Louis Armstrong on I've Got a Secret

[Lazaro Vega]

This came across and thought you might like looking at it. In Terry Teachout's new bio of Armstrong he says that Armstrong called himself "Lew-is" because in New Orleans if you said "Lou-ee" that meant you were French. In any case, begin forwarded message:

Parts 1 and 2 of Louis Armstrong's appearance on I've Got a Secret in 1965 with his trumpet teacher Peter Davis. Davis was the bandmaster of the Colored Waifs Home in New Orleans where Louis was famously incarcerated in 1913, the most productive sentence anyone ever served in a reform school! Note how everyone including host Steve Allen calls him "Louie" except Pops himself, who while talking about the favor he quickly gained with the street folks of New Orleans pronounces his name three times as "Little Louis."

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