William Howard Taft Armstrong was born in Dayton, Tennessee, and grew up in… Read Full Bio ↴William Howard Taft Armstrong was born in Dayton, Tennessee, and grew up in LaFollette, Tennessee. As a young teenager he taught himself to play the fiddle, and joined a band led by Blind Roland Martin and his brother Carl. They toured the United States performing a wide range of music, from work songs and spirituals through popular Tin Pan Alley tunes and foreign language songs.
In 1929 he recorded with Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell. The following year he recorded in Knoxville for Vocalion Records, with his brother Roland Armstrong and Carl Martin, billed as the Tennessee Chocolate Drops. Adding guitarist Ted Bogan, the band toured as part of a medicine show and backed blues musicians such as Big Bill Broonzy and Memphis Minnie. As Martin, Bogan and Armstrong, they also performed at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago. In 1934 Armstrong and Bogan recorded "State Street Rag" and "Ted's Stomp" on the Bluebird label, with Armstrong using the stage name "Louie Bluie" which he had been given by a fan.
Although Armstrong's early recordings were in the style of country rags or blues, this was not his sole repertoire as a performer. According to his sometime accompanist, author Elijah Wald, his early theme song was the Gershwin standard "Lady Be Good", and his group's repertoire included a wide range of hit songs of the period, including Italian, Polish, Mexican and country songs which he would play to meet the varying demands of his audience.
After serving in World War II, Armstrong moved to Detroit and worked in the auto industry until 1971. With a revival of interest in oldtime African American music, Martin, Bogan and Armstrong reunited to perform. The band recorded, performed at clubs and festivals and went on a tour of South America sponsored by the U.S. State Department. They played together until Martin's death in 1979.
Armstrong was the subject of two documentaries, Louie Bluie and Sweet Old Song. He continued to perform with a younger generation of musicians, and released his first solo album Louie Bluie on Blue Suit Records in 1995, earning him a W.C. Handy Award nomination.
Along with his music, Armstrong was an expert painter, designing album covers for his group and occasionally for other artists, including Elijah Wald. He also made necklaces from beads, pipe cleaners and "found objects." He spoke several languages, and was a masterful performer who could keep an audience entranced with his stories as well as with his music.
He died in Boston, aged 94, following a heart attack.
In 1929 he recorded with Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell. The following year he recorded in Knoxville for Vocalion Records, with his brother Roland Armstrong and Carl Martin, billed as the Tennessee Chocolate Drops. Adding guitarist Ted Bogan, the band toured as part of a medicine show and backed blues musicians such as Big Bill Broonzy and Memphis Minnie. As Martin, Bogan and Armstrong, they also performed at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago. In 1934 Armstrong and Bogan recorded "State Street Rag" and "Ted's Stomp" on the Bluebird label, with Armstrong using the stage name "Louie Bluie" which he had been given by a fan.
Although Armstrong's early recordings were in the style of country rags or blues, this was not his sole repertoire as a performer. According to his sometime accompanist, author Elijah Wald, his early theme song was the Gershwin standard "Lady Be Good", and his group's repertoire included a wide range of hit songs of the period, including Italian, Polish, Mexican and country songs which he would play to meet the varying demands of his audience.
After serving in World War II, Armstrong moved to Detroit and worked in the auto industry until 1971. With a revival of interest in oldtime African American music, Martin, Bogan and Armstrong reunited to perform. The band recorded, performed at clubs and festivals and went on a tour of South America sponsored by the U.S. State Department. They played together until Martin's death in 1979.
Armstrong was the subject of two documentaries, Louie Bluie and Sweet Old Song. He continued to perform with a younger generation of musicians, and released his first solo album Louie Bluie on Blue Suit Records in 1995, earning him a W.C. Handy Award nomination.
Along with his music, Armstrong was an expert painter, designing album covers for his group and occasionally for other artists, including Elijah Wald. He also made necklaces from beads, pipe cleaners and "found objects." He spoke several languages, and was a masterful performer who could keep an audience entranced with his stories as well as with his music.
He died in Boston, aged 94, following a heart attack.
That'll Never Happen No More
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@stranger5314
I had tears in my eyes while I listen to your song, missing my dear partner who passed away in Jan, 2006.
We, as 2 middle aged male, were married at hospice, without families and our friends, just a day before he passed away by cancer.
It was a celebration of death, silence of grief and frustration.
Only the tears were soley standing against hostility of the world and reality.
No one approved our marriage except few gay friends. Our Families and straight friends were against our marriage and been hostile to us until the last minutes.
I am still living with the shadows of the grief and emotional scars.
A man loves another man is wrong and unacceptable ?
Do we have right to judge others and punish them with our narrow mind ? Then we should judge and punish every single human beings for their being different from us.
@probablynot1368
Only For a Short While
Oh, only for so short a while you
have loaned us to each other,
because we take form in your act of drawing us,
and we take life in your painting us,
and we breathe in your singing us.
But only for so short a while
have you loaned us to each other.
Because even a drawing cut in obsidian fades,
and the green feathers, the crown feathers,
of the Quetzal bird lose their color,
and even the sounds of the waterfall
die out in the dry season.
So, we too, because only for a short while
have you loaned us to each other.
- Aztec Indian Prayer
@sneakertoes1
I will play this for my husband of 62+ years. He now has advanced stage Parkinson's disease with dementia. This was our song, and I believe that he will respond. First I need to stop crying. [I called it!! He watched the whole time, and he even sang a bit! Thank you!!]
@amyshoemake
Your response to this made me cry. Such proof of how amazingly powerful the language of music is. Oh my heart...
@angies2389
i teared up reading this. I'm so glad your husband recognized your song. God Bless
@carolmueller3191
@joe mama John 5:28,29; Psalms 37:9-11,29!
@oldblackstock2499
May the Lord bless you both .
@rogindaUP
Thank you for sharing this testimony. What a blessing you shared with your husband, watching this clip! My beloved wife was diagnosed w/ PD about 6 years ago... She just turned 67; five days before retiring. Twenty two years ago we watched PD take my dear father; after 10+ years' of steady decline... So we both know what may lie ahead. But God is good. And we're alive today by His grace. May we all rejoice in the beauty of His love & moments of simple grace.
@annsmith1237
The Righteous Brothers would have been proud of Austin Brown’s rendition. He sings from the heart and touches us listeners. Amazingly beautiful
@raybieart2757
Je pense qu' ils auraient des difficultés car ils sont tous les deux sans doute au paradis.
Mais cette reprise est magnifique et vibrante d émotions.
@georgesand6958
Austin Brown, I listened to The Righteous Brothers & Elvis Presley last night, just to compare, & You Are Much Better Than Both!!! I partly feel so strongly about that, because a lot of noises bother me, & I don't feel so dumb for hurting myself when I listen to you sing. I enjoy it much more. If you could do a bunch of songs with Just Your Voice, I think you'll find a small but devoted market for it.
I was asking Jim Cramer, this stock guy, if he could buy the Taco Cabanas in San Antonio, so that I don't lose money on the stock, & I mentioned that one of the Taco Cabanas had seriously BAD, noisy music. I then mentioned that your music would be Much better. I think he already owns 2 restaurants. I don't know if he ever has live music in his restaurants, but you might ask, & just give him the link to your music. You can Google him on YouTube, & he has an email listed there. It's really to ask about stocks, but I'm sure he'd love your "Unchained Melody", & maybe Christmas music, at the least.
@megangwaltney4134
except for him crediting elvis?