On My Way (Louis Armstrong song)

"On My Way"
"On My Way"
Single by Louis Armstrong
from the album Louis and the Good Book
Released	1959
Recorded	1958
Genre	Jazz

Released1959

Recorded1958

GenreJazz

"On My Way" is a Louis Armstrong song that appeared on the album Louis and the Good Book in 1958 and was issued with "I'll String Along with You" as a single in 1959.^[1] It features a solo section with Louis and Trummy Young.^[2]

A variant of "I'm on My Way", Armstrong's version starts with "On My Way" or "I'm on My Way" (or similar phrases in various versions) and then goes into a chorus "On my way now, got on my traveling shoes...".

The song is no relation to "Oh, Lawd, I'm on My Way!", a song sung by Ella Fitzgerald the previous year (1957) on the Porgy and Bess album by Fitzgerald and Armstrong. That song begins: "Porgy and all, I'm on my way to a heav'nly lan'".^[3]

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Discography Filmography
Top Ten singles	"Muskrat Ramble" (1926) "Hotter Than That" "West End Blues" (1928) "Ain't Misbehavin'" (1929) "Chinatown, My Chinatown" (1932) "You Can Depend on Me" "All of Me" "Love, You Funny Thing" "Sweethearts on Parade" "Body and Soul" (1932) "Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train" (1933) "I'm in the Mood for Love/You Are My Lucky Star" (1935) "Public Melody Number One" (1937) "When the Saints Go Marching In" (1939) "You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)" (1946) "When We Are Dancing" (1951) "What a Wonderful World" (1968)
Albums	Satchmo at Pasadena (1951) Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (1955) Louis Armstrong at the Crescendo, Vol. 1 (1955) Satch Plays Fats (1955) Louis and the Angels (1957) Louis and the Good Book (1958) Satchmo In Style (1959) Hello, Dolly! (1964) Struttin' (1996)
With Ella Fitzgerald	Armstrong-Fitzgerald history Ella and Louis (1956) Ella and Louis Again (1957) Porgy and Bess (1959) The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve
Other collaborations	Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson (1957) Bing & Satchmo (1960) The Great Summit (1961) The Real Ambassadors (1961)
Songs	"Willie the Weeper" "West End Blues" (1928) "Ain't Misbehavin'" "When the Saints Go Marching In" "Mack the Knife" (1956) "Autumn in New York" "On My Way" (1959) "Uncle Satchmo's Lullaby" (1959) "Hello, Dolly!" (1964) "What a Wonderful World" (1967) "We Have All the Time in the World" (1969) "Alexander's Ragtime Band" "April in Paris" "Back Home Again in Indiana" "Basin Street Blues" "Big Butter and Egg Man" "Blue Turning Grey Over You" "Blueberry Hill" "C'est si bon" "Can't We Be Friends?" "Cheek to Cheek" "Cold, Cold Heart" "Cool Yule" "Dippermouth Blues" "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?" "Dream a Little Dream of Me" "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" "El Choclo" "Everybody Loves My Baby" "Frankie and Johnny" "Georgia on My Mind" "Get Together" "Gone Fishin'" "The Gypsy in My Soul" "Heebie Jeebies" "Hello, Dolly!" "Hey Lawdy Mama" "High Society Calypso" "I Get Ideas" "I Wonder" "I've Got the World on a String" "It's Been a Long, Long Time" "Jeepers Creepers" "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" "(Up A) Lazy River" "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" "Moon River" "Moonlight in Vermont" "Muggles" "Muskrat Ramble" "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" "Now You Has Jazz" "On a Little Bamboo Bridge" "On My Way" "On the Sunny Side of the Street" "Pennies from Heaven" "Potato Head Blues" "Red Sails in the Sunset" "Rockin' Chair" "Saint Louis Blues" "Shine" "Skokiaan" "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" "St. James Infirmary Blues" "Standing on the Corner (Blue Yodel No. 9)" "Stardust" "Stars Fell on Alabama" "Takes Two to Tango" "That Lucky Old Sun" "That's My Desire" "There Must Be Somebody Else" "They All Laughed" "Uncle Satchmo's Lullaby" "La Vie en rose" "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" "When You Wish Upon a Star" "When You're Smiling" "Willow Weep for Me" "Winter Wonderland" "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah"
Related	Louis Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven Sessions (1925–1928) Louis Armstrong House Louis Armstrong Stadium Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport Satchmo the Great A Wonderful World
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"On My Way"
Single by Louis Armstrong
from the album Louis and the Good Book
Released	1959
Recorded	1958
Genre	Jazz

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