Today's Music Video
Jul. 2nd, 2007 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
infrogmationYouTube video from the Johnny Cash show, 28 October 1970:
Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash do Blue Yodel #9
Satchmo would be dead in less than a year, but he's in great form here.
Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash do Blue Yodel #9
Satchmo would be dead in less than a year, but he's in great form here.
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Date: 2007-07-02 05:51 pm (UTC)Singing Brakeman
Date: 2007-07-02 08:25 pm (UTC)Oh, yeah, I'm familiar with the original recording. Among Armstong's talents was that he was a great blues accompaniest, something he seldom had a chance to demonstrate late in his career, which is another point I find interesting in that tv clip.
I notice YouTube has excerpts from Jimmie Rodger's 1929 soundie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbzc77Tz6PA&NR=1) as well.
I recall I first saw it in the Jimmy Rodgers Museum in Meridian, Mississippi-- 1992, I think. The museum worker clearly disliked playing it for visitors.