Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.3.0218 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: Recordings of sound recordings. Recording of radio music (KWJJ, Portland, Oregon). Louis, Lucille, and friends read articles from Jet magazine during their visit to the Morgan home (Cab Co. owner) in Portland, Oregon. Recordings of radio music. Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1, Track 1: Recordings of sound recordings: "Perdido" (Jazz at the Philharmonic) (incomplete); Tracks 2-3: [2 unidentified classical piano selections]; Track 4: ["You Bring Me Nothing but the Blues"?]; Track 5: "It Had to be You"; Track 6: "Waltz No. 7 in C Sharp Minor, Op. 64,2) (Frederic Chopin); Track 7: "Oh Come All Ye Faithful"; Track 8: "Oh Holy Night"; Track 9: [unidentified selection]; Track 10: "This Train" (Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight); Track 11: "When I Come to the End of My Journey" (Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight) Track 12: Recording of radio music (KWJJ, Portland, Oregon): "Please Mister Sun" (Tommy Edwards); Track 13: announcer; commercial; announcer; Track 14: "River in the Moonlight" (Freddy Martin and the Fontane Sisters); Track 15: [unidentified fragment]. Track 16: Louis, Lucille and friends read excerpts from Jet magazine: Louis and Lucille trade jibes about weight; friend Benny Hamilton (owner and manager of the Apollo Cab Co., Portland, Oregon) reads from Jet magazine; beans and beer; Louis reads a story about the Frank L. Jenkins Family Band; Herb Jeffries; Cab Calloway; Billy Davies; Willie Smith; inter-racial relations; "Negro ness"; black identity; "Negro" singers who refuse to pass for white; Track 17: Stepin Fetchit; film, "Just a Bend Around the River"; Cadillac cars; Louis comments on Stepin Fetchit; Louis mentions the Roma New Orleans Jazz Band where black and white musicians played together; Track 18: reading from Look magazine about teenagers in Paris; Mezz Mezzrow being a big attraction in France; Louis translates French; Track 19: Josephine Baker and her vanity French Colonialism and race relations; ability and talent; Edith Sampson (article); France; representation; St. Louis; exploitation; Track 20: Eleanor Roosevelt and race prejudice; "Glory Alley"; Lucille's $10,000 mink coat; Louis's humorous "hot mink," clip; Track 21: reading of article: "Sex Habits of Negro Women"; Kinsey Report; Disc 2, Track 1: [unidentified selection]; Track 2: continuation of reading of article, "Sex Habits of Negro Women"; Track 3: Benny Hamilton says goodbye; Louis talks with La Rue; they read a story about Sugar Ray Robinson; Louis tells a story about "Jersey" Joe Walcott; Track 4: Louis tells a story about losing money in a craps game with his drummer James "Coatsville" Harris; Joe Oliver comparison with Joe Louis; Bunk Johnson; Track 5: Louis reads a story about a Texas A &M football game; Track 6: Louis tells a story about an incident on the set of the film, "Glory Alley" (racial). Track 7: Recording of radio music: "Just One More Chance" (Ralph Flanagan); Track 8: announcer; "I Can't Help It" (Bob Eberly, Les Baxter); Track 9: "Blue Moon" (Les Brown); Track 10: announcer; "Down the Old Ox Road" (Gordon McRae); Track 11: announcer; "I Only Have Eyes for You"; Track 12: announcer. Track 13: Recordings of sound recording made at Doctor Chapman's home in Lubbock, Texas: [unidentified solo classical piano selection]; Track 14: "Go West Young Man" (Bing Crosby); Tracks 15-17: [3 unidentified solo classical piano selections]; Track 18:"On This Christmas Eve" (Mills Brothers); Track 19: "My Christmas Song for You" (Mills Brothers); Track 20: "Abraham" (Bing Crosby); Track 21: "White Christmas"; Track 22: Louis closes the tape. |
People |
Armstrong, Lucille Wilson Baxter, Les Calloway, Cab Crosby, Bing Eberly, Bob Fetchit, Stepin Flanagan, Ralph Hamilton, Benny Harris, James "Coatsville" Jeffries, Herb Johnson, Bunk Louis, Joe McRae, Gordon Mezzrow, Mezz Oliver, King Robinson, Sugar Ray Smith, Willie Tharpe, Sister Rosetta Walcott, Jersey Joe |
Search Terms |
France Glory Alley (motion picture) Italy Jet (magazine) |
Year Range from |
1952 |
Year Range to |
1952 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.218 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |