Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.3.0477 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: Recordings of sound recordings. The Big Show #40, FKI Los Angeles (12/23/1951). The Phil Harris radio program. Photos on front and back of tape box are no longer affixed. Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1, Track 1: Recording of sound recordings: ”Lou-Easy-An-I-A” (Brother Bones with Joe Darensbourg). Track 2: Louis introduces ”The Big Show”; mentions Lucille eating breakfast in the room with him; Track 3: opening of “The Big Show,” as broadcast on December 23, 1951; Track 4: Tallulah Bankhead monologue; Track 5: commercial (Reynolds Aluminum Foil); Track 6: Tallulah Bankhead segment with Milton Berle; Robert Merrill; Ozzie & Harriet; Margaret Truman; Meredith Wilson and Alec Templeton; Track 7: ”Jing a Ling” (Meredith Wilson); Track 8: Bankhead and Margaret Truman talk; Track 9: commercial (Reynolds Aluminum Foil); Track 10: dramatic reading of ”The Christmas Present” (Tallulah Bankhead, Milton Berle); Track 11: commercial (Reynolds Aluminum Foil); Track 12: Bankhead/Berle, Truman segment; Track 13: ”Ain’t She Sweet” (Alec Templeton); Track 14: commercial (Dentyne gum); Track 15: Bankhead/Berle/Truman/Merrill/Templeton/Ozzie & Harriet segment; Track 16: commercial (Chesterfield Cigarettes) (Bing Crosby, Bob Hope); Track 17: Christmas song medley (all); Track 18: closing of show. Track 19: Louis comments on the show. Track 20: ”Lo-Easy-An-I-A” (Brother Bones with Joe Darensbourg); Track 21: Louis dedicates the song to Phil Harris and ”His boy Remley” (Frank Remley); ”Me and My Shadow” (Brother Bones, Joe Darensbourg). Track 22: Louis introduces the Phil Harris, Alice Faye radio show: Phil Harris/Alice Faye comedy routine; Track 23: ”Jingle Bells” (Phil Harris); Disc 2, Track 1: ”Jingle Bells” (Phil Harris). Track 2: Lucille reads an article from the December 16, 1951 New York Daily News about Tallulah Bankhead; article by Jess Stearn (17 minutes in to this 21-minute track, the article mentions Bankhead’s fondness of Louis, Sidney Bechet and Joe Bushkin); Track 3: Louis thanks Lucille and says he wanted to put that on tape for “his files”; says it was sent by Fred and Rula Ware in Corona; Track 4: ”Glory Alley” (Louis); Track 5: ”A Most Unusual Day” (Louis); Track 6: Louis comments and mentions that Lucille filled in the spaces in the records where Gilbert Roland spoke in the film; Louis introduces next song by Kay Brown; says she married “that fine trumpet man, Maynard Ferguson”; Track 7: ”A Kiss to Build a Dream On” (Kay Brown). Track 8: The Big Show, #40 (12/23/1951): ”White Christmas”; Track 9: ”The Lord’s Prayer”; Track 10: “O Leave your Sheep” (Margaret Truman); Track 11: commercial (Coast Federal Savings/Western Union); Track 12: Bankhead introduces Ozzie & Harriet; Ozzie & Harriet segment with Bankhead; Track 13: Bankhead introduces Robert Merrill; Track 14: ”The Credo” (Robert Merrill); Track 15: commercial (Western Union); Track 16: Bankhead/Berle/Truman/Merrill segment; Track 17: ”Whistle a Happy Tune” (Robert Merrill, Margaret Truman); Track 18: commercial (Western Union); Track 19: Bankhead/Berle/Wilson/ Ozzie & Harriet segment; Track 20: ”I See the Moon” (Ozzie & Harriet); Track 21: commercial (Coast Federal Savings/Anacin); Track 22: Bankhead introduces Alec Templeton; Track 23: Templeton comedy routine; ”Jingle Bells”, ”Brandenburg Concerto”. |
People |
Armstrong, Lucille Wilson Bankhead, Tallulah Berle, Milton Bones, Brother Brown, Kay Darensbourg, Joe Faye, Alice Harris, Phil Merrill, Robert Nelson, Harriet Nelson, Ozzie |
Year Range from |
1951 |
Year Range to |
1954 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.477 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |