| Weather Bird | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Louis Armstrong |
| B-Side: | Dear Old Southland |
| Released: | late 1928 or early 1929 |
| Recorded: | December 5, 1928 |
| Genre: | jazz |
| Label: | Okeh 41454 |
| Url: | https://www.discogs.com/Louis-Armstrong-Weather-Bird-Dear-Old-Southland/release/14448169 |
| Louis Armstrong - Weather Bird / Dear Old Southland (1929, Shellac) | |
| Website: | Discogs |
| Accessdate: | 2020-01-25 |
"Weather Bird" is a musical composition by Joe Oliver.[1] However Thomas Brothers has suggested that it was composed by Louis Armstrong, because Armstrong sent a lead sheet of "Weather Bird Rag" to Washington, D.C. for copyright in April 1923[2] and that, despite its 1923 copyright date, it was composed by Armstrong during his time on the Mississippi river boats.[2]
On December 5, 1928, Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines recorded it as a duet between trumpet and piano.[3] [4] [5] That recording is regarded as the "most famous duet in jazz history".[6] (In fact, it was issued by Okeh Records as Louis Armstrong's "trumpet solo with piano accompaniment by Earl Hines"[7]
The recording by Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.[7]