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Louis Armstrong

Description:

An unusual album in the Louis Armstrong canon, this collection of gospel songs, spirituals, homilies, and comic vignettes was the only religious album this determinedly secular musician recorded. Backed by a gospel vocal group led by the celebrated jazz arranger Sy Oliver, Armstrong performs a variety of religious-themed favorites, including "Ezekiel Saw De Wheel," "Going to Shout All Over God's Heaven," and "Didn't it Rain," as well as "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" from GUYS AND DOLLS. There's an affecting version of the traditional spiritual "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child," and a particular highlight is the inclusion of two comic sermons by the musician's alter ego, Elder Eatmore.

Tracklisting:

1.Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
2.Shadrack
3.Go Down, Moses
4.Rock My Soul
5.Ezekiel Saw The Wheel
6.On My Way
7.Down By The Riverside
8.Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
9.Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
10.Jonah And The Whale
11.Didn't It Rain
12.This Train
13.When Did You Leave Heaven? (ボーナストラック)
14.You're A Heavenly Thing (ボーナストラック)
15.I Married An Angel (ボーナストラック)
16.A Sinner Kissed An Angel (ボーナストラック)
17.Angela Mia (ボーナストラック)
18.Angel Child (ボーナストラック)
19.And The Angels Sing (ボーナストラック)
20.Fools Rush In (ボーナストラック)
21.I'll String Along With You (ボーナストラック)
22.Angel (ボーナストラック)
23.The Prisoner's Song (ボーナストラック)
24.Good Night, Angel (ボーナストラック)
25.Dear Old Southland (ボーナストラック)