Louis Armstrong grew up poor in a single-parent household. He was 13 when he celebrated the New Year by running out on the street and firing a pistol that belonged to the current man in his mother's life. At the Colored Waifs Home for Boys, he learned to play the bugle and the clarinet and joined the home's brass band...See full bio »
2008The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
(writer: "BIG BUTTER AND EGG MAN" / performer: "DEAR OLD SOUTHLAND", "IF I COULD BE WITH YOU ONE HOUR TONIGHT")
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Episode #2.17
(1965)
(performer: "When It's Sleepy Time Down South", "Struttin' with Some Barbeque", "I've Got a Lot of Living to Do", "Mack the Knife", "Ole Miss")
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Episode #2.15
(1965)
(performer: "Blueberry Hill", "Hello, Dolly", "When the Saints Come Marching In", "Indiana", "Sleepy Time Down South", "The Bucket's Got a Hole in It", "I Left My Heart in San Francisco")
1957The Edsel Show
(TV special)
(performer: "Now You Has Jazz" - uncredited, "The Birth of the Blues" - uncredited, "On the Sunny Side of the Street" - uncredited)
1957Satchmo the Great
(documentary)
(performer: "St Louis Blues", "When the Saint's Go Marching In", "Memphis Blues")
1956High Society
(performer: "High Society Calypso" - uncredited)
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Episode #1.1
(1949)
(writer: "Swing That Music" - uncredited / performer: "Swing That Music" - uncredited, "On The Sunny Side Of The Street" - uncredited, "Shadrack" - uncredited, "When The Saints Go Marching In" - uncredited)
1948A Song Is Born
(performer: "A Song Is Born" 1948, "Goldwyn Stomp" 1947 - uncredited)
1947New Orleans
(performer: "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans" 1947, "Maryland, My Maryland" 1861, "Where the Blues Were Born in New Orleans" 1947, "Buddy Bolden's Blues", "Farewell to Storyville", "The Blues Are Brewin'" 1947, "Endie" 1947)
1946Headline Bands
(short)
(writer: "Old Man Mose" - uncredited)
1944Atlantic City
(performer: "HARLEM ON PARADE", "AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'" / "RHYTHM FOR SALE")
1944Jam Session
(performer: "I Can't Give You Anything but Love")
There's some folks, that, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
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Trivia:
Refused to go a State Department-sponsored concert tour of the Soviet Union in 1959 because he felt the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower wasn't doing enough to promote civil rights legislation.
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Trademark:
He had a distinctively gravelly singing voice
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