Archive Record
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Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.3.0114 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: Louis and friends tell jokes and stories, and play records. Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1, Track 1: "Granada" (Andres Segovia); Track 2: "Tonadilla" (Andres Segovia); ; Tracks 3-6: [unidentified classical selection in four movements] Track 7: Commercial for Kilpatrick's Bread; Track 8: Recording of radio show, "The Cisco Kid" in "Barbed Wire War," part 1; Track 9: Commercial for Roman Meal Bread; Track 10: part 2 of "The Cisco Kid" in "Barbed Wire War"; Track 11: "Peg O'My Heart"; Track 12: announcer; "When My Baby Smiles at Me" (Ted Lewis) (incomplete); Disc 2, Track 1; "When My Baby Smiles at Me" (Ted Lewis) (conclusion); Track 2: announcer; "April Showers" (Al Jolson); Tracks 3-10: Louis Armstrong conversation with Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson and Leslie Armstrong: Vinson requests an Armstrong recording; Louis talks about them being on his different reels; Louis introduces Leslie Armstrong ("this rich cat") and Vinson; Louis wants Vinson to sing "If We Meet Again," which was written by Horace Gerlach; Louis predicts it will "knock old Horace Gerlach out"; they argue about when it was recorded; Louis mentions Joe Glaser going into Rockwell's office, that's when it was recorded; Track 4: Leslie Armstrong thanks Louis and talks about what a pleasure it is being there; Vinson talks about Louis's reel-to-reel tape recorder (Louis talks about the tapes in the back); Vinson sings "If We Never Meet Again" unaccompanied; Track 5: Doc Pugh enters with flowers; Louis talks about flowers; Louis shows Leslie his tape index; talks about the pictures he's put in throughout the index; he asks about Velma Middleton; Louis mentions Lucille is out shopping; Louis talks about Leslie Caron and "Glory Alley"; talk about Canada; Track 6: talk continues; Louis offers his "lewd" toast; when the others express discomfort about telling dirty jokes, Louis tells them "It's my personal, hobby, man"; Louis makes a joke about this being Reel 69; Vinson tells a joke about a boy from New York and weighing machine; Track 7: Vinson tells joke about man sentenced to death; hilarious laughing ensues; Track 8: Louis tells joke about woman at doctor's office getting examined; microphone gets knocked over; Louis talks about Patterson and Jackson, T-Bone Walker, promoters; Track 9: Louis tells joke about white man who wants to be "colored" so he can get a Cadillac; Leslie tells story about fancy party (joke originally told from Velma); Louis tells story about incident that happened in Hawaii when a white man from Lubbock, Texas told Louis he doesn't like Negroes (Louis talks about the original reel, which can be heard at 1987.3.229); Vinson mentions that he read a letter Louis to Henry Brown; Track 10: Louis tells joke about a black soldier in Italy; they talk about nightclubs and how 52nd Street used to be; Louis talks about bop; tape runs out someone says "Hello, New York"; Track 11: "Christmas Day Calypso"; Track 12: "Too Sweet Calypso"; Track 13: "Whatcha Gonna Do"; Track 14: "I Wish I Was in Peoria" (Lu Watters); Track 15: "Doin' the Hambone" (Lu Watters); Track 16: "Love Nest" (Max Kaminsky, with James P. Johnson and Sid Catlett); Track 17: [unidentified classical selection]; Track 18: "Ballin' the Jack"; Track 19: "Deep River" (Marian Anderson); Track 20: "I Got it Bad and That Ain't Good" (Duke Ellington) (incomplete). |
Notes |
No concrete clues but it seems to follow the earlier sequence of 1953 reels perfectly. Louis also mentions his experience with a racist sailor in Hawaii, which took place in 1952. |
People |
Anderson, Marian Armstrong, Leslie Catlett, Sid Eckstine, Billy Ellington, Duke Gerlach, Horace Johnson, James P. Kaminsky, Max Lewis, Ted Middleton, Velma Pugh, Hazes "Doc" Vinson, Eddie Watters, Lu |
Search Terms |
Hawaii Jokes |
Date |
1953 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.114 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |