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Home tapes released courtesy of:
The Louis Armstrong House Museum
34-56 107th Street
Corona, Queens, NY 11368

In 1943, Louis Armstrong and his wife Lucille settled in a modest house in Corona, Queens. Today the Louis Armstrong House Museum is open to the public for guided tours. The home tapes on this CD set come from Louis Armstrong's personal collection discovered in the house. For more information, visit the Louis Armstrong House Museum.

The Louis Armstrong House
The Louis Armstrong House Museum, Queens, NY
Rudy Vallee's Fleischmann's Yeast Show & Louis' Home-Recorded Tapes
Louis Armstrong Recording His Stories At Home
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HIS STORIES — LOUIS AT HOME

"That's my story ... what I don't have I don't need ... Always loved everybody, still do." —Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong loved his tape recorder. He brought one with him on tour and had them set up throughout his home to capture his musings, interactions with family and friends, interviews and more. Now, for the first time ever, Louis shares his thoughts of life at home and on the road with his public.

"One of the most fascinating discoveries in the Archives is Louis' collection of home-recorded tapes. In addition to the tape decks in his home, Louis traveled with a steamer trunk that had been modified to hold one or two reel-to-reel tape decks and a turntable so that he could listen to music while he was relaxing in the dressing room or hotel room ... His bulky trunk packed with audio equipment can best be imagined as a 1950s "Walkman."

Just as Louis did with his tape decks in his home, while in the hotel room or backstage dressing room he would hit the "record" button when he was hanging out with band members, visitors, or whomever.
—Michael Cogswell, from his book "Louis Armstrong — The Offstage Story of Satchmo"

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