That Lucky Old Sun
I used to have a wonderful old record of this tune by Louis Armstrong which I loved to bits (you can hear it here if you’re interested), and it’s actually one of the tunes on a CD my Dad recorded many years ago, but I found this spellbinding version by the great Ray Charles and it’s become my favourite rendition. If you like it half as much as I do, then I like it twice as much as you…
In the Dark 
January 5, 2010 at 6:41 am
Niiice…
I just love Louis’ voice – I wish they could do something different with that Hollywood angel chorus he’s got going on in it.
Ray certainly doesn’t suffer from that!
What a nice counterpoint to the stresses of the budgetary menagerie it must be.
January 5, 2010 at 7:51 am
The awful schmalzy singing accompanying the Louis Armstrong version seems to have been de rigeur on pop records made during the 1940s, but somehow I’ve always loved it despite that. I can’t remember what happened to my old 78 of that version.