All of Me
Saturday 9: All of Me (1932)
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.
1) In this song, Louis Armstrong calls his girl "baby." What's the last endearment someone used when speaking to you? I am not sure. It would eb something my mom called me probably. Maybe sweetie?
2) He sings that losing his love made him cry. Do you cry easily? SOOOOO easily. I can be very emotional at times and over silly things.
3) Louis was born in New Orleans, a city famous for music and cuisine. What's something you love about your home town? It is close to the lake and amusement parks.
4) At age 11, Louis unwisely fired a pistol during a New Year's Eve celebration and was sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile detention facility. It was there that he met music teacher Peter Davis, who believed in Louis and taught him to play cornet and bugle. Tell us about someone who believed in you and made your life better. I am not going to go into a huge story, but my dad always believed in me. He always told me to "do the best you can do...that is all you can do". It was great advice and very true.
5) Louis would say that arrest changed his life for the better because it was at the detention center that "me and music got married." After his release, he began playing on streetcorners, or in honkytonks ... any place he could hone his skills. What is something you have worked hard to be better at? teaching. I am always learning new things to be a better more effective teacher.
6) In the late 1920s, Louis led a jazz band called The Hot Five. His wife, Lil, believed he was too talented not to receive star billing. He just didn't feel ready. She went behind his back and convinced the management at Chicago's Dreamland Cafe to advertise: "The Hot Five, featuring Louis Armstrong: The World's Greatest Trumpet Player." It worked! At the end of the gig, Okeh Records signed him to a recording contract. Can you think of a time when, like Lil, you were glad you asked for forgiveness rather than permission? no, I may have done something like that, but I cannot think of anything. I am a rule follower, so I am not sure I would be brave enough to do something like that.
7) In 1932, the year this record was popular, the son of aviator Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped and killed. This famous case inspired Agatha Christie to write Murder on the Orient Express. Have you read the book? Seen the movie, the remake or the miniseries? I have seen the movie.
8) Another aviator was in the news in 1932. Amelia Earhart flew 14 hours from Newfoundland to Londonderry. What is the longest flight you've ever taken? I have never flown. I am not scared, we just never fly anywhere, we usually drive.
9) Random question: You have the opportunity to travel safely in a time machine. Would you go back to the past, into the future, or say, "no thanks, I'll stay in 2022?" I would not mind going into the past and spending some time with my family that has passed...my grandparents and my dad. I would also enjoy being with little Josh again, so maybe around the year 1999 or so. Maybe 2000. Josh was still a happy kid at that time. I would be afraid to go into the future. There would be no covid either in the past.
Saturday 9: All of Me (1932)
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.
1) In this song, Louis Armstrong calls his girl "baby." What's the last endearment someone used when speaking to you? I am not sure. It would eb something my mom called me probably. Maybe sweetie?
2) He sings that losing his love made him cry. Do you cry easily? SOOOOO easily. I can be very emotional at times and over silly things.
3) Louis was born in New Orleans, a city famous for music and cuisine. What's something you love about your home town? It is close to the lake and amusement parks.
4) At age 11, Louis unwisely fired a pistol during a New Year's Eve celebration and was sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile detention facility. It was there that he met music teacher Peter Davis, who believed in Louis and taught him to play cornet and bugle. Tell us about someone who believed in you and made your life better. I am not going to go into a huge story, but my dad always believed in me. He always told me to "do the best you can do...that is all you can do". It was great advice and very true.
5) Louis would say that arrest changed his life for the better because it was at the detention center that "me and music got married." After his release, he began playing on streetcorners, or in honkytonks ... any place he could hone his skills. What is something you have worked hard to be better at? teaching. I am always learning new things to be a better more effective teacher.
6) In the late 1920s, Louis led a jazz band called The Hot Five. His wife, Lil, believed he was too talented not to receive star billing. He just didn't feel ready. She went behind his back and convinced the management at Chicago's Dreamland Cafe to advertise: "The Hot Five, featuring Louis Armstrong: The World's Greatest Trumpet Player." It worked! At the end of the gig, Okeh Records signed him to a recording contract. Can you think of a time when, like Lil, you were glad you asked for forgiveness rather than permission? no, I may have done something like that, but I cannot think of anything. I am a rule follower, so I am not sure I would be brave enough to do something like that.
7) In 1932, the year this record was popular, the son of aviator Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped and killed. This famous case inspired Agatha Christie to write Murder on the Orient Express. Have you read the book? Seen the movie, the remake or the miniseries? I have seen the movie.
8) Another aviator was in the news in 1932. Amelia Earhart flew 14 hours from Newfoundland to Londonderry. What is the longest flight you've ever taken? I have never flown. I am not scared, we just never fly anywhere, we usually drive.
9) Random question: You have the opportunity to travel safely in a time machine. Would you go back to the past, into the future, or say, "no thanks, I'll stay in 2022?" I would not mind going into the past and spending some time with my family that has passed...my grandparents and my dad. I would also enjoy being with little Josh again, so maybe around the year 1999 or so. Maybe 2000. Josh was still a happy kid at that time. I would be afraid to go into the future. There would be no covid either in the past.
I think it's lovely that you'd like to go back and see "young Josh" again. I love my adult niece very much and I'm proud of her, but sometimes I miss the little girl she was.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you--the past wasn't so bad. And I'm sick of covid, and the state of things right now.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it would be nice to spend time with the family as it used to be.
ReplyDeleteI like your reasons for going back to the past. If I were going into the past, I'd want to go way far beyond when I was alive. I'm only visiting, after all . . . it's supposedly a safe time machine. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm not interested in going into the future--it would be kinda creepy, I think.
ReplyDeleteI thought about going back to see my sons again, but that would hurt too much, knowing what was ahead for them. that's why I'd like to go to the future.
ReplyDeleteNot far from my house is the is the oldest, continuously-operating amusement park in North America, it is more than 170 years ago and was opened in 1846!
ReplyDeleteNot it was bought up by a big amusement park company and it is all glitz, they tore down a lot of the old stuff but kept the wooden roller coaster.
Lori, I enjoyed your answers to another fun bunch of stolen questions!! Wishing you a good Sunday and week ahead!
ReplyDeleteI'm a big Cry baby, too. I cry at weddings and movies, the gammit!
ReplyDeleteAnd you had such a great dad! I remember you talking about him in past postings. To a little girl, a Daddy is like some sort of Sage and Protector.
Have a lovely week, Lori.