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When I finish playing"Star-Spangled Banner," I feel just as proud as anybodythat ever...

Name: When I finish playing"Star-Spangled Banner," I feel just as proud as anybodythat ever...
Uploaded: 2025-04-30T09:40:58+00:00
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Description: When I finish playingStar-Spangled Banner, I feel just as proud as anybodythat ever... - scene from Louis Armstrongs Black & Blues. When I finish playing Star-Spangled Banner, I feel just as proud as anybody that ever picked up a gun, shouldered a rifle, and said, Forward march

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues • 2022

When I finish playing
"Star-Spangled Banner," I feel just as proud as anybody
that ever picked up a gun, shouldered a rifle,
and said, "Forward march"

Full Transcript

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When I finish playing "Star-Spangled Banner,"

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I feel just as proud as anybody that ever picked up a gun,
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shouldered a rifle, and said, "Forward march".

Duration

15 seconds

Views

24

Timestamp in Movie

00:23:20

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.

${\an8}I was with James Baldwin, listening to Louis, - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues$ 00:07
{\an8}I was with James Baldwin, listening to Louis,

${\an8}And then he ended with "The Star-Spangled Banner." - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues$ 00:24
{\an8}And then he ended with "The Star-Spangled Banner....

00:08
And just in the purity that Louis brought to it

${\an8}Everybody talks about Hendrix and "The Star-Spangled Banner". - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues$ 00:05
{\an8}Everybody talks about Hendrix and "The Star-Spang...

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But Armstrong was performing it as early as World War II.

00:04
You know, right after Pearl Harbour, he started putting it i...

00:05
And he is going on stage and pouring his soul into that song...

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And there's pride,

${\an8}Louis Armstrong was coming from a 40-year memory of what slavery was. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues$ 00:06
{\an8}Louis Armstrong was coming from a 40-year memory of wh...

${\an8}He understood that there was a battle in this country, - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues$ 00:11
{\an8}He understood that there was a battle in this country,

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Who, if anybody, was the biggest influence on your early lif...

00:04
'Cause I... Outside of the Waif's Home, the orphan...

00:04
And he always told me, "Never play a lot of that jiujit...

00:11
Play the lead. You got a good tone,

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You play in that hot sun, you know, with that uniform on,

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When the authorities closed down sinful old Storyville,

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King Oliver had left town anyhow for Chicago,

${\an8}"I have always been crazy over Joe Oliver and his playing. - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues$ 00:05
{\an8}"I have always been crazy over Joe Oliver and his...

${\an8}So when Joe sent for me to join him in Chicago, - Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues$ 00:08
{\an8}So when Joe sent for me to join him in Chicago,

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Chicago was about