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Willie The Weeper by Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
Artist Biography For Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
Louis Armstrong And His Hot Seven Was A Jazz Studio Group Organized To Make A Series Of Recordings For Okeh Records In Chicago Illinois In May 1927. Some Of The Personnel Also Recorded With Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five Including Johnny Dodds Clarinet Lil Armstrong Piano Johnny St. Cyr Banjo And Guitar . These Musicians Were Augmented By Johnny Dodds's Brother Baby Dodds Drums Pete Briggs Tuba And John Thomas Trombone Replacing Armstrong's Usual Trombonist Kid Ory Then Touring With King Oliver. Briggs And Thomas Were At The Time Working With Armstrong's Performing Group The Sunset Stompers.
In Five Sessions Between May 7 And May 14 1927 The Group Recorded At Least 12 Sides Including "Willie The Weeper " "Wild Man Blues " "Twelfth Street Rag " And "Potato Head Blues" Celebrated For Louis Armstrong's Stop-Time Solo .
Their Song "Melancholy Blues" Is Included On The Voyager Golden Record Attached To The Voyager Spacecraft.
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"Willie The Weeper" Is Reputed To Have Origins In Vaudeville At The Turn Of The Century. Notable Versions Have Been Recorded By King Oliver Previous To This One And Many Countless Versions After This Release. The Record Sold Extremely Well At The Time Of Release As Did Almost All Of The Hot 5 & 7's. Earlier Versions Of The Song Had Lyrics That Supposedly Dealt With The Popular Topic Of Opium Smoking And Opium Dens. Cab Calloway Would Make A Career Out Of The Subject Matter A Few Years Later. As Usual The True Topic Is Shrouded In The Hipster Vernacular Of The Subculture That Grew Around Non-Chinese Habitues Of The Illicits Of The Orient.
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Louis Armstrong And His Hot Seven Was A Jazz Studio Group Organized To Make A Series Of Recordings For Okeh Records In Chicago Illinois In May 1927. Some Of The Personnel Also Recorded With Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five Including Johnny Dodds Clarinet Lil Armstrong Piano Johnny St. Cyr Banjo And Guitar . These Musicians Were Augmented By Johnny Dodds's Brother Baby Dodds Drums Pete Briggs Tuba And John Thomas Trombone Replacing Armstrong's Usual Trombonist Kid Ory Then Touring With King Oliver. Briggs And Thomas Were At The Time Working With Armstrong's Performing Group The Sunset Stompers.
In Five Sessions Between May 7 And May 14 1927 The Group Recorded At Least 12 Sides Including "Willie The Weeper " "Wild Man Blues " "Twelfth Street Rag " And "Potato Head Blues" Celebrated For Louis Armstrong's Stop-Time Solo .
Their Song "Melancholy Blues" Is Included On The Voyager Golden Record Attached To The Voyager Spacecraft. read less
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In Five Sessions Between May 7 And May 14 1927 The Group Recorded At Least 12 Sides Including "Willie The Weeper " "Wild Man Blues " "Twelfth Street Rag " And "Potato Head Blues" Celebrated For Louis Armstrong's Stop-Time Solo .
Their Song "Melancholy Blues" Is Included On The Voyager Golden Record Attached To The Voyager Spacecraft. read less
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"Willie the Weeper" is reputed to have origins in vaudeville at the turn of the century. Notable versions have been recorded by King Oliver previous to this one, and many countless versions after this release. The record sold extremely well at the time of release, as did almost all of the Hot 5 & 7's.
Earlier versions of the song had lyrics that supposedly dealt with the popular topic of opium smoking and opium dens. Cab Calloway would make a career out of the subject matter a few years later. As usual, the true topic is shrouded in the hipster vernacular of the subculture that grew around non-Chinese habitues of the illicits of the Orient. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.