Beautiful Dreamer – 1957

Louis Armstrong

Armstrong plays a Stephen Foster song

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Louis Armstrong recorded a countless number of songs in his career, but never Stephen Foster’s “Beautiful Dreamer.”

He was a favorite of Ed Sullivan’s who featured Armstrong on many of his shows.

Accompanied by an unseen orchestra, Louis Armstrong sings a heartfelt chorus of “Beautiful Dreamer” as a ballad, and then swings it on his trumpet, building up to a high note.

-Scott Yanow

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