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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

And he put that grease around his lips

And he put that grease around his lips

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And he put that grease around his lips.
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4 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:54:53
Uploaded
Apr 30, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, music
Production
Imagine Documentaries,Polygram Entertainment,Imagine Entertainment

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Movie Summary

Follow the life and legacy of the master and so-called founding father of jazz, America's first pop star, and cultural ambassador.
And in the room, you'll see maybe two nuns, a streetwalker. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:06
And in the room, you'll see maybe two nuns, a streetwal...
You see maybe a guy that's come out of penitentiary. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:04
You see maybe a guy that's come out of penitentiary.
All of the different levels of society in a dressing room. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:05
All of the different levels of society in a dressing room.
First time we see important-looking whites - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:13
First time we see important-looking whites
♪ Fellas she can't get The fellas she ain't met ♪ - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:05
♪ Fellas she can't get The fellas she ain't met ♪...
Yeah. Glad they can't come up to me and say, - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:11
Yeah. Glad they can't come up to me and say,
{\an8}But you still have some small-minded prop men, carpenters, callboys. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:06
{\an8}But you still have some small-minded prop men, carpent...
One of the moments that dragged me the most happened in 1952 - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:08
One of the moments that dragged me the most happened in 1952
♪ Glory Alley, Glory Alley - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:15
♪ Glory Alley, Glory Alley
He called, the extras and different things. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:06
He called, the extras and different things.
Then he'll come to the stars' dressing room, - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:05
Then he'll come to the stars' dressing room,
So now, he'll come up, - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:06
So now, he'll come up,
"Satchmo, you better come on out there, - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:08
"Satchmo, you better come on out there,
If they wanted Harry James, they'd have had him in front." - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:11
If they wanted Harry James, they'd have had him in fron...
And I said, "You take it... You tell MGM to shove that picture up their ass." - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:06
And I said, "You take it... You tell MGM to shove that ...
I said, "I don't... I ain't a movie star nohow." - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:09
I said, "I don't... I ain't a movie star noho...
You take the smallest fucking peckerwood, - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:07
You take the smallest fucking peckerwood,
The Glenn Miller Story, the way he's cast in that is very positive. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:05
The Glenn Miller Story, the way he's cast in that is ve...
♪ Yes, Basin Street is the street - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:11
♪ Yes, Basin Street is the street
A Song Was Born, what Louis does there is just performing. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues 00:06
A Song Was Born, what Louis does there is just performing.