Louis Wishes You a Cool Yule

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The collection debuted in the Top 10 across multiple Billboard charts (dated November 26), including Top Holiday Albums where it bowed at No.

It’s been an amazing honor to work with our colleagues at UMe and the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation team to get Mr. Includes a previously unheard recording of Louis’ touching reading of Samuel Clement Moore’s poem “A Visit from St. His reading of ‘The Night Before Christmas,’ with my New Orleans homeboy, Sullivan Fortner on piano, is a swinging Crescent City Christmas card. Louis Armstrong’s first album of holiday-associated songs is an auspicious aural example of why he was a man for all seasons, singing and playing his Promethean trumpet in the cause of happiness,” said Wynton Marsalis, president of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation (LAEF). The narration is one of two tapes of it recorded by Armstrong and this one is unedited and released for the first time.More than 50 years after his passing, the legendary Louis Armstrong is back on the charts with the release of his first-ever Christmas album, Louis Wishes You A Cool Yule (Verve/UMe).

Nicholas” (also known as “The Night Before Christmas”), with fellow New Orleans jazz icon Sullivan Fortner providing a gorgeous musical underbed. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. on the Billboard 200, becoming Armstrong’s highest charting album since Hello Dolly spent six weeks at No. Also available on red vinyl LP and limited edition vinyl picture disc LP, released November 11, 2022.Just seeing how this holiday record is being embraced is proof positive that LAEF’s archival placement is something to celebrate. Armstrong’s first holiday album out to the world,” added Jamie Krents, President, Verve, Impulse and Verve Forecast Records. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Beloved around the world just like Santa Claus himself, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong devoted his life to “the cause of happiness,” as he once put it, giving the gift of joy every time he put his trumpet to his lips or crooned with his gravel voice.