[Dixielandjazz] Louis Armstrong birthday

[Rebecca Thompson]

At one of the seminars in New Orleans, the thought was given that Louis
wanted to join the army, so gave himself the extra year to be old enough.
He failed the physical, at any rate.

Rebecca Thompson
Flower Mound, TX

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Louis knew when his real birthday was. He put August 4 on the form he filled
out when he applied for a social security card. He did make himself a year
older than he really was, however, probably for a work-related reason. 


Anyone can find his social security application on the internet. 
I gave a copy of this application to a musician friend in about 2001. He
wrote an article about it which was published, with a photo of the
application, in the Mississippi Rag, acknowledging me as the finder. 
-- Rae Ann 


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