NPR is compiling their list of 50 of The Great Voices In Recorded History to air throughout 2010 on Morning Edition and All Things Considered.You can weigh in by following the link and posting a comment and sounds.The format for this is a bit unorganized. I was hoping for a drop down list by genre or something..but I guess you just post a comment and someone at NPR will take into consideration ...
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at least thats what ive experienced. usually during the brides dance with her father, the dj will drop louis armstrong's 'what a wonderful world' on da danceflo. well, at my wedding they better play this version...
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Soul musician Booker T. Jones, best known for fronting the band Booker T. and the MGs, has teamed with up-and-coming singer/songwriter Jolie Holland for a duet of Louis Armstrong's classic, "What A Wonderful World." The collaboration marks the 40th anniversary of the track, which reached Number One on the UK singles chart in 1968.The Holland and Armstrong collaboration can be heard on "the USAT...
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“It’s getting almost so bad a colored man hasn’t got any country,” a furious Mr. [Louis] Armstrong told him. President Eisenhower, he charged, was “two faced,” and had “no guts.” For Governor Faubus, he used a double-barreled hyphenated expletive, utterly unfit for print. The two settled on something safer: “uneducated plow boy.” The euphemism, Mr. Lubenow says, was far more hi
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Louis Armstrong, Fleischmann's Yeast Show & Louis' Home-Recorded Tapes (Jazz Society). If Armstrong's big band of the late 1930s had been this supercharged on its commercial recordings, critics might not have written all those disparaging things about it. These air checks tell the real story of what Armstrong was capable of in fronting Luis Russell's band. Here is the fountainhead of jazz ins...
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--- - |- From the Paris Review (as emailed to me this morning by Rock and Rap Confidential). Great to see how genius translates in other forms. ~~- Louis Armstrong
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“It’s getting almost so bad a colored man hasn’t got any country,” a furious Mr. [Louis] Armstrong told him. President Eisenhower, he charged, was “two faced,” and had “no guts.” For Governor Faubus, he used a double-barreled hyphenated expletive, utterly unfit for print. The two settled on something safer: “uneducated plow boy.” The euphemism, Mr. Lubenow says, was far more hi
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Don't worry. I mean you no harm.Recently, I was intrigued to read a couple of MOG posts explaining the sources (arcane or mundane) of the posters' respective screen names. So, jumping aboard…My given name is Michael. Thus, Mike. As for the Knife? I fancy that it has a bit to do with a biting sense of humor, as in a propensity for cutting wordplay. But it's mostly about the cut: The DJ backgroun.
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A great tune that we had around the house when I was just a little tiny deadboydeadboy. My dad had very eclectic tastes. This song has a very interesting history and if anyone has the original, I'd like to hear it. Bill?
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