[78-L] Louis Armstrong RANT, WARNING

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

For some reason KSBJ (a Houston Christian rock station on FM) was 
playing that song about 20 years ago for awhile. Why I don't remember.....

At 09:16 PM 1/21/2010, you wrote:
>Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> > I can think of at least one performance that really upsets me. "What a
> > Wonderful World" is an embarrassment that stayed buried until 
> "Good Morning,
> > Vietnam" dug it out of mothballs. Music teachers have actually used this
> > recording to teach the subject of Armstrong; many of them never 
> heard of the
> > Hot Five.
>
>Hardly buried..we were playing it on the radio in 1969. I still have the
>original 45 on ABC. And what the hell is all this outrage about 
>Louis sullying
>himself by performing something other than jazz? Jee-zus! Did you 
>get in a rage
>because Jimmy Durante sang "Young at Heart" without making reference 
>to his pal
>Umbriago? I don't know when I've read a bigger load of crap than this thread.
>
>dl
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