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Catalog Number |
1987.3.0393 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: Recordings of sound recordings (Louis and friends talk in the background). Louis and the All Stars live in Europe. Recordings of sound recordings. Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1, Track 1: ”Cabaret” (Louis Armstrong); Tracks 2-13: Louis and friends talk and play sound recordings (for the complete conversation, see 2003.197.17): Track 2: Completion of ”If I Loved You” (unidentified female vocalist); Track 3: ”Love is Where You Find It” (unidentified female vocalist with piano backing); Track 4: Short conversation; ”So Beats My Heart” (Jones Brothers); Track 5: [Unidentified selection] (Louis has written ”I Love You” in his tape catalog, but that isn’t right) (Jones Brothers) (Louis talks angry in the background, mostly unintelligible; threatens to ”tell him” and ”fight his ass”; mentions the guy coming to Corona and looking like a mountain and ”like Frankenstein”; Track 6: Louis continues complaining about entertainer and dancer Johnny Taylor; Velma mentions that he wouldn’t show his face the previous night; Louis mentions Harlem Globetrotter Tommy Brookins and how everything ”he touched turned to shit” and how it’s the same with Johnny Taylor; Louis says, ”What he don’t fuck up, he’ll steal, God damn it and that’s what he tried to do to me. And one of these days, I’ve got to tell him. I just don’t want to do it now, you know, concentrating on my lip and that shit. I probably, you know what I mean, get in trouble, that’s all. It’s bad enough down there fighting that fucking horn. Here’s a son-of-a-bitch you’re being a friend to him and he hand me that shit. You know I don’t want that shit out of Johnny, man.” One of the Jones brothers says he’ll tell him if he sees him. Velma mentions Taylor trying to ”order dinner on Pops”; Louis continues venting about Johnny Taylor and how he’s done nothing important; Eddie ”Rochester” Anderson bailed him out of jail but Taylor did nothing but harm Anderson; Track 7: Louis plays record, ”And the Angels Sing” (Jones Brothers); continues complaining about Johnny Taylor in the background; Louis wants to say, ”Get out of here!” if he sees him tonight; Louis complains about the motives of his black friends, asking ”Where’s the elevation”; Louis quotes Duke Ellington about the race, ”We ain’t ready, yet.” Track 8: Conversation continues; Louis asks Trummy Young to put his record on but is told they already played it; talk about leaving to make sure they’ll catch the train; Louis is not going to rush because ”I don’t give a fuck if I ever go home”; Louis leaves it up to Doc Pugh; Louis doesn’t want to go home ”all beat”; Pugh tells him to ”name the time”; Louis tells him he’s married now and it’s not necessary for him to stay up; more conversation as Velma worries that Louis is losing time on his tape by continuing to record between songs; Louis calls it ”impromptu”; Clyde Jones starts singing ”You Won’t Be Satisfied”; Track 9: ”Low Down Blues” (unknown singer); Track 10: ”The Man I Love” (Clyde Jones); Louis discusses his index and tape catalog; Track 11 ”Air Mail Special” (Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian); Track 12: ”Rose Room”; (Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian); Track 13: Louis says there’s room for one more record; after some discussion, they pick ”Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” (Louis Armstrong) (incomplete). Tracks 14-17: Recording of Louis Armstrong sound recording, "Ambassador Satch": ”Royal Garden Blues”; Track 15: ”Tin Roof Blues”; Track 16: ”The Faithful Hussar”; Track 17: conversation; ”Muskrat Ramble” (Louis Armstrong and the All Stars); Track 18: introduction to next song (not played). Disc 2, Tracks 1-5: Recording of ”Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy”: ”Beale Street Blues”; Track 2: ”Ole Miss”; Track 3: ”Chantez les Bas”; Track 4: ”Hesitating Blues”; Track 5: ”Atlanta Blues (Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor). Track 6: Recording of Armstrong recording, ”Satchmo the Great”: ”When it’s Sleepy Time Down South”; Track 7: Louis talks with Edward R. Murrow in Paris; Track 8: ”Flee as a Bird/Didn’t He Ramble”; Track 9: ”Mack the Knife”; Track 10: Louis talks about playing for King George V; Track 11: ”Mahogany Hall Stomp”; Track 12: ”All For You”; Track 13: ”Black and Blue”; "Shine" (Louis Armstrong) (incomplete). |
Tape Information |
Reel 93 according to ”Tape Catalog #2, Part 1” (see Manuscripts, 1987.2.23) |
People |
Bigard, Barney Christian, Charlie Deems, Barrett Goodman, Benny Hall, Edmond Jones, Clyde Kyle, Billy Lesberg, Jack Middleton, Velma Murrow, Edward R. Shaw, Arvell Young, Trummy |
Search Terms |
Ambassador Satch (album) Louis Armstrong and His All Stars Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (album) Satchmo the Great (motion picture) |
Year Range from |
1970 |
Year Range to |
1971 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.393 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |