This gives me chills every time I hear it.
There's musicians and then there's something else, something more. Words are too limiting. Louis is one of those who are something else.
Well, well, what's this? Louis and Lotte Lenya? Who knew? lot's of people I'm sure but not me! Until today.
Here he is in High Society.
There's a bit in his Wiki about Louis's influence on Bing Crosby and how that went out into the world. Amazing. We have been hearing Louis in everyone's signing for a very long time.
I borrowed the paragraph below from Wikipedia because I think it's important and I had no idea
Crosby ... was important in introducing into the mainstream of popular singing an Afro-American concept of song as a lyrical extension of speech ... His techniques—easing the weight of the breath on the vocal cords, passing into a head voice at a low register, using forward production to aid distinct enunciation, singing on consonants (a practice of black singers), and making discreet use of appoggiaturas, mordents, and slurs to emphasize the text—were emulated by nearly all later popular singers.
