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Louis Armstrong: "niger, illegitimus" -- and baptized Catholic
Deacon's Bench ^
| December 23, 2008
| Deacon Greg Kandra
Posted on 12/23/2008 9:32:29 AM PST by NYer
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:32:30 AM PST
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NYer
To: Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; nickcarraway; Romulus; ...
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:33:17 AM PST
by
NYer
("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
To: NYer
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:34:30 AM PST
by
mrclean5
To: NYer
One of the founding fathers of Jazz. Great man. He looked silly when he was blowing his horn, because he puffed his cheeks out, but he was a great man.
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:35:59 AM PST
by
ichabod1
(Reagan wouldÂ’ve fired them.)
To: NYer; mrclean5
He also did admit to a marijuana habit.
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:36:12 AM PST
by
sinanju
To: mrclean5
Today, hed be president ???What???
Was he born in Africa too? A Communist?
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:39:12 AM PST
by
Bon mots
To: ichabod1
It’s a Wonderful World.....
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:39:53 AM PST
by
Dr. Ursus
To: mrclean5
...until a baptismal certificate confirming his actual birth date as August 4, 1901, surfaced and in the name of scholarship silenced one of the happiest legends in American popular music. Barack Hussein Obama has not presented a birth certificate OR baptismal certificate yet. But his staff professes his agnostic mother and non-practicing muslim fathers raised him as a Christian.
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:42:18 AM PST
by
weegee
("Let Me Just Cut You Off, Because I Don't Want You To Waste Your Question" - B.Obama Dec 16, 2008)
To: NYer
Wonder if Rev Toohey knew this guy
(as CNN screws over another Republican)
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:44:00 AM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(All hail the Obamasiah! Kneel before Obamohammad!)
To: ichabod1
I had a short acquaintance with Louis over the period of 4 years in my early teens. A gentleman and a superb musician. It was he who first called me “Jimbo”, a name I still use in recollection of how he treated me; a nobody.
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:55:22 AM PST
by
bcsco
(Illinois politicians should be read their Miranda rights when sworn in to office...)
To: NYer
Since his grandmother, Josephine, was a practicing Catholic,
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under his grandmother's influence, voodoo.
I take it Grandma wasn't that good of a Catholic?
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:59:10 AM PST
by
Lee N. Field
(Dispensational exegesis not supported by an a-, post- or historic pre-mil scholar will be ignored.)
To: bcsco
I always loved the story about how Louis' wife bought them a house while he was on the road in the 1943, a pretty modest place in Queens. When Louis returned from off the road, all he had was an address that he had to give to the cabbie. Later, when he could afford something much nicer, he refused to move. It was the only house he'd ever lived in, after years in orphanages and hotel rooms, and he was staying put. And when he was home (which wasn't much--he played 300 nights a year), he'd sit on his front steps and play for the kids in the neighborhood.
His importance to American music can hardly be overstated. And as much as his reputation was for his trumpet playing, it's probably his singing that has been more influential.
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:09:55 AM PST
by
Bubba Ho-Tep
("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
To: mrclean5
Today, hed be presidentNot a chance. He was a great musician, accomplished businessman and deeply patriotic. He made it a point to remind people how good this country had been to him at every concert. The audience loved Louie even more than Louie loved his audiences.
Heck, I wouldn't even be surprised if he was a Republican.
I remember actually attending one of his concerts in the 1960's in Kansas City. For some reason, I remember his shiny teeth better than his music. Please cut me a little slack because I was 7 or 8 years old at the time.
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:14:47 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: ichabod1
He looked silly when he was blowing his horn, because he puffed his cheeks out, but he was a great man.Might you have him confused with Dizzy Gillespie?
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:17:27 AM PST
by
HIDEK6
To: Bubba Ho-Tep
His importance to American music can hardly be overstated. And as much as his reputation was for his trumpet playing, it's probably his singing that has been more influential.Among the public perhaps. But it was his playing that influenced many a jazz musician.
It was he and his "All Stars" who played yearly in Lake Geneva, WI at the Riviera Ballroom. That's where I met him. I got to know all those guys, the same ones in "High Society" with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. In fact, that bus at the beginning of the movie, or one like it, was parked outside the Riviera at each concert. The only switch in band members I recall over the years was Barney Bigard sitting in for Ed Hall on clarinet once or twice. Velma Middleton was the band's singer at the time.
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:17:44 AM PST
by
bcsco
(Illinois politicians should be read their Miranda rights when sworn in to office...)
To: Bubba Ho-Tep
Great pic of a great musician.
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:17:54 AM PST
by
metesky
(My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
To: Lee N. Field
Everyone has two grandmas, so might not have been the same one.
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:18:06 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: VeniVidiVici
They asked Niger Innis about that screenshot and he said, “I think they thought I was a rap singer.”
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:18:19 AM PST
by
HIDEK6
To: HIDEK6
Might you have him confused with Dizzy Gillespie?They both puffed out their cheeks when playing. Dizzy's were more predominant that Satch's, however.
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:19:37 AM PST
by
bcsco
(Illinois politicians should be read their Miranda rights when sworn in to office...)
To: ichabod1
One of the founding fathers of Jazz. Great man. He looked silly when he was blowing his horn, because he puffed his cheeks out, but he was a great man. With all due respect, you are thinking Dizzy Gillispe.
Armstrong kept his cheeks tight.
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