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{\an8}And we never had a hard word or nothing
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

{\an8}And we never had a hard word or nothing

{\an8}And we never had a hard word or nothing

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{\an8}And we never had a hard word or nothing.
Duration
4 seconds
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17
Timestamp in Movie
00:50:36
Uploaded
Apr 30, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, music
Production
Imagine Documentaries,Polygram Entertainment,Imagine Entertainment

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Follow the life and legacy of the master and so-called founding father of jazz, America's first pop star, and cultural ambassador.
♪ …gin, son - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:09
♪ …gin, son
When those things wasn't happening, - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:06
When those things wasn't happening,
Some guy asked me, - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:22
Some guy asked me,
You remember that white boy, he's a sailor or something, - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:08
You remember that white boy, he's a sailor or something...
And come to find out, he has damn near every record I made - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:08
And come to find out, he has damn near every record I made
But still and all, he expressed himself. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:04
But still and all, he expressed himself.
He come up, and he shook my hand after the whole show was over, didn't he? - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:05
He come up, and he shook my hand after the whole show was ov...
And he said, "You know, I don't like Negroes." - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:08
And he said, "You know, I don't like Negroes."...
And so I said, "Well, I admire your goddamn sincerity." - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:11
And so I said, "Well, I admire your goddamn sincerity.&...
There's two-thirds of them don't like niggers. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:05
There's two-thirds of them don't like niggers.
But they always got one nigger that they just crazy about, goddamn it. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:06
But they always got one nigger that they just crazy about, g...
{\an8}Pops, he faced a lot of challenges, - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:10
{\an8}Pops, he faced a lot of challenges,
And it was not a simpleminded happiness. It was a transcendent joy. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:05
And it was not a simpleminded happiness. It was a transcende...
He had a blessing inside of him that he was acutely aware of. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:05
He had a blessing inside of him that he was acutely aware of...
I remember when I was a neighbour of Louis Armstrong. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:05
I remember when I was a neighbour of Louis Armstrong.
{\an8}We lived within one block of one another - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:08
{\an8}We lived within one block of one another
I went over to his house to wish him a happy birthday… - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:08
I went over to his house to wish him a happy birthday…
And I wound up getting a present myself and also a present for my wife, Lorraine. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:08
And I wound up getting a present myself and also a present f...
If you had a hard-luck story - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:06
If you had a hard-luck story
It's been instilled in him in the old days of... in New Orleans, - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:06
It's been instilled in him in the old days of... in New...