Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.3.0208 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: Interview with Louis backstage in Rochester, New York conducted by Bob Trebor, WVET; Louis talking with Joe Bushkin and his wife; recording of a boxing match. Photo on front of tape box of Louis, Mezz Mezzrow, Lucille Armstrong and others visiting someone in the hospital is no longer affixed. Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Track 1: Interview with Louis backstage at the Lowes Theater in Rochester, NY: Temple Theater, Rochester; Sonny Woods; Track 2: early playing; performing for 40 years; first song, "Home Sweet, Home"; Joe Oliver; Bunk Johnson; making enough money to buy the whole [Waif's Home?] band new instruments; Mahogany Hall; Jelly Roll Morton; Alan Lomax recordings; scat singing; leaving New Orleans; Lincoln Gardens; Fletcher Henderson in 1924; Bessie Smith; Track 3: Billie Holiday; Orson Wells Armstrong biography film; fire in Canada; Max Jones; Earl Hines; Track 4: Joe Bushkin joins the interview; buying Louis's records when he was in school; Mrs. Bushkin talks about Joe joining Louis's band; Tallulah Bankhead; Joe talks about his European tour with Jose Ferrer and Ernie Anderson and seeing John Huston in Capri; Track 5: Louis talks about mountain spaghetti; Joe talks about having dinner in Paris; Louis's arrival in Rome; eating spaghetti in an Italian home with murals on the ceiling. Track 6: Interview resumes after the performance: enjoying and playing shows; Velma and the other band members; his admiration for Joe Bushkin; Toronto concert at Massey Hall; Canadian tour; plane travel, elevators and elevator accidents; Track 7: his health; Bisma Rex; Barney Bigard; Joe Oliver; Paul Barbarin; Paradise Café; Sunset Café; gargling; Sonny Greer; Billy Taylor; Wallace Jones; Arvell Shaw; Wingy Manone; Track 8: origin of "Satchmo"; Benny Goodman tour; Pluto Water; tape recordings; Bisma Rex; Track 9: record of parody of an English boxing match (farting contest). Track 10: Radio music: "Big G" (Charlie Ferguson) (talk in the background); Track 11: announcer; "Oh, What You Do to Me" (Patti Page); Track 12: "Tropical Blues" (Reuben Mitchell Group); Track 13: commercial for Parent Teacher's Magazine; Track 14: "April in Portugal" (Vic Damone); Track 15: show closing. |
Notes |
Joe Bushkin was only with the All Stars for the Benny Goodman/Gene Krupa tour of 1953 so this tape was recorded between April 13 and June 2, 1953. |
People |
Anderson, Ernie Armstrong, Lucille Wilson Bankhead, Tallulah Barbarin, Paul Bigard, Barney Bushkin, Joe Damone, Vic Ferrer, Jose Goodman, Benny Greer, Sonny Henderson, Fletcher Hines, Earl Holiday, Billie Huston, John Johnson, Bunk Jones, Max Jones, Wallace Lomax, Alan Manone, Wingy Mezzrow, Mezz Middleton, Velma Morton, Jelly Roll Oliver, King Shaw, Arvell Smith, Bessie Taylor, Billy Trebor, Bob Welles, Orson Woods, Sonny |
Search Terms |
Bisma Rex Canada Colored Waif's Home Diets France Italy New Orleans Paris |
Year Range from |
1953 |
Year Range to |
1953 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.208 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |