Archive Record
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Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.3.0135 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: Recordings of sound recordings from either radio broadcasts or records. Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1, Track 1: Radio music from KWBR-Oakland, CA with disc jockey Pat Henry: "Scuffling" (Sam Donahue Big Band); Track 2: "Gypsy Love Song" (Sam Donahue Big Band); Track 3: "Squatty Roo" (Oscar Peterson); Track 4: announcer talks about selections; Track 5: "Night and Day"(Red Norvo); Track 6: "Song of the Volga Boatmen" (Ray Brown); Track 7: "Swedish Pastries" (Red Norvo); Track 8: announcer talks about selections; Track 9: "The Man I Love" (Artie Shaw); Track 10: "Tenderly" (Rosemary Clooney); Track 11: "I Concentrate on You"; Track 12: announcer talks about selections; commercial for C.A.R.E. charity; "Celia" (Bud Powell) (incomplete). Recordings of sound recordings from Jerry Decker's house in San Francisco: Track 13: "I Can't Get Started" (Bunny Berigan) (Louis can be heard talking in the background); Track 14: "Body and Soul" (Art Tatum Trio); Track 15: "Coquette" (Edmond Hall); Track 16: conversation; Louis asks for another Edmond Hall record with Sid Catlett and Emmett Berry; starts playing Hall's "Downtown Café Boogie" but tape runs out; Track 17: conversation (Decker mentions changing to another band but Louis still asks about Edmond Hall); "High Society" (Edmond Hall); Track 18: "South Rampart Street Parade" (Bob Crosby); Track 19: "I Know That You Know" (Art Tatum Trio); Track 20: conversation (Louis says, "Jesus" after the Tatum record); "Just For the Blues" (Red Norvo, Teddy Wilson, Charlie Shavers); Track 21: "The Blues Jumped a Rabbit" (Jimmie Noone); Disc 2, Track 1: "conversation; "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You" (Louis Armstrong from 1947 "This is Jazz" broadcast); Track 2: Jerry Hecker introduces people in the room (Stuff Crouch, Ed Hernfeld, Lee Hecker, Lucille, Joan, Dotsy, Zee); Track 3: "This is Jazz" 1947 broadcast; Louis talks to Rudi Blesh; "When the Saints Go Marchin' In"; Track 4: "The Skiffle" (Dan Burley); Track 5: "Ory's Creole Trombone"; Track 6: "Singin' the Blues" (Bix Beiderbecke); Track 7: "Jazz Me Blues" (Bix Beiderbecke); Track 8: When Your Lover Has Gone" (Wild Bill Davison); Track 9: "I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None of This Jelly Roll" (Mezz Mezzrow); Track 10: "Clarinet Blues" (Mezz Mezzrow). Recordings of radio music from KWBR-Oakland, CA: Track 11: "Shoutin' Blues" (Count Basie); Track 12: "Hobnail Boogie"(Count Basie); Track 13: "Goodbye" (Benny Goodman); disc jockey Pat Henry closes the program/station ID/weather report; Track 14: opening of "Rise and Shine" program/"Avenue C" (Count Basie); Track 15: "You're My Everything" (Les Brown); Track 16: "Rambo" (Count Basie); Track 17: U. S. Defense Bonds commercial); Track 18: "Robbins Nest" (Count Basie); Track 19: "You Are My Sunshine" (Les Brown); Track 20: announcer; commercial for Betty Elizabeth Shampoo; Track 21: "I've Got the World on a String" (Lena Horne); Track 22: "The Brooklyn Bridge" (Frank Sinatra); Track 23: announcer/ commercial for U. S. Defense Bonds; Track 24: "A Red Seal on a Blue Letter" (Doris Day) (incomplete). |
People |
Armstrong, Lucille Wilson Basie, Count Beiderbecke, Bix Berigan, Bunny Brown, Ray Burley, Dan Clooney, Rosemary Crosby, Bob Crouch, Stuff Davison, Wild Bill Day, Doris Donahue, Sam Hall, Edmond Hecker Lee Hecker, Jerry Hernfeld, Ed Horne, Lena Mezzrow, Mezz Norvo, Red Ory, Kid Peterson, Oscar Powell, Bud Shaw, Artie Sinatra, Frank Tatum, Art |
Year Range from |
1950 |
Year Range to |
1952 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.135 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |