Home / Music / Sinatra improvised a Hello, Dolly! verse for Louis ArmstrongMusic linernotes album music frank-sinatraSinatra improvised a Hello, Dolly! verse for Louis ArmstrongSinatra recorded Hello, Dolly! on It Might as Well Be Swing and improvised a new second verse paying tribute to Louis Armstrong — whose version had topped the charts earlier in 1964. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesIt Might as Well Be Swing spent 31 weeks on the Billboard 200Frank Sinatra's Ring-a-Ding-Ding! spent 35 weeks on the Billboard 200It Might as Well Be Swing was Sinatra and Basie's second collaboration, not their firstFrank Sinatra's Ring-a-Ding-Ding! was designed to have no balladsRing-a-Ding-Ding! launched Sinatra's Reprise label.ExploreThe John Coltrane Quartet lineup on Ballads"Mountain Jam" fills an entire side of Eat a Peach"CJ3" stretches over 12 minutes on Vida BlueThe Nightfly is Donald Fagen's autobiographical look at a 1950s childhoodPharoah Sanders' Karma is built around a 32-minute centerpiecePrevious Sonny Burke produced Frank Sinatra's It Might as Well Be SwingNext Shara Nova sings on The Blue Hour