focused and supportive . . . even though Louis has a moment where he improvises simpler lyrics near the end of the vocalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323643089904400443.post-53118028183688845132009-09-03T17:04:49.754-04:002009-09-03T17:04:49.754-04:00Great post (as always). The Fall 1935 Connie's...Great post (as always). The Fall 1935 Connie's show opened on October 29, 1935, with Russell Wooding credited as arranger and conductor. I've never been able to positively connect Wooding to the "Shoe Shine" arrangement, but I haven't seen any other suggestions (Wooding arranged some material for an Ethel Waters session shortly before this, but I can't hear any obvious John Wrigglenoreply@blogger.com