Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.3.0252 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: "The Big Show" radio program, 1951; music recorded from the radio; "The Big Show" cont.; music recorded from the radio. Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1, Track 1: Introduction; Track 2: Tallulah Bankhead, Jimmy Durante sketch; Track 3: "Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown" (Jimmy Durante & Eddie Jackson); Track 4: Anacin commercial; Track 5:"Easter time" (Meredith Willson, Don Cornell, Tallulah Bankhead); Track 6: Carmen Miranda, Tallulah Bankhead sketch; Track 7: "Mama, yo Quiera" (Carmen Miranda); Track 8: RCA Victor TV commercial; Track 9: Judy Holiday and Tallulah Bankhead comedy routine about a pleasure trip to Havana; Track 10: Chesterfield commercial (Bob Hope & Bing Crosby); Track 11: station identification; commercials; Track 12: Jackie Miles comedy routine; Track 13: scene from "Anne of 1000 days" (Rex Harrison); Track 14: Joan Davis, George Sanders comedy routine; Track 15: Chesterfield commercial (Bing Crosby & George Sanders); Track 16: "Yesterday" (Evelyn Knight & Herb Jeffries); Track 17: Anacin commercial; Track 18: Groucho Marx, Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Davis sketch; Track 19: "Fight on for Tannenbaum" (Groucho Marx); Track 20: Chicklets commercial; Track 21: closing monologue; Track 22: closing song: entire cast "May the good Lord bless and keep you." Disc 2, Track 1: Radio announcement; Track 2: "I get a kick out of you" (David Rose & Orchestra); Track 3: "My old flame" (Georgia Gibbs); Track 4: "Jalousie" (Alfred Newman & orchestra); Track 5: "Lullaby of the Leaves" (Mary Lou Williams); Track 6: "What'll I do?" (Perry Como); Track 7: announcements; Track 8: "Somebody loves me" (Andre Kostelanitz); Track 9: "Malaguena" (Alfred Newman); Track 10: announcements; Track 11: "Vienna blood" (Erna Sack); Track 12: announcer. Track 13: The Big Show continued: "La valse" composed by Ravel (Paris Conservatory Orchestra); Track 14: scene from "Ann of 1000 days" (Rex Harrison & Lily Palmer); Track 15: sketch "Henry VIII" (Jimmy Durante & Judy Holiday); Track 16: Bankhead reads a letter from a Korean soldier; Track 17: closing monologue; Track 18: closing song (entire cast). Track 19: Music recorded from the radio: KGW Portland station identification; commercials; Track 20: "I'm a shy guy" (Nat King Cole Trio); Track 21: "Ice Man"; Track 22: "Let Me Hear It Again" (Velma Middleton) (incomplete). |
People |
Bankhead, Tallulah Como, Perry Harrison, Rex Newman, Alfred |
Year Range from |
1951 |
Year Range to |
1951 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.252 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |