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I met this young lady in 1932 who was an undertaker's daughter. So, she invite me to see her father's undertaker shop. Then, she begin to explain to me about all the different coffins, a half coach or a full, coach. All that I didn't like anyway; because, I wasn't interested in death nor dying. So, one night she came to a party where we were playing. At that time, my group was called the Four Keys. And, So, she was a little tipsy so she walked over to each member and she walked over to Mr. Martin, she says, "I know who you are. You are Duke Ellington." And so she came to Bogan, the guitar player, and says, "You are Ted Lewis." Then, she started over to me and she says, "You are Armstrong. I know you are Armstrong, but, you are not Louis Armstrong. That Louis. You're just plain old Louie Bluie. That's what you are." And so, I use the name to record under later
I met this young lady in 1932 who was an undertaker's daughter. So, she invite me to see her father's undertaker shop. Then, she begin to explain to me about all the different coffins, a half coach or a full, coach. All that I didn't like anyway; because, I wasn't interested in death nor dying. So, one night she came to a party where we were playing. At that time, my group was called the Four Keys. And, So, she was a little tipsy so she walked over to each member and she walked over to Mr. Martin, she says, "I know who you are. You are Duke Ellington." And so she came to Bogan, the guitar player, and says, "You are Ted Lewis." Then, she started over to me and she says, "You are Armstrong. I know you are Armstrong, but, you are not Louis Armstrong. That Louis. You're just plain old Louie Bluie. That's what you are." And so, I use the name to record under later
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I met this young lady in 1932
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who was an undertaker's daughter
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So she invite me to see her father's undertaker shop
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Then she began to explain to me about all the different coffins
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uh half couch or full couch
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All that I didn't like anyway
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because I wasn't interested in death nor dying
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So one night she came to a party where we were playing
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At that time my group was called the Four Keys
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And so she was a little tipsy so she walked over to each member
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Movie Summary
About the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America.
