Meanderer
Supreme Member
"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."
