Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.3.0204 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: Louis and the All Stars live on the Horace Heidt radio show; recording of a novelty sound recording; live recording of an unidentified band (from disc); "See it Now" television program with Edward R. Murrow and Louis Armstrong; Perry Como televison program. Photo on front of tape box shows Louis, Lucille Armstrong and "Big Time Crip." Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1, Track 1: Louis and the All Stars live on the Horace Heidt NBC TV program: "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" (Louis Armstrong); Track 2: announcer; Track 3: "That's My Weakness Now" (Faye Emerson); Track 4: announcer; Louis and Horace talk; contest between "sweet" and "hot" music between Louis and saxophonist Tony Johnson trading solos on "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise" before a concluding version of "Muskrat Ramble"; Track 5: commercial. Track 6: Recording of a novelty sound recording: "Yardley's Apeshit" (parody of a news report); "Apeshit Auctioneer". Recording of an unidentified band's sound recording: Tracks 7-24: Recordings of an unidentified smallish big band (with prominent clarinet) with a female vocalist (some recordings are live, some might be rehearsals; not commercial recordings):Track 7: [unidentified selection]; Track 8: "Autumn in New York"; Track 9: "Anything Goes"; Track 10: "Manhattan"; Track 11: "All the Things You Are"; Track 12: "The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else"; Track 13: "April in Paris"; Track 14: "Tea for Two"; Track 15: "You're the Cream in My Coffee"; Track 16: "Lover Come Back to Me"; Track 17: [unidentified selection]; Track 18: "How Long Has this Been Going On"; Track 19: "Pennies from Heaven"; Track 20: "Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered"; Track 21: "The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else"; Track 22: "Too Marvelous for Words"; Track 23: "Who Cares"; 24: "What's New" (incomplete); Disc 2, Track 1: "What's New" (continued from previous side). Tracks 2-14: "See it Now" television program with Edward R. Murrow and Louis Armstrong, broadcast December 13, 1955: Track 3: opening of show; Armstrong quote; introduction; Louis's European tour; "When it's Sleepy Time Down South"; Track 4: Switzerland; Louis talks and plays along with a Swiss band; Track 5: fragment of "When the Saints Go Marching In"; Track 6: fragment of "The Bucket's Got a Hole in it"; Palermo; fragment of "Mop Mop"; Track 7: "Paris Loves Satchmo"; fragment of "C'est Si Bon"; Track 8: fragment of "Struttin' with Some Barbecue" (Claude Luter); Track 9: interview with Louis in Paris; "salad" story; going to Russia; playing in Berlin in 1953; Track 10: explanation of jazz terms: "Gutbucket" (talk about going to La Scala opera house); talk about Joe Oliver; "Cool"; "Bop"; "Cat"; "Barrelhouse"; Track 11: nicknames Dipper and Satchmo. Talk about retirement; hard work; Track 12: fragment of "12th Street Rag"; Track 13: commercial; fragment of "On the Sunny Side of the Street"; Track 14: fragment of "That's My Desire"; Melbourne, Australia; "Blueberry Hill"; Helsinki, Finland; "Kokomo"; Italy; Murrow quotes Hughes Panassie. Recording of Perry Como television program, broadcast March 23, 1956: Track 15: "Mack the Knife" (Louis Armstrong); Track 16: Louis talks with Perry; mentions Australia, France, Italy, Sweden, England; Track 17: "Ko Ko Mo" (Louis Armstrong, Perry Como). Tracks 18-23: Recordings of Joe Bushkin sound recording "Midnight Rhapsody" (album seems to be transferred at a slightly fast speed): Track 18: "Manhattan"; Track 19: "Laura"; Track 20: "Stormy Weather"; Track 21: "September Song"; Track 22: "Embraceable You"; Track 23: "Come Rain or Come Shine"; Track 24: "I'm a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas" (Louis Armstrong); Track 25: "I'm in the Market for You" (Louis Armstrong); Track 26: "Moonlight in Vermont" [unidentified female vocalist]; Track 27: "Love for Sale" [unidentified female vocalist]. |
Notes |
Louis was on Horace Heidt's show on February 26, 1955 and Edward R. Murrow's "See It Now" on December 13, 1955. The Perry Como appearance is from March 23, 1956. |
People |
Armstrong, Lucille Wilson Como, Perry Emerson, Faye Heidt, Horace Luter, Claude Middleton, Velma Murrow, Edward R. |
Search Terms |
Australia Berlin France Germany Italy Louis Armstrong and His All Stars Paris Soviet Union |
Year Range from |
1955 |
Year Range to |
1956 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.204 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |