'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.
These songs make use, and good-natured fun, of the moon-June-spoon love-song-writing cliches-- for example, getting a rose between the toes from walking barefoot through the hothouse to you, pretty baby. And the taxi-driver-from-Brooklyn dialect adds a humorous, even a touching, dimension.