Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.3.0129 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: Louis with friends at the Naraganset Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island. "The Big Show" 11/18/1951. Radio music (WHIM, Providence). Radio music (KFWB). Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1, Track 1: Louis with friends in his hotel room at the Naraganset Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island talking and telling dirty jokes: Dan tells a joke about a patient of his (gets interrupted); Track 2: Louis tells a joke about an old man; Track 3: Dan tells a joke about Oliver Wendell Holms; Track 4: Dan finishes the joke about his patient; Track 5: Dan tells a joke about "Vic"; Track 6: Johnny [Battini?] tells a joke about two Italian men; Track 7: Johnny tries to tell a joke in Italian; Track 8: Louis and Pete in hotel room: Louis talks about recording tapes; Louis talks about visiting a bathhouse in Paris; Track 9: Pete tells a joke about a "colored guy" and a sheep; Track 10: Johnny tells a joke in Italian; Track 11: Dan tells a joke about confession; Track 12: someone tells a joke about a circus; Track 13: Louis says goodbye to his friends and starts playing records; Track 14: "While We're Young" (Peggy Lee); Track 15: Louis says he's going to turn it over to Ernie Anderson; "The Bullfighter song" (Luis Arcaraz & Orchestra). The Big Show (11/18/1951): Track 16: announcer; "Slow Poke"; Track 17: opening of "The Big Show": Track 18: Tallulah Bankhead opening scene with Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Maxine Sullivan, Jack Pearl, Cliff Hall, Molly Goldberg, Yul Brynner, Shirley Booth; Track 19: commercial (Reynolds Aluminum); Track 20: Bankhead introduces Molly Goldberg and Rosalie (her 13 year old daughter); Track 21: Fred Allen joins in; Bankhead introduces Maxine Sullivan; Track 22: "Brown Bird Singing/Loch Lomond"; Track 23: Bankhead introduces Shirley Booth and Martin Blaine; Booth and Blaine perform a scene from "Come Back Little Sheba"; Track 24: commercial (Reynolds Aluminum); Track 25: commercial (Coast Federal Savings); Track 26: Bankhead and Shirley Booth scene; Track 27: parody of "Too Young"; Disc 2, Track 1: ("Too Young" continued from Disc 1; Track 2: commercial (Reynolds Aluminum); Track 3: Bankhead talks with Molly Goldberg and Fred Allen; Bankhead introduces Yul Brynner; Track 4: "Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread" (Yul Brynner); Track 5: Bankhead/Brynner comedy sketch with Molly Goldberg; Track 6: "The Peonie Bush" (Yul Brynner, Bankhead); Track 7: Bankhead/Fred Allen scene; Track 8: "Three Chimes of Silver" (Meredith Wilson & orch.); Track 9: commercials (Coast Federal Savings/Dentyne/Chesterfield Cigarettes/Anacin); Track 10: Bankhead introduces Fred Allen; Fred Allen monologue on vaudeville; Track 11: Fred Allen/Portland Hoffa scene; Track 12: commercial (Chesterfield Cigarettes).Track 13: Radio music (WHIM, Providence): "La Seine" (Jacqueline Françoise); Track 14: commercial (American Gas); Track 15: "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" (Louis); Track 16: commercial (Frigidaire Washers); Track 17: "Turn Back the Hands of Time"; Track 18: commercial (Robert Hall); Track 19: "Just One More Chance"; Track 20: commercial (Robert Hall). Radio music (KFWB): Track 21: "Spot a Song" radio game; Track 22: "Dizzy Fingers" (Percy Faith); Track 23: "Undecided" (Les Brown Band, Ames Brothers); Track 24: "Little Pony" (Count Basie); Track 25: "Jump for Joe" (Stan Kenton); Track 26: sports news. |
People |
Allen, Fred Anderson, Ernie Bankhead, Tallulah Basie, Count Brown, Les Brynner, Yul Faith, Percy Hall, Robert Kenton, Stan Sullivan, Maxine |
Search Terms |
Jokes |
Year Range from |
1951 |
Year Range to |
1954 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.129 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |