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Catalog Number |
1987.3.0068 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: Recordings of sound recordings. Louis reads about Christmas and reads record liner notes from his hotel room (Hotel Knaust) in Sweden. Recording of radio music. Interview with Louis on the radio program, "Strike Up the Band", WPAM, Cleveland, Ohio. Louis. Collages on front and back of tape box contain handwritten messages given to Louis in Stockholm, Sweden, January 1959. Image on back of tape box is no longer affixed. Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1, Tracks 1-12: Recordings of Jonah Jones sound recording "Swingin' on Broadway." Track 1: “Baubles, Bangles and Beads”; Track 2: “The Party’s Over”; Track 3: “You’re So Right For Me”; Track 4: “Just My Luck”; Track 5: “The Surrey With the Fringe on Top”; Track 6: “You’re Just in Love”; Track 7: “Just in Time”; Track 8: “Hey There”; Track 9: “I Could Have Danced All Night”; Track 10: “Whatever Lola Wants” Track 11: “Till There Was You”; Track 12: “Seventy-Six Trombones.” Track 13: ["Trick or Treat"?]; Track 14: ["The Santa Claus Reindeer Express"?]. Track 15: Louis reads about Christmas and reads record liner notes from his hotel room (Hotel Knaust) in Sweden. Recordings of sound recordings: Track 16: "Christmas Bells"; Track 17: "Beale Street Blues"; Track 18: "Tin Roof Blues"; Disc 2, Track 1: "Washington and Lee Swing"; Track 2: "Royal Garden Blues"; Track 3: "The Formula for Love"; Track 4: “The Formula for Love” (sung by composer with introduction for Louis; Frederick Pallandt?); Track 5: “The Formula for Love” (Louis sings along and talks with a woman, probably Nina Pallandt); Track 6: “The Formula for Love” (Louis and Nina Pallandt sing along with record); Recording of radio music: Track 7: "The Hucklebuck" (Louis Armstrong, Velma Middleton); Track 8: "Chloe" (Louis Armstrong); Track 9: "Honeysuckle Rose" (Earl Hines solo); Track 10: "Our Monday Date" (Louis Armstrong); Track 11: "Just You" (Barney Bigard solo); Track 12: "You Can Depend on Me" (Louis Armstrong); Track 13: "That's a Plenty" (Louis Armstrong). Track 14: Interview with Louis on the radio program, "Strike Up the Band", WPAM, Cleveland, Ohio: talk about Gene Norman; where he likes to play; changes in band personnel; Jack Teagarden; Earl Hines; Marty Napoleon; Track 15: "Gone Fishin'" (Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby); Track 16: announcer; talk about Bing Crosby; Track 17: radio program theme song; talk about performances at the Town Casino, and Vogue Terrace near Pittsburgh; Track 18: "Would You Like to Take a Walk" (Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald); Track 19: talk about Ella Fitzgerald; Pearl Bailey; Track 20: "Takes Two to Tango" (Louis Armstrong); Track 21: talk about performing in Canada; Track 22: "Muskrat Ramble" (Louis Armstrong) (live at Symphony Hall); Disc 3, Track 1: conversation; Track 2: "Mop Mop" (Louis Armstrong); Track 3: talk about "Big Sid" Catlett"; close of program. Tracks 4-6: Recording of German radio music: [3 unidentified selections]. Tracks 7-13: Louis and friends, Jones brothers and Fred Berman, talk from his Boston, Massachusetts hotel room: conversation; "Out of This World" (The Jones Brothers); Track 8: "Indiana" (The Jones Brothers); Track 9: "I Cover the Waterfront"; Track 10: [unidentified selection] (The Jones Brothers); Track 11: conversation; [unidentified selection] (The Jones Brothers); Track 12: "Air Mail Special" (The Jones Brothers); Track 13: Unaccompanied trumpet solo by Boston trumpet teacher Fred Berman; Track 14: Louis talks with Fred Berman; Louis tells a joke about "Lickety Split"; Berman tells a joke about a child in school; conversation; they sing, Track 15: "Chain Him Down" (Louis Armstrong, Fred Berman); conversation; Track 16: "Among My Souvenirs/Memories of You" (Jones Brothers); conversation; Tracks 17-18: Berman tells a joke about a teacher and sex (trumpet is heard in background); Track 19: Clyde Jones tells a story about the mountains; Track 20: Louis tells a joke about a boy and his teacher; Track 21: Clyde Jones tells a joke about a preacher; Track 22: "If It's Good Then I Want It" (Louis Armstrong) (incomplete); Disc 4, Track 1: "If it's Good Then I Want It" (Louis Armstrong); Track 2: conversation; "West End Blues" (Louis Armstrong); Track 3: conversation; Track 4: "Can't Get Stuff in Your Cuff" (The Four Vagabonds); Track 5: "After You've Gone" (Louis Armstrong); Track 6: "When You're Smiling" (Louis Armstrong); Track 7: "And the Angels Sing" (The Jones Brothers); Track 8: Radio music (WSRC, Durham, North Carolina): "Hug Me Squeeze Me Kiss Me" (Claudie & Buddy); Track 9: "Say Man" (Willie Mabon); Track 10: "I Need Your Love" (Pee Wee Clayton); Track 11: "Sha Boom" (The Chords); Track 12: "Oh Oh Wha" (Buddy Milton and the Twilighters); Track 13: "Every Day I Have the Blues" (B.B. King); Track 14: "Oh Yes I Know" (The Five Jewels); Track 15: "Oop Shoop" (Shirley Gunther and the Queens); Track 16: "Poison Ivy" (Willie Mabon); Tracks 17-22: Recording of "The Mambo Session" on WSRC, Durham, North Carolina (all songs mambos) "Halleljuah"; Track 18: "Papa Loves Mambo"; Track 19: "Body and Soul"; Tracks 20-21: [two unidentified mambos]; Track 22: "Papa Loves to Mambo" (Peacock & the Mambo); Track 23: "Body and Soul" (Joe Loco); Track 24: "Kismet" (Joe Loco); Disc 5, Track 1: "Cuban Cutie" (Tito Puente); Track 2: "Je Vous Aime Beaucoup" (Nat Cole); Track 3: [unidentified selection]; station identification; Track 4: "The Honeydripper" (Joe Liggins); Track 5: "Soft" (Tiny Bradshaw); Track 6: announcer talks with Earl King; Track 7: "Beet Patch" (Todd Rose); Track 8: announcer; Track 9: "Honey Sipper" (Charles Brown); Track 10: announcer; Track 11: "I'll Upset You Baby" (Lulu Reed); Track 12: "Johnny Ace's Last Letter" (Johnny Fuller); Track 13: "Ain't You Got Me Where You Want Me" (Ella Johnson); Track 14: commercial; Track 15: "Doggone it You Did it" (The Five Keys); Track 16: announcer talks with Earl "Harmonica" King (plays a tune in the studio); Track 17: "Boogie in the Dark" (Johnny Reed and the Boys); Track 18: "Now Listen Baby" (Good Rockin' Sam, and the Kid Kings Combo); Track 19: "No Money" (Johnny Ace); Track 20: "By the Bend of the River" (Charles Brown); Track 21: "Footstomp" (Earl "Harmonica" King); Track 22: announcer plays the harmonica; Track 23: "Two Hearts" (The Charms); Track 24: "You Don't Have to Go" (Jimmy Reed); Track 25: "I'm Just Your Fool" (Ella Johnson); Track 26: "I'm Falling for You" (Earnest "Blues" Campbell); Track 27: "If I Had Any Sense" (Louis Jordan). Disc 6, Track 1: Recording of a Nina & Frederik sound recordings: "Eden Was Like This"; Track 2: "Man Smart, Woman Smarter"; Track 3: "Maladie d'Amour"; Track 4: "Limbo Like Me";; Track 5: "Come Back Liza"; Track 6: "Hold 'em Joe"; Track 7: "Jamaica Farewell"; Track 8: "Happy Days"; Track 9: "Day-O"; Track 10: "Mango Vendor"; Track 11: "Choucounne (Yellow Bird)"]; Track 12: "When Woman Say No She Means Yes"; Track 13: "Min Kompliment, Cherie" (Louis can be heard talking in background); Track 14: "Lad Os Flyve Til En Stjerne" ("Let Us Fly to a Star"); Track 15: "Mary's Boy Child"; Track 16: "Sinner Man"; Track 17: "Je Ne Crois Plus Au Pere Noel"; Track 18: "Mary's Boy Child"; Track 19: "Schlafe, Mein Prinzchen"; Track 20: "The Christmas Evening Star"; Track 21: "Listen to the Ocean"; Track 22: "Triste Vida" (Sing in Spanish)' Track 23: "My Pet Parakeet"; Track 24: "Bury Me Where She Passes Me By" (incomplete). |
Notes |
This is a real mix tape, which according to Armstrong's handwriting on the front of the box, was "Recorded on Satchmo's tape in Sweden," most likely in January 1959. The latest material on it is "The Formula for Love" from January 1959 and the Jonah Jones album was released in 1958. But then the majority of the rest is from the early 1950s, specifically March 1953, when Louis was in Boston, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. But there's also "Sh Boom," which was released in 1954 and recorded by Louis from Durham radio in May 1954. German radio music either April 1954 before Durham or October 1952 before Boston. Like 1987.3.63, it has material from January 1959 but is not in Tape Catalog #1. |
People |
Bailey, Pearl Berman, Fred Bigard, Barney Bradshaw, Tiny Catlett, Sid Cole, Cozy Crosby, Bing Fitzgerald, Ella Hines, Earl Jones, Clyde King, Earl Liggins, Joe Mabon, Willie Middleton, Velma Napoleon, Marty Norman, Gene Puente, Tito Shaw, Arvell Teagarden, Jack Van Pallandt, Frederick Van Pallandt, Nina |
Search Terms |
Formula for Love, The (motion picture) Jokes Louis Armstrong and His All Stars Sweden |
Year Range from |
1952 |
Year Range to |
1959 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.68 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |