Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.3.0262 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: Recordings off the radio (KROW, Oakland, CA, May 15, 1952) or TV and from sound recordings. Cover of tape box includes clippings from the January 1957 issue of "Jet" magazine. Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1, Track 1: Recordings of a radio program: commercial for Piron winte; Track 2: "Because of You" (Louis Armstrong); Track 3: advertisement for Louis' performance at the Merced Fairgrounds Pavilion; Track 4: "Basin St. Blues" (Bob Crosby); Track 5: "China Boy" (Jack Teagarden); Track 6: commercial; Track 7: "Wonder Why" (Vaughn Monroe); Track 8: "Too Late Now" (Dinah Shore); Track 9: "In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening" (Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman); Track 10: announcer; Track 11: "Too Young" (Spike Jones); Track 12: commercial for Standard Vacuum; Track 13: "Mixed Emotions" (Rosemary Clooney); Track 14: commercial; "Morning Side of the Mountain" (Arthur Prysock). Track 15: Louis introduces an interview conducted by Don Pitts at the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco: Track 16: Louis talks about playing in New Orleans as a teenager; Joe Oliver; jazz music; his favorite performers; Mardi Gras; origin of the "Satchmo" nickname; future performances. Track 17: Live broadcast of Louis' performance at the Club Hangover in San Francisco: "When it's Sleepy Time Down South", Track 18: "Stompin' at the Savoy", Track 19: "West End Blues"; Track 20: Louis dedicates the next song to Billie Holiday; Track 21: "A Kiss to Build a Dream On"; Track 22: "You're Just In Love"; Track 23: "It Don't Mean a Thing if you Ain't Got That Swing". Disc 2, Track 1: "Prologue: The Carousel Waltz" (from "Carousel);Track 2: "You're a Queer One, Julie Jordan" (from "Carousel) (incomplete). Track 3: Louis speaks with Vernon Black and Stuff Crouch in San Francisco, March 15, 1952, talk about meeting June Clark and enjoying a Sugar Ray Robinson fight. Track 4: Recordings from radio or TV: "We're a Hundred Fighters; Track 5: "Red River Valley", Track 6: commercial; "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise"; Track 7: "The Brooklyn Baseball Cantata", Track 8: "Among My Souvenirs"; Track 9: "Tavern in the Town". Track 10: commercial; Track 11: Recording from radio: "Wandering swallow" (Peggy Lee); Track 12: commercial for Folgers coffee; Track 13: "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Ink Spots with Bobby Hackett); Track 14: "Wheel of Fortune" (Sammy Kaye); Track 15: "Manhattan" (Jimmy Dorsey); Track 16: "Vanity" (Sarah Vaughn); Track 17: commercial for Kapwell's Silver Club; Track 18: "The Touch of Your Lips" (Ziggy Elman, Larry Noble); Track 19: "Basin St. Blues" (Pee Wee Hunt); Track 20: commercial for Robert Hall; Track 21: "Hambone" (Frankie Laine, Jo Stafford); Track 22: "Me and My Shadow" (Rose Murphy); Track 23: "Tell Me Why" (Sammy Kaye). |
People |
Black, Vernon Crosby, Bing Crosby, Bob Crouch, Stuff Dorsey, Jimmy Elman, Ziggy Hall, Robert Holiday, Billie Hunt, Pee Wee Jones, Spike Kaye, Sammy Laine, Frankie Monroe, Vaughn Murphy, Rose Noble, Larry Oliver, King Pitts, Don Prysock, Arthur Shore, Dinah Stafford, Jo Teagarden, Jack Vaughan, Sarah Wyman, Jane |
Search Terms |
Jet (magazine) Louis Armstrong and His All Stars Mardi Gras New Orleans San Francisco |
Year Range from |
1952 |
Year Range to |
1952 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.262 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |