July Fourth to many means fireworks, hot dogs and Louis Armstrong. Stachmo always claimed that he was born on Independence Day 1901. In fact after his death it was disovered that his actual birthday was on August 4.
This discovery was made Louis Armstrong’s house in Corona, Queens.
We speak with Deslyn Dyer, Assistant Director of the Louis Armstrong Home and Archives about his real birth date, his connection with NYC (don’t you connect him with New Orleans?) and more in this first of what we hope to be a regular series of conversations about the story behind the music of our legends of American music.
At:
http://conversationsontheroad.com (Access July, 2007)
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