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In those days, you could take a newspaper, and I'd go to the fish market and buy a whole...

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Uploaded: 2025-04-30T09:08:39+00:00
Duration: 8 s
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues • 2022

In those days, you could take a newspaper, and I'd go to the fish market and buy a whole newspaper
full of fish heads

Full Transcript

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In those days, you could take a newspaper,

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and I'd go to the fish market

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and buy a whole newspaper full of fish heads.

Duration

8 seconds

Views

29

Timestamp in Movie

00:16:48

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.

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Just plain, chopped-off fish heads

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- Yeah. - My mother would get them fish heads

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Boy, you talking about beautiful food. And delicious.

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And the next morning, I'd go to school with a cabbage s...

${\an8}Everyone, no doubt, had a different style. They had every class. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues$ 00:06
{\an8}Everyone, no doubt, had a different style. They had ev...

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They had a rags-and-bones yard.

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And then we used to go down to the red-light district

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♪ I've got those coal cart blues

${\an8}"The Negroes were only allowed to work in the red-light district. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues$ 00:05
{\an8}"The Negroes were only allowed to work in the red...

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They were paid good salaries and had a longtime job.

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The pay was swell no matter what your vocation was.

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No mixing at the guest tables at no time.

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As far as to buy a little trim, that was absolutely out of t...

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As you call them, "prostitutes,"

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Well, quite naturally,

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So, there I'd be, a little boy, and put some coal on th...

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Quite naturally, you gotta take a mug there right quick.

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That's how I got a chance to hear Bunk Johnson,

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- They were all in the red-light district? - Yeah, they... E...

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New Year's Eve, 1912. Louis and his pals were out on th...