Archive Record
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Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.3.0248 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: "The Big Show" (4/29/51). Louis plays recordings and makes comments. Louis talks with teenage fans in his dressing room of the Palomar Theater, Seattle, WA. Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1, Track 1: "The Big Show" (4/29/51): Tallulah Bankhead introduces Milton Berle; Milton Berle monologue; Track 2: commercial; Track 3: Bankhead introduces the next selection; Track 4: medley of Meredith Wilson compositions performed by Tallulah Bankhead, Gordon MacRae, Milton Berle, Rosemary Clooney, Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman and the Big Show Orchestra and Chorus; Track 5: conversation between Bankhead, Berle, Merman, MacRae, Clooney, Durante and Frank Lovejoy; Track 6: close of program. Recordings of sound recordings: Track 7: "A Bluebird Singing in My Heart" (Bing Crosby); Track 8: "Maybe It's Because" (Connie Haines); Track 9: Louis introduces the next selection; Track 10: "Oh you can't fool an old horsefly" (Vernon Dalhart); Track 11: "Goulash" (Jazzerimba Orch.); Track 12: "Jazz Addie" (Jazzerimba Orch); Track 13: "Organ Grinder Swing" (Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight); Track 14: "Shine" (Ella Fitzgerald, Chick Webb). Track 15: Louis meets with fans, Roberta Minor, Mary Jane Gandy, Ruth Minor; fans ask Louis to dedicate songs to them in his upcoming performances; talks about his reel-to-reel recordings; handkerchiefs; ties; antique records; fan asks if Louis gets tired singing; Louis signs autographs; Velma Middleton passes by and sings a bit; fans talk to a service man in Louis's dressing room; fans ask about that evening's program; Track 16: "You'll be There" (Peerless Quartet); Track 17: fans remind Louis to dedicate a song to them; Disc 2, Track 1: more conversation with fans; Louis talks about his recording collection; Track 2: "Don't Bite the Hand" (Bert Williams) (fans leave); Track 3: Louis talks about the fans; Track 4: "Smooth Sailing" (Ella Fitzgerald); introduction; Track 5: "I Love You Madly" (Ella Fitzgerald); Track 6: introduction; Track 7: "The Little White Cloud that Cried" (Johnny Ray); Track 8: conversation; Track 9: "Cry" (Johnny Ray); Track 10: introduction; "Sing Me to Sleep" (Irene Williams); Track 11: Louis talks about making early recordings with Johnny Dodds for the Okeh Recording company; Track 12: "Sweetest Story Ever Told" (Irene Williams); Track 13: introduction; Track 14: "Get Out and Get Under the Moon" (Helen Kane); Track 15: Louis and Velma talk; Velma reads the liner notes to the recording, "Satchmo at Symphony Hall"; Track 16: Louis talks about framing pictures and playing pool; Louis tells a story about Bill Robinson playing pool; Track 17: Louis, Velma, Stuff Crouch and Gordon reminisce about "Big Sid" Catlett; Track 18: Louis recalls the last time he saw "Big Sid" at the Storyville Club in Boston, and hearing about his death; "Big Sid" drum solo (from the recording, "Satchmo at Symphony Hall"); Track 19: "C Jam Blues"; Track 20: "Baby Won't You Please Come Home"; Track 21: Louis and Velma talk about "Mop Mop" and "Boff Boff"; Velma reads a magazine article about Louis and Jack Teagarden visiting Pee Wee Russell in the hospital. |
Notes |
Sid Catlett died in 1951 and Louis and Jack Teagarden visited Pee Wee Russell in the hospital in 1951 but Johnny Ray's "Cry" is from 1952 so that is probably the year this tape was made. |
People |
Bankhead, Tallulah Berle, Milton Bigard, Barney Cary, Dick Catlett, Sid Crosby, Bing Crouch, Stuff Dodds, Johnny Fitzgerald, Ella Gandy, Mary Jane Kane, Helen Middleton, Velma Minor, Roberta Minor, Ruth Ray, Johnny Robinson, Bill Russell, Pee Wee Shaw, Arvell Teagarden, Jack Webb, Ella Wililams, Irene |
Search Terms |
Boston Louis Armstrong and His All Stars |
Year Range from |
1951 |
Year Range to |
1952 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.248 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |