Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an inventive trumpet and cornet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance. With his instantly-recognizable gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also skilled at scat singing (vocalizing using sounds and syllables instead of actual lyrics).
Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extends well beyond jazz music, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general. Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over", whose skin-color was secondary to his music in an America that was severely racially divided. He rarely publicly politicized his race, often to the dismay of fellow African-Americans, but took a well-publicized stand for desegregation during the Little Rock Crisis. His artistry and personality allowed him socially acceptable access to the upper echelons of American society that were highly restricted for a black man.
Armstrong was born and brought up in New Orleans, a culturally diverse town with a unique musical mix of creole, ragtime, marching bands, and blues. Although from an early age he was able to play music professionally, he didn't travel far from New Orleans until 1922, when he went to Chicago to join his mentor, King Oliver. Oliver's band played primitive jazz, a hotter style of ragtime, with looser rhythms and more improvisation, and Armstrong's role was mostly backing. Slow to promote himself, he was eventually persuaded by his wife Lil Hardin to leave Oliver, and In 1924 he went to New York to join the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra. At the time, there were a few other artists using the rhythmic innovations of the New Orleans style, but none did it with the energy and brilliance of Armstrong, and he quickly became a sensation among New York musicians. Back in Chicago in 1925, he made his first recordings with his own group, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, and these became not only popular hits but also models for the first generation of jazz musicians, trumpeters or otherwise.
Other hits followed through the twenties and thirties, as well as troubles: crooked managers, lip injuries, mob entanglements, failed big-band ventures. As jazz styles changed, though, musical purists never lost any respect for him -- although they were sometimes irritated by his hammy onstage persona. Around the late forties, with the help of a good manager, Armstrong's business affairs finally stablilized, and he began to be seen as an elder statesman of American popular entertainment, appearing in Hollywood films, touring Asia and Europe, and dislodging The Beatles from the number-one position with Hello Dolly". Today many people may know him as a singer (a good one), but as Miles Davis said: “You can’t play nothing on modern trumpet that doesn’t come from him."
The 62-year-old Armstrong became the oldest act to top the US charts when "Hello Dolly" reached #1 in 1964. Four years later Satchmo also became the oldest artist to record a UK #1, when "What a Wonderful World" hit the top spot.
Baby Won't You Please Come Home
Louis Armstrong Lyrics
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I'd give the world if I could only
Make you understand
It truly would be grand
I'm gonna telephone my baby
Ask him won't you please come home
Oh, when you gone
I'm worried all day long
Baby, won't you please come home
Baby, won't you please come home
I have tried in vain
Nevermore to call your name
When you left you broke my heart
That will never make us part
Every hour in the day
You will hear me say
Baby, won't you please come home
I mean, baby, won't you please come home
Baby, won't you please come home
'Cause your mama's all alone
I have tried in vain
Nevermore to call your name
When you left you broke my heart
That will never make us part
Landlord's gettin' worse
I gotta move May the first
Baby, won't you please come home
I need money
Baby, won't you please come home
The song "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" is a classic blues tune originally written by Charles Warfield and Clarence Williams in 1919. In Louis Armstrong And The All Stars's version, the lyrics express the singer's feelings of loneliness and longing for his lover to come back to him. The first two lines set the tone for the song with the vocalist lamenting about his sadness and willingness to do anything to make his lover understand how he feels.
As the song progresses, the artist expresses his desire to contact his lover and ask her to come home, conveying how much he misses her companionship. The repetition of the plea "baby won't you please come home" throughout the song emphasizes the heartbreak and loneliness that the singer is experiencing. Additionally, the song touches upon the financial troubles that the singer is dealing with, further emphasizing his desperation for his loved one's return.
Overall, "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" is a timeless classic that perfectly captures the essence of the blues. The song portrays a longing for love, heartbreak, and the despair of loneliness.
Line by Line Meaning
I've got the blues, I feel so lonely
I am feeling sad and lonely.
I'd give the world if I could only / Make you understand / It truly would be grand
I am willing to do anything to make you understand how I feel because it would be wonderful.
I'm gonna telephone my baby / Ask him won't you please come home
I am planning on calling my baby, asking them to come back home.
Oh, when you gone / I'm worried all day long
I am worried all day long when you are not here.
Baby, won't you please come home / Baby, won't you please come home / I have tried in vain / Nevermore to call your name
I have tried and failed to reach you, please come back home.
When you left you broke my heart / That will never make us part
Your departure has hurt me deeply, but it will never cause us to permanently part.
Every hour in the day / You will hear me say / Baby, won't you please come home
I will keep asking you to come back home every hour of every day.
Baby, won't you please come home / 'Cause your mama's all alone
Your mother is all alone without you, please come back home.
Landlord's gettin' worse / I gotta move May the first / Baby, won't you please come home
My landlord is becoming unbearable, I have to move on May first, please come back home.
I need money / Baby, won't you please come home
I need your support, please come back home.
Lyrics © Kanjian Music, BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Royalty Network, Peermusic Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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