Louis Armstrong : Satch plays Fats
Louis Armstrong : Satch plays Fats
Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars : A Tribute to the Immortal Fats Waller
Louis Armstrong (trumpet, vocals), Velma Middleton (vocals), Trummy Young (trombone), Barney Bigard (clarinet), Billy Kyle (piano), Arvell Shaw (bass), Barrett Deems (drums), Velma Middleton (vocals)
recorded in 1955
Capitol 708
Pure Pleasure Records : LP 180 gram
Brand New and Sealed Record
A1 - Honeysuckle Rose
A2 - Blue Turning Grey Over You
A3 - 'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby
A4 - Squeeze Me
A5 - Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
B1 - All That Meat and No Potatoes
B2 - I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling
B3 - Black and Blue
B4 - Ain't Misbehavin'
In 1955, Louis Armstrong, along with vocalist Velma Middleton, got into the studio to pay tribute to the late Fats Waller. Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller only worked together twice, briefly in 1925 in Erskine Tate's band and four years later in the New York revue Connie's Hot Chocolates. But Waller made an indelible enough impression for Satchmo to record the tribute album Satch Plays Fats: The Music of Fats Waller in 1955 when such ideas were new.
The "golden age" of recordings was from 1955 to 1965, at the beginning of the stereo era, where pure vacuum tube amplification helped produce recordings demonstrating unparalleled fidelity and warmth, lifelike presence and illumination.
This Pure Pleasure LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the original analogue studio tapes through to the cutting head and was pressed with virgin vinyl at Pallas.