Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.3.0091 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: Recording of "Israel Speaks", selections from the speeches of Abba Eban, narrated by Eleanor Roosevelt. Recordings of sound recordings. Collage on front of tape box features a news clipping about Louis's life from February 27, 1959. Originally cataloged in "Tape Catalog #1" (see Manuscripts, 1987.2.22). Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1, Tracks 1-33: Recording of "Israel Speaks", selections from the speeches of Abba Eban, narrated by Eleanor Roosevelt. Recording of "Porgy and Bess" featuring Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne: Track 34: "A Woman is a Sometimes Thing"; Track 35: "Summertime"; Track 36: "Oh I've Got Plenty of Nothin'"; Track 37: "I Wants to Stay Here"; Track 38: "Bess You is My Woman Now"; Track 39:"The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" (Frank Sinatra) (incomplete). Disc 2, Track 1: "It Ain't Necessarily So"; Track 2: "Street Calls"; Track 3 : "My Man's Gone Now"; Track 4: "Bess Oh Where's My Bess"; Track 5: "There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York". Recordings of Frank Sinatra sound recording, "This is Sinatra, Volume 2": Track 6: "Hey Jealous Lover"; Track 7: "Everybody Loves Somebody"; Track 8: "Something Wonderful Happens in Summer"; Track 9: "Half as Lovely Twice as Nice"; Track 10: "You're Cheatin' Yourself"; Track 11: "You'll Always Be the One I Love"; Track 12: "You Forgot All the Words"; Track 13: "How Little We Know"; Track 14: "Time After Time"; Track 15: "Crazy Love"; Track 16: "Wait For Me"; Track 17: "If You Are But a Dream"; Track 18: "So Long My Love"; Track 19: "It's the Same Old Dream"; Track 20: "I Believe"; Track 21: "Put Your Dreams Away". |
Notes |
1959 tape continued from 1987.3.90. |
People |
Belafonte, Harry Eban, Abba Horne, Lena Roosevelt, Eleanor Sinatra, Frank |
Date |
1959 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.91 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |