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Black History Month Music: Louis Armstrong

Four Walls @FourWalls (86812) • United States 1 Feb

Happy February! And happy Black History Month! This month I’m going to present 28 great musicians from all over the spectrum, which is great because it shows just how influential blacks have been throughout music history. Since...

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One More Month in the Wayback Machine!

Four Walls @FourWalls (86812) • United States 31 May 24

Every year I celebrate my birthday in grand style: with celebrations of music that are turning a “milestone” age. This year, because of the advent of what became rock and roll, I added 70-year-old songs! Those songs are older...

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Clear Channel Memo Songs: What a Wonderful World

Four Walls @FourWalls (86812) • United States 21 Aug 23

Tomorrow I’ll start the top ten favorite songs of mine that were on the Clear Channel Memorandum list of songs thought inappropriate after 9/11. Some of those actually make sense. As with a lot of other songs on this list,...

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Oscar-Nominated Songs: A Kiss to Build a Dream On

Four Walls @FourWalls (86812) • United States 10 Jan 23

One thing that this month-long look at songs nominated for a “Best Original Song” Oscar has done for me: it made me realize how many old movie songs I know that I didn’t know I knew. Today’s song is one of those. You may not...

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What A Wonderful World

CarolDM @CarolDM (203396) • Nashville, Tennessee 16 Feb 22

A friend sent me this video this morning. It has made my day. My week actually. I have heard it many, many times. But the video was different. Perfect. What a wonderful world we live in, if only in our minds. I wish this video...

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Valentine Kisses: A Kiss to Build a Dream On

Four Walls @FourWalls (86812) • United States 25 Jan 22

Who gets up at this ridiculous hour of the day????? I’ve been up since 8 AM, letting workers into my crawl space. Yeah, pity me. (You can really pity me when I get that nearly $11,000 bill for the work! )...

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August 4 - Let's discuss what happened on that day

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222728) • United States 4 Aug 19

National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day Sisters Day 1693 - Dom Perignon invented champagne - It is not clear if he was the inventor; but he developed the techniques used to perfect sparkling wine. 1821 - The Saturday Evening Post...

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All the Time in the World

RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (98072) • Daytona Beach, Florida 18 Sep 17

All the carefully built brick walls I have wrapped myself up in cracked today. One was a song I heard by Louis Armstrong that strongly made me realize that I really wish my husband had all the time in the world and that his...

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Good Morning

Marlina @marlina (154103) • Canada 6 Jun 16

I was just checking a few things on YouTube and found this little gem for my morning salutation. I hope you check it out, it is pretty funny. Good Morning Vietnam Some of the Best Scenes. Robin Williams was such a talented...

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Top 10 Favorite James Bond Themes #10 - "We Have all the Time in the World"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43650) • Denver, Colorado 15 May 16

The James Bond films were, at one time, the highest grossing movie franchise ever, until Harry Potter came along and topped it. Part of the appeal of a Bond movie is the theme song, from which there are 24 to choose (I'm only...

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I saw him LIve....the one and only LOUIS ARMSTRONG.!!

veejay19 @veejay19 (3589) • India 7 Jul 10

Yes folks, one of the greatest and most popular Jazz legends of all times Louis Armstrong or Sachmo as he was known.It was somewhere in `63 or `64 that he came to my city Bombay,India and performed at the Rang Bhavan, an open air...

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what a musician

lorren192 @lorren192 (90) 16 Mar 08

Louis Armstrong he was a great musician a one off talent,but also a genuinely caring man, I watched a programme about him where the tv crew went back to the area where he lived and people who knew him back in the day,said that he...

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Who are the Greats of the World of Music?

Carl Halling @CarlHalling (3617) • United Kingdom 25 Jan 08

Who are the names that will last in music? Who are the names that are still remembered years after they were first famous? Frank Sinatra? Edith Piaf? Elvis? The Beatles? Michael Jackson? Who else will still be talked about in...

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Happy Birthday Louis Armstrong! 4 august 1901

stvasile @stvasile (7306) • Romania 4 Aug 07

Louis Armstrong was the most famous jazz trumpeter of the 20th century. Like Jelly Roll Morton, Armstrong began playing in New Orleans clubs and saloons in his early teens. By the 1920s Armstrong was touring the country and...

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what music have you been listening to today

Galena @Galena (9110) 24 Jul 07

in my case.... Willows Song - The Wicker man soundtrack Everlong (Acoustic) - Foo Fighters Cry Little Sister (Bauhaus? the one off the Lost Boys soundtrack) Moon River - Louis Armstrong Clair De Lune - Claude Debussy...

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listening to music

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What kind of instrument do you play and how often do you practise?

Ainouk @Ainouk (57) • Switzerland 5 Apr 07

I first started to play trumpet. I grew up with jazz music and I always wanted to sound like Louis Armstrong or Harry James. I never practised a lot and it was kind of hard, to get anywhere with my trumpet playing :-) But later...

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mishael1977 @mishael1977 (50) • Nigeria 15 Feb 07

Does anyone have a terrible voice? Do ink you were not born to sing? There lies little hope for you. Look around "Satchmo" Louis Armstrong is not one i would have thought has a great voice but he's one of the world's finest. Keep...

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If you could ask any musician one question what would you ask?

saxappealct @saxappealct (87) 30 Jan 07

Can be ANY musician dead or alive. I think I'd ask Louis Armstrong how to actually say his name because some people say lewis and some say louie!!! Or maybe ask kurt cobain what really happened, did he commit suicide or was he...

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too many revivals

alecs76 @alecs76 (657) • Philippines 17 Jan 07

songs from eraserheads, apo hiking society, vst, rico puno, etc. even from elvis presley, louis armstrong, etc. different versions or singers but same lyrics. movies like war of the worlds, gone in 60 seconds... even tv...

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Who likes jazz?

isavedlatintwice @isavedlatintwice (72) • United States 13 Jan 07

John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald...I feel like I'm the only person who listens to any of these guys anymore. I feel old (though I'm not even 20 yet).

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