[Dixielandjazz] Armstrong Cash

[David Richoux]

Bob,
According to satchmo.net you are correct!

http://www.satchmo.net/bio/timeline/bio-70.shtml
> 1971
> Appears on many television shows, including The David Frost Show,  
> The Dick Cavett Show, The Tonight Show, and a television special  
> with Pearl Bailey. Records the poem "The Night Before Christmas" in  
> the den of his Corona home. (It becomes his last commercial  
> recording.) Performs for two weeks in the Empire Room of the  
> Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City.
> 6 July 1971
> Passes away in his sleep at his home in Corona.

  maybe Wolfe meant the Johnny Cash Shop appearance was the last  
recorded TV performance that has survived? ( I read recently that  
many priceless moments of TV history were recorded over - video tape  
was expensive...)

Dave Richoux

On Dec 4, 2006, at 9:17 PM, Robert S. Ringwald wrote:

> While the article says that the session with Johnny Cash was  
> Armstrong's
> last recording, I have understood that his last recording was  
> reading The
> Night Before Christmas for the cigarette company.  I believe it was  
> released
> on a flimsy paper 45 type record.
>
> I used to close my Christmas radio show with it every year when I  
> lived in
> Los Angeles.
>
>
> --Bob Ringwald K6YBV