A Song Is Born (1948)

Louis Armstrong: Louis Armstrong

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• Professor Hobart Frisbee : That's good. Now that we're all agreed, in the vernacular I heard last night, let's start on the down beat and take off. Is that the correct way of phrasing it?

  Louis Armstrong : That's a good deal.

• Honey Swanson : [singing]  Satchmo, get on that horn, Let's hear, let's hear, Let's hear how jazz was born

  Louis Armstrong : One, two, three, four.

  [singing] 

  Louis Armstrong : They took a reet jungle beat, Brought it to Basin Street, And that's how jazz was born, And then someone played a waiI, All up and down the scale, And that's how jazz was born...