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Catalog Number |
2003.197.24 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Satchmo Collection |
Description |
Scope: Recording of broadcast of "The Ed Sullivan Show" from Spoleto, Italy on July 19, 1959, continued from 2003.197.23. Recordings of sound recordings. Louis Armstrong and friends at the Hotel Gotham in Detroit. Originally cataloged in ”Tape Catalog #2, Part 1” (see Manuscripts, 1987.2.23). Tape box decorated with photographs (Louis with Gabriele Clonisch, Louis with bassist Billy Cronk). Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1, Tracks 1-12: Recording of broadcast of "The Ed Sullivan Show" from Spoleto, Italy on July 19, 1959, continued from 2003.197.23. Track 1: Ed Sullivan talks about Louis Armstrong being rushed to the hospital and how Gian Carlo Menotti called the hospital and had a tank of oxygen rushed over; Sullivan meets with Menotti; Track 2: Selections from Donizetti's opera, "The Duke of Alba"; Track 3: "Strada N'Fonza" (Ornella Vanone); Track 4: Excerpt of Tennessee Williams's play, "Night of the Iguana"; Track 5: Unidentified selection plays over footage of Walton's Puppets; Track 6: Ballet dancers Nora Kaye and Scott Douglas dance to "Romeo and Juliet"; Track 7: Ballet dancers Nora Kaye and Scott Douglas dance to "Romeo and Juliet" (better sound quality than previous track); Track 8: Edsel commercial; Track 9: "Pace, pace, mio Dio" (Eileen Farrell); Track 10: John Butler's dance troupe dance to "Five Senses"; Track 11: Commercial; Track 12: Verdi's "Requiem Mass"; Track 13: "A Long Strong Black Pudding" (Gregorian chant parody featuring unknown choir); Track 14: "Kitty Cat Part 1" (Barber Browne); Track 15: "Kitty Cat Part 2" (Barber Browne); Track 16: "Mambo Oogie" [unknown female vocalist]; Track 17: "Ko Ko Mo" (The Crew-Cuts); Track 18: "Earth Angel" (The Crew-Cuts); Track 19: "Pledging My Love" (Johnny Ace); Track 20: "No Money" (Johnny Ace); Track 21: "Hopscotch Mambo" (Jymme Shore); Track 22: "Fly Swatter Boogie" (Jymme Shore); Track 23: "Sincerely" (The McGuire Sisters); Track 24: "(My Baby Don't Love Me) No More" (The McGuire Sisters); Track 25: "Begin the Begat" (Lyn Murray) (incomplete); Disc 2, Track 1: "Begin the Begat" (Lyn Murray); Track 2: "O Dem Golden Slippers" (Lyn Murray) (incomplete); Tracks 3-7: Recording of John Cali sound recording, "The Banjo Mistrel Man." "Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight/I Want a Girl (Just Like the One Who Married Dear Old Dad)/Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-de Ay"; Track 4: "Oh, By Jingo"; Track 5: "Moonlight Bay"; Track 6: "Down By the Old Mill Stream/Honeymoon/I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now"; Track 7: "Down South Camp Meeting"; Track 8: Louis Armstrong at the Hotel Gotham in Detroit, Michigan with Dink Patterson, Flo Patterson, Stutz Anderson, Billie Wright. Louis turns on the tape recorder, explains that it's taping and introduces all the people in the room. "Johnny" the bellboy enters (they call him "Shorty") and Louis makes him introduce himself on the tape, telling him he's going to play it for all the cats in Harlem; Louis mentions that Velma's told him about this bellboy, who, when asked about the bill, holds up two fingers and says "boom"; Louis mentions producer Joe "Ziggy" Johnson in the room; Louis asks the bellboy if he knows any jokes; he doesn't so Louis tells dirty joke about a "regular porter"; everyone screams with laughter; Louis introduces Billie Wright, who just married A. F. Anderson; Louis relates a joke Billy Eckstine told him about a white man to be hanged, who keeps fainting, and tells a black prisoner this is his first time; Louis mentions Stuff Crouch; Track 9: Billie Wright tells a joke about a mouse; Louis keeps interrupting; Louis wants the bellboy to talk; introduces Flo Patterson; shows her how the tape recorder works and not to let the light get too full; Louis belches ("Goddamn this caviar"); Louis in the background tells her to sing that 13 chord; Track 10: Patterson introduces herself and all the people in the room about the sing the next song; Patterson sings "Ol' Man Mose"; everyone in the room joins in on the "Ol man's" and "we believe's"; Track 11: Big Dink Patterson gets on the microphone and talks to Louis about what he's going to sing; Louis mentions hanging backstage with him at the Apollo in 1936; Louis asks him about "the boy" and asks if he's going to get his act together; Louis talks about Patterson's brother "over there" (in Europe) and turns it into a joke about his brother's reaction to a plate of eggs and sausage; conversation about what to do next; look through records about what to put on next; Patterson turns the microphone over to Stutz Anderson; Anderson suggests "I Cover the Waterhole"; conversation about the tape; Louis tells them they have an hour to fill up; Track 12: Louis tells a joke about going to see Nicodemus and one person brought two cases of liquor and the other mentioned he only had a case of gonorrhea ("Bring that, we're gonna get drunk and drink everything!); conversation about scotch and bourbon; Louis in the background talks about reels; Track 13: Anderson passes the microphone to Flo Patterson; Patterson wants to hear the tape; Louis mentions that he can cut music into any tape and will play a tape where Velma cut into the music to talk about an 11-year-old boy; Patterson says no, and continues talking (slightly tipsy); Patterson sings "The Skeleton in the Closet"; Track 14: Patterson complains that she sang it too high; Stutz Anderson introduces Billie Anderson; they talk for a while, coyly; after some random conversation, Louis gets on the microphone and tells a story about Zutty Singleton and Louis giving him Pluto Water; Louis mimics the sound of Singleton on the toilet and mentions that he sent him a telegram, "Pluto great. Clean house"; Louis mentions they have to turn the tape over; introduces producer Ziggy Johnson; Tracks 15-21: Recording of radio broadcast, "From New Orleans to Hobart," with the Tom Pickering sextet with vocals by Kay Staveley and narration by Ellis Blaine: "When the Saints Go Marchin' In"; Track 16: Blaine mentions how many New Orleans musicians are dead but every time Louis Armstrong picks up his horn, you hear the ghosts of New Orleans; "Basin Street Blues"; Track 17: Introduction to part three of the series, "Portrait of the Blues"; Track 18: "Careless Love"; Track 19: "See See Rider"; Track 20: "St. Louis Blues"; Track 21: "Tin Roof Blues." |
Notes |
The material on this tape is from the 1950s but the tape itself was cataloged and the box was decorated in 1970-1971. |
Tape Information |
Reel 22 according to ”Tape Catalog #2, Part 1” (see Manuscripts, 1987.2.23) |
People |
Ace, Johnny Anderson, Stutz Blaine, Ellis Browne, Barber Butler, John Cali, John Cronk, Bill Crouch, Stuff Douglas, Scott Eckstine, Billy Farrell, Eileen Johnson, Ziggy Kaye, Nora Mentti, Gian Carlo Murray, Lyn Patterson, Dink Patterson, Flo Pickering, Tom Shore, Jymme Singleton, Zutty Staveley, Kaye Sullivan, Ed Vanone, Ornella Wright, Billy |
Search Terms |
Ed Sullivan Show, The (television program) Spoleto (Italy) Italy Jokes Opera |
Year Range from |
1969 |
Year Range to |
1971 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
2003.197.24 Front |
Accession number |
2003.197 |