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Catalog Number |
1987.3.0398 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: Continuation of 1987.3.396. Louis's appearance on the "Mike Douglas Show" on March 31, 1970 and March 9, 1970. Show about Zutty Singleton. Front of tape box states, "For Louis Armstrong, From Tony Janak." Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1, Tracks 1-4: Recording of the Mike Douglas Show, March 24, 1970, featuring Louis Armstrong (continued from 1987.3.396): Douglas introduces Kevin Wall and Dr. C. Eric Lincoln to talk about big business in the area of black history; Wall was a Vice President of marketing for Coca-Cola; Dr. Lincoln was a consultant to Coca-Cola in relation to their promotion of black history; talk about white and black students being interested in black history; Track 2: talk about Coca-Cola providing a a kit with a series of slides of books about black history; they offer a kit to Louis and call him an institution; Lincoln talks about being a sociologist; talk about textbooks not reflecting black achievements; Track 3: cooking segment with music director Joe Harnell making Italian chili; Track 4: "The Windmills of Your Mind" (Joe Harnell); close of program. Tracks 5-13: Recording of the Mike Douglas Show, March 6, 1970, featuring Louis Armstrong and Pearl Bailey: Pearl Bailey talks with Douglas; Louis surprises her, coming out to sing "Hello, Dolly!"; Track 6: Douglas talks with Bailey and Armstrong; Bailey gives Louis credit for making "Hello, Dolly!" a hit; Louis talks about having hits; Bailey being in show business for 34 years; Armstrong talks about Pearl's brother Bill and seeing him at the Palladium; Armstrong and Bailey give advice to young performers; they both say that you have to love what you're doing; amateur night; Armstrong tells a story about playing "Swing That Music" at the Gibson Theater in Philadelpha and suffering from dry chops, excusing himself to get water; "the average cat would have fainted"; talk about how you can't study heart; two kinds of talent, man-made and God-given; Bailey says Louis is God-given; Louis going to school through "about sixth grade"; being the bugler at the Colored Waif's Home; Bailey going to see Armstrong at the Pearl Theater in Philadelphia; Bailey talks about Louis being an "Ambassador of Goodwill"; Louis saying "This one's for you, Rex" to King George V in England; Louis tells a story about a valet in England announcing visitors and Louis not wanting to go through the protocol; Louis never gets nervous when he meets the Royal Family; "Everybody's a cat to me, anyway"; meeting Princess Margaret and playing "Mahogany Hall Stomp" for her; Track 7: "Bill Bailey" (Pearl Bailey); Track 8: talk; "Blueberry Hill" (Louis Armstrong); "Mack the Knife" (Louis Armstrong); Track 9: Bailey talks about the "simplicity" of Armstrong's showmanship; "Lazy Bones" (Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey and Mike Douglas); Track 10: Douglas talks with Bailey and calls that "Lazy Bones" the greatest thing that had ever happened on his show; Track 11: Douglas talks with Bobby Sherman; Track 12: Douglas talks with Armstrong, Bailey and Sherman; Sherman talks about watching them do "Lazy Bones"; Bailey talks about the reaction of young people to entertainers like herself and Louis; Sherman says he wants a career like them; Armstrong mentions that they didn't have a sheet of music and Joe Harnell leads a "wonderful band"; Track 13: talk; "Hello, Dolly" (Louis Armstrong) (repeated from track 5); Douglas talks with Bailey and Armstrong (repeated from track 6) (incomplete). Disc 2, Tracks 1-31: Episode of George Mercer's "Reel Jazz" in tribute to Zutty Singleton, "Dean of Drummers" (originally broadcast April 20, 1968): "Basin Street Blues"; Track 2: Mercer introduction; Track 3: "Oh, Didn't He Ramble" (Zutty Singleton); Track 4: Mercer talks about Singleton; Track 5: "Frankie and Johnny" (Fate Marable's Society Syncopators); Track 6: Mercer talks about Singleton; Track 7: "Savoyager's Stomp" (Carroll Dickerson); Track 8: "Symphonic Raps" (Carroll Dickerson); Track 9: Mercer talks about Singleton; Track 10: "Sugar Foot Strut" (Louis Armstrong); Track 11: Mercer talks about Singleton; Track 12: "Tight Like This"; Track 13: Mercer talks about Singleton; Track 14: "Muggles"; Track 15: Mercer talks about Singleton; Track 16: "That Thing" (Roy Eldridge); Track 17: Mercer talks about Singleton; Track 18: "Tanktown Bumps" (Jelly Roll Morton); Track 19: Mercer talks about Singleton; Track 20: "Zutty's Hootie Blues" (Pee Wee Russell's Rhythmmakers); Track 21: Mercer talks about Singleton; Track 22: "Lulu's Mood" (Zutty Singleton); Track 23: Mercer talks about Singleton; Track 24: "Deuces Wild" (Pee Wee Russell); Track 25: Mercer talks about Singleton; Track 26: "Grand Boubousse" (Omer Simeon Trio); Track 27: Mercer talks about Singleton; Track 28: "Brush Lightly" (Dick Wellstood); Track 29: Mercer talks about Singleton; Track 30: "Shine" (Zutty Singleton live at Manassas in 1967); Track 31: Mercer closes the show; "Basin Street Blues" (closing theme). |
Tape Information |
Reel 98 according to ”Tape Catalog #2, Part 1” (see Manuscripts, 1987.2.23) |
People |
Bailey, Pearl Douglas, Mike Janak, Tony Mercer, George Sherman, Bob Singleton, Zutty |
Search Terms |
Mike Douglas Show, The (television program) |
Year Range from |
1970 |
Year Range to |
1971 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.398 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |