The Best of Louis Armstrong: The Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Gut Bucket Blues
  2:43
• 2
  My Heart
  2:25
• 3
  (Yes!) I'm in the Barrel
  2:39
• 4
  Come Back, Sweet Papa
  2:29
• 5
  Georgia Grind
  2:34
• 6
  Heebie Jeebies
  2:55
• 7
  Cornet Chop Suey
  2:58
• 8
  Oriental Strut
  3:02
• 9
  You're Next
  3:17
• 10
  Muskrat Ramble
  2:33
• 11
  Don't Forget to Mess Around
  3:04
• 12
  I'm Gonna Gitcha
  2:45
• 13
  Droppin' Shucks
  2:53
• 14
  Who'Sit
  2:46
• 15
  King of the Zulus
  3:06
• 16
  Big Fat Ma and Skinny Pa
  3:01
• 17
  Lonesome Blues
  3:05
• 18
  Sweet Little Papa
  2:46
• 19
  Jazz Lips
  3:02
• 20
  Skid-Dat-De-Dat
  3:05
• 21
  Big Butter and Egg Man
  3:00
• 22
  Sunset Cafe Stomp
  2:46
• 23
  You Made Me Love You
  2:54
• 24
  Irish Black Bottom
  2:40
• CD 2
• 1
  Put 'em Down Blues
  3:15
• 2
  Ory's Creole Trombone
  3:06
• 3
  The Last Time
  3:30
• 4
  Struttin' With Some Barbecue
  3:06
• 5
  Got No Blues
  3:26
• 6
  Once in a While
  3:17
• 7
  I'm Not Rough
  3:04
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Hotter Than That
  3:05
• 9
  Savoy Blues
  3:28
• 10
  He Likes It Slow
  2:44
• 11
  Gambler's Dream
  2:28
• 12
  Sunshine Baby
  2:46
• 13
  Adam and Eve Had the Blues
  3:17
• 14
  Put It Where I Can Get It
  2:57
• 15
  Wash Woman Blues
  2:59
• 16
  I've Stopped My Man
  2:54
• 17
  Cornet Chop Suey (In Eb)
  3:18
• CD 3
• 1
  Willie the Weeper
  3:08
• 2
  Wild Man Blues
  3:12
• 3
  Alligator Crawl
  3:03
• 4
  Potato Head Blues
  2:58
• 5
  Melancholy
  3:03
• 6
  Weary Blues
  3:01
• 7
  Twelfth Street Rag
  3:05
• 8
  Keyhole Blues
  3:29
• 9
  S.O.L. Blues
  2:54
• 10
  Gully Low Blues
  3:17
• 11
  That's When I'll Come Back to You
  2:58
• 12
  Chicago Breakdown
  3:21
• 13
  You're a Real Sweetheart
  3:12
• 14
  Too Busy
  2:57
• 15
  Was It a Dream?
  3:02
• 16
  Last Night I Dreamed You Kissed Me
  3:11
• CD 4
• 1
  Fireworks
  3:11
• 2
  Skip the Gutter
  3:10
• 3
  A Monday Date
  3:14
• 4
  Don't Jive Me
  2:50
• 5
  West End Blues
  3:22
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Sugar Foot Strut
  3:22
• 7
  Two Deuces
  2:59
• 8
  Squeeze Me
  3:25
• 9
  Knee Drops
  3:27
• 10
  No (Papa, No)
  2:54
• 11
  Basin Street Blues
  3:17
• 12
  No One Else but You
  3:24
• 13
  Beau Koo Jack
  3:02
• 14
  Save It, Pretty Mama
  3:17
• 15
  Muggles
  2:53
• 16
  Hear Me Talkin' to Ya
  3:19
• 17
  St. James Infirmary
  3:14
• 18
  Tight Like This
  3:15
  3.0 ★
• 19
  Weather Bird
  2:47
• 20
  I Can't Give You Anything but Love (Common take)
  3:26
• 21
  I Can't Give You Anything but Love (Alternate take)
  3:29
• 22
  Mahogany Hall Stomp
  3:17
• 23
  Knockin' a Jug
  3:16

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Release credits

• Albert Nicholas
  clarinet [22]
• Albert Washington
  tenor saxophone [12]
• Alex Hill
  arranger [13]
• Bill Wilson
  cornet [12]
• Boyd Atkins
  alto saxophone [12], clarinet [12], soprano saxophone [12]
• Butterbeans
  vocal [10]
• Butterbeans and Susie
  vocal [10]
• Charlie Holmes
  alto saxophone [22]
• Clarence Babcock
  spoken vocals [15-16]
• Dave Wilborn
  banjo [12-14], guitar [12-14]
• Don Redman
  alto saxophone [12-14, 16-18], arranger [12, 14], clarinet [12-14, 16-18]
• Earl Hines
  background vocals [8], celesta [11], piano [3.12-16, 4.1-10, 4.12-19], vocal [3, 11]
• Eddie Condon
  banjo [22]
• Eddie Lang
  guitar [23]
• Fred Robinson
  background vocals [8], trombone [1-18]
• George "Pops" Foster
  double bass [22]
• Happy Caldwell
  tenor saxophone [23]
• Hersal Thomas
  piano [11-16]
• Hociel Thomas
  lead vocals [11-16]
• Honoré Dutrey
  trombone [12]
• House of Pain
  remixer [6]
• Hy Clark
  trombone [23-24]
• J.C. Higginbotham
  trombone [22]
• Jack Teagarden
  trombone [23]
• Jimmie Noone
  clarinet [13-16]
• Jimmy Strong
  background vocals [8], clarinet [1-11, 15-18], tenor saxophone [9, 16-18]
• Joe Sullivan
  piano [23]
• Joe Walker
  alto saxophone [12], baritone saxophone [12]
• John Thomas
  trombone [1-11]
• Johnny Dodds
  alto saxophone [4, 11], clarinet [1.1-21, 1.21-24, 2.1-17, 3.1-11]
• Johnny St. Cyr
  banjo [1.1-24, 2.1-8, 2.10-17, 3.1-11], guitar [2.3, 2.9, 3.1, 3.13-16]
• Kaiser Marshall
  drums (drum set) [23]
• Kid Ory
  trombone [2.1-10, 2.17, 1.1-22], vocal [21]
• Lil Hardin Armstrong
  additional [11], piano [2.1-10, 2.17, 1.1-24, 3.1-11], vocal [5, 15]
• Lillie Delk Christian
  lead vocals [13-16]
• Lonnie Johnson
  guitar [2.7-9, 4.22]
• Louis Armstrong
  cornet [2.1-17, 1.1-4, 1.6-24, 3.1-8, 3.10-16], lead vocals [4.11, 4.18, 1.6], slide whistle [14], trumpet [2.2, 3.9, 4.1-19, 4.22-23, 1.5, 1.21], vocal [4.1-3, 4.5-6, 4.8-18, 3.4, 3.8-11, 3.14, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7-8, 1.1, 1.5, 1.11-13, 1.15-17, 1.20-21, 1.23-24]
• Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven
  performer [1, 3], performing orchestra [4]
• Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five
  performer [18]
• Luis Russell
  piano [22]
• Mancy "Peck" Carr
  banjo [1-11, 15-18], guitar [1], vocal [11]
• May Alix
  vocal [21-22]
• Paul Barbarin
  drums (drum set) [22]
• Pete Briggs
  tuba [1-12]
• Rip Bassett
  banjo [12], guitar [12]
• Susie Hawthorne
  vocal [10]
• Teddy Hill
  tenor saxophone [22]
• Tubby Hall
  drums (drum set) [12]
• Warren “Baby” Dodds
  drums (drum set) [1-11]
• Zutty Singleton
  cymbal [1-7, 9], drums (drum set) [10-18]
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Issues

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  The Best of Louis Armstrong: The Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

  4x CD
  2 June 2008