Broadway Almost Cut Fats Waller's New Song. Louis Armstrong Played It From the Pit Anyway.
Louis Armstrong: The Untold Stories
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In June 1929, at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway, a soft, unhurried love song by Fats Waller and Andy Razaf had already been crossed off the show's running order twice — and a nearly unknown cornet player sitting in the orchestra pit was about to change that for good. Louis Armstrong had been hired to fill a chair in the pit orchestra, not to be noticed. Producers were ready to cut the song for a third and final time before opening night. What happened onstage that Thursday is a story about the four bars nobody asked him to play — and the reason a song almost nobody wanted became one of the most recorded standards in American music. This story is inspired by real events and personalities; some scenes are dramatized. Images are AI-assisted historical recreations. #LouisArmstrong #JazzHistory #Satchmo
Broadway Almost Cut Fats Waller's New Song. Louis Armstrong Played It From the Pit Anyway.
Louis Armstrong: The Untold Stories
42 views
In June 1929, at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway, a soft, unhurried love song by Fats Waller and Andy Razaf had already been crossed off the show's running order twice — and a nearly unknown cornet player sitting in the orchestra pit was about to change that for good. Louis Armstrong had been hired to fill a chair in the pit orchestra, not to be noticed. Producers were ready to cut the song for a third and final time before opening night. What happened onstage that Thursday is a story about the four bars nobody asked him to play — and the reason a song almost nobody wanted became one of the most recorded standards in American music. This story is inspired by real events and personalities; some scenes are dramatized. Images are AI-assisted historical recreations. #LouisArmstrong #JazzHistory #Satchmo