Louis Armstrong: The Untold Stories 🇺🇸

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Louis Armstrong: The Untold Stories Every story you thought you knew about Satchmo — you only knew half of it. This channel goes behind the legend. The Newport night nobody planned. The contract he signed with open eyes. The song the label refused to release. Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) was the most important musician in the history of American music. He invented modern jazz phrasing. He recorded "West End Blues" and "What a Wonderful World" and knocked the Beatles off the charts at sixty-three. He played through a heart condition his doctors called fatal. He carried New Orleans inside him every day of his life. We tell the stories nobody told. New video every day. Topics covered: Louis Armstrong biography, jazz history, swing era music, 1920s-1970s American music, civil rights and jazz, untold jazz stories, Satchmo, jazz legends, Newport Jazz Festival, Hot Five recordings, Hello Dolly, What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong personal life.