"Tommy Dorsey's longtime pianist and arranger Lou Carter created the character of Louie the Singing Cab Driver for crooner Perry Como's eponymous television show, and Louie's Love Songs is a strangely affecting collection of sweet-natured novelty numbers with a palpable ache for days gone by. Carter doesn't sing these songs so much as inhabit them -- backed by swooning string arrangements...."
Lou Carter -- I Got A Rose Between My Toes and Three More Songs
'Louie's Love Songs', composed and sung by Lou Carter, a Golden Crest long-play disc, number CR3010, issued during the mid-1950s.
The songs on this video are--
1) I Caught A Cold In My Heart;
2) April In Peoria;
3) I Got A Rose Between My Toes;
4) If I Had A Nose Full Of Nickels.
"Carter's persona was that of Louie, a taxicab driver, but he had been a musician from childhood, playing piano in his own band at age 12. Later, he became part of Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra; then he joined Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra as pianist, arranger, and member of a vocal trio. And still later, he performed solo and with a group."
Lou Carter -- I Got A Rose Between My Toes and Three More Songs
The songs on this video are--
1) I Caught A Cold In My Heart;
2) April In Peoria;
3) I Got A Rose Between My Toes;
4) If I Had A Nose Full Of Nickels.
"Carter's persona was that of Louie, a taxicab driver, but he had been a musician from childhood, playing piano in his own band at age 12. Later, he became part of Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra; then he joined Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra as pianist, arranger, and member of a vocal trio. And still later, he performed solo and with a group."
