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By 1929 Armstrong was a big star, touring the U.S. and the continent with his bands. His singing style became as popular as his trumpet playing. He appeared on Broadway in Swingin’ the Dream (1938) where he and Maxine Sullivan introduced “Darn that Dream.” In 1947, as public tastes in music changed, his big band was disbanded and the small group, Louis Armstrong Allstars, was formed and toured the world for 20 years, earning “Pops” the honorary title of “America’s Ambassador.”
Armstrong was a frequent guest on TV specials and made two dozen films, one of his most charming with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, High Society (1956).
- Sandra Burlingame
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Terry Teachout
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Mariner Books
Louis Armstrong, Thomas Brothers
Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words
Oxford University Press
Gary Giddins
Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong
Da Capo Press
Various
DownBeat - The Great Jazz Interviews (A 75th Anniversary Anthology) (Book)
Hal Leonard
Down Beat: Sixty Years of Jazz
Hal Leonard Corporation
Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward
Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
Jazz: A History of America's Music
Knopf
Masters of American Music
Louis Armstrong - Satchmo (1990)
DVD (Biography with performances)
Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John Lund, Louis Calhern, Louis Armstrong
High Society
Warner Home Video
DVD
James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Charles Drake, George Tobias
The Glenn Miller Story
Universal Studios
Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino, Bob Crosby
The Five Pennies
Paramount
Wynton Marsalis, Keith David, Duke Ellington, Branford Marsalis, Gary Giddins, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Stan Levey, Gene Krupa, Fats Waller, Harry Connick Jr., George Wein
Jazz: A Film By Ken Burns
Pbs Paramount
Ethel Waters, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram
Cabin in the Sky
Jimmy Giuffre, Thelonious Monk, Henry Grimes, Sonny Stitt, Sal Salvador, Anita O'Day, George Shearing, Dinah Washington, Gerry Mulligan, Big Maybelle, Chuck Berry, Chico Hamilton, Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, Mahalia Jackson, David Baily
Jazz on a Summer's Day/A Summer's Day With Bert Stern
New Yorker Video
Louis Armstrong - Live in '59 (Jazz Icons)
Tdk DVD Video
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