Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.3.0268 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: Duplicate of tape 1987.3.267, plus: Bill Green in Louis's den playing records; Ira Gershwin radio interview (KGLO, Mason City Iowa); Louis and Lucille at home. Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1: copy of Tape 1987.3.267. Disc 2, Tracks 1-2: Bill Green talks about Louis' music and how it helped him through a hard time; Track 3: Bill Green tells a story about Louis and Roy Eldridge in cutting contest; Track 4: Bill Green reads a quote by Robert Goffin. Track 5: Louis and Lucille at home: Louis talks about singer, Ann Cook; Louis talks about looking at photographs; Track 6: Louis talks about what he'll do when he retires; Track 7: Lucille talks about a fire at a nearby house; Louis plays a recording by Big Mama Thornton and talks about her; Tracks 8-9: Louis plays "Hound dog" followed by "Bear cat" (selections repeated). Track 10: "For You, For Me, Forever More" (recorded from CBS radio). Track 11: Radio interview with Ira Gershwin: Ira Gershwin talks about his alias of "Arthur Francis"; Track 12: "S'wonderful"; Track 13: "The man I Love" (Eugenie Baird); Track 14: "Who cares/Of thee I sing" (Jimmy Carroll); Track 15: Palmolive shaving cream commercial; Track 16: [unidentified selection] (Earl Reitzen); Track 17: "Bidin' my time" (Eugenie Baird, Earl Reitzen); Track 18: "I've got rhythm" (Alfred Antonini and his orchestra); Track 19: "Embraceable you" (Jimmy Carroll); Track 20: Ira Gershwin talks about writing "Rhapsody in blue"; Track 21: "Rhapsody in blue"; Track 22: Ira Gershwin talks bout George Gershwin's musical training and "Porgy and Bess." |
People |
Armstrong, Lucille Wilson Baird, Eugenie Buckley, Lord Carroll, Jimmy Cook, Ann Eldridge, Roy Gershwin, George Gershwin, Ira Goffin, Robert Green, Bill Reitzen, Earl Thornton, Big Mama |
Search Terms |
Queens |
Year Range from |
1953 |
Year Range to |
1953 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.268 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |