Saturday 9: All of Me (1932)

 

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1) In this song, Louis Armstrong calls his girl "baby." What's the last endearment someone used when speaking to you?  

Some one called me "Sweetheart".  I think it was an Italian guy, maybe a God Father? ... lol (just kidding about who it was) . 

 

2) He sings that losing his love made him cry. Do you cry easily?

I can't help crying a lot.  It's just the way it is. So, Yes, you could say that I cry easily.

 

3) Louis was born in New Orleans, a city famous for music and cuisine. What's something you love about your home town?

I'm a war baby, born on a farm, so I really don't have a hometown, though I was conceived in Hollywood, California. Does that count?

The long explanation: 

When Dad went to intensive training for Signal Corps after boot camp. This was because he spoke four languages and they needed guys with this skills.  The signal corps did "behind enemy lines" sorts of things, and so.....

my Mom moved back home. 

 

I was born on her parent's farm.  She didn't leave there until I was old enough to travel

(a couple of months) whereupon we rejoined Dad at his army camp, to live on base with him in Louisiana where he was being trained. 

They lived on an army base when I was tiny, and when he shipped out for overseas, she went back home to her parent's farm in Ohio, where I had been born about 7 months earlier.   

 
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. 18 MONTHS?!? Geeze!  At least something excellent came of it. But that was sheer good luck. God Bless Peter Davis!

 

As to the question:  

I have to say my three Language teachers in High School took a special interest in me, and then again in college, this was taken up by my English Lit prof, Western Civ prof, and my Geology Prof.  They all had a big, positive effect on my life.  They seemed to know just how poor my family was, and they treated me to a confidence in myself that I'd never had before. 

 

An Aside:  I mean my little car was "repoed" from the parking lot at college!  Sheesh! I was talking over a paper with my teacher at the time and spotted them towing my car!  I said, "I have to get my books out of the trunk, Prof R!" 

How embarrassing was that?  Dad would get me a vehicle as a "gift", and then either sell it to someone else, or stop paying for it after presenting it to me.  Well. you get the picture. If that was the worst thing he ever did to his kids, it would actually be funny.

 

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 street corners, or in honky tonks ... any place he could hone his skills. What is something you have worked hard to be better at?  Forgiving, both myself and other people, and also learning to love unconditionally.

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?  I had a parental unit who was hyper controlling.  I'm glad that I ignored him and kept seeing my husband-to-be when he and I first had met. 

Not to put too fine a point on my life up until then, my dad was a total bastard.  

Mom said it wasn't the war that did it, as he'd been that way before... *Zippi shoots down that canard*

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 just finished re-reading the book, and I've seen the movie a couple of times.  I want to see the one with David Suchet in it, again. Also....I found the remake the other day, and yes, I'm thinking of watching it, too.  However, I'm not sure about the actor playing Poirot. K. Branagh is a great actor but can he be as good as David Suchet.  We'll see, won't we?!

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? 

The longest one has to be the one to Denver one year. I flew out to see hubby when he was in school in Colorado.

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?"

A few years ago I'd have said into the past.  I know my daughter's life could have been spared .. I am not interested in the future.. but, now, for either case... I say.... "Let it Be" 

 

I'm certain, without a shadow of doubt in my head, that my sweet girl dwells in the House of the Lord, and that she is happy.

 

And yes, for the record, I sniffled and wiped my eyes all the way through this... 

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Thank you Sam!  I look forward to this every week!

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