Shine

Sometimes, a tune's so good I get goosebumps. Not figuratively. Literally.

Right now, my skin's reacting to Shine (Cecil Mack, Lew Brown, and Ford Dabney), on Louie, Louie, by Chris Daniels and the Kings.

The whole album's a tribute to Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan, and Louis Prima.

Louis Prima wrote tunes like Benny Goodman's Sing, Sing, Sing. You'd recognize his voice and singing style from Walt Disney's "The Jungle Book." He's King Louie, the orangutan. Louis Jordan asked, "Is you is or is you ain't my baby?"

And then there's Shine. Shine is pure Louis Armstrong.

Louie, Louie is an album with no bad cuts, but Shine truly does.