[Dixielandjazz] what-louis-armstrong-taught-egypt-and-middle-east-about-itself

[Marek Boym]

A great story, Robert!
I have forwarded it to "tout le monde."
Cheers

On 21 June 2015 at 03:28, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote:

> ONE OF THE LOUIS SOLOS NOT TO BE MISSED
>
> Snatch of article here, link to full thing below:
>
>
> >>For a while, Armstrong ignored the rumours, but he drew the line
> when Nasser himself added his weight to the senseless reports. In
> 1960, the Egyptian president went further and believed that one of
> Armstrong’s
> “Scat singing” recordings was used by the artist to pass secrets during his
> first 1959 tour of the Middle East. An outraged Armstrong, in Boston at
> the time,
> mailed Nasser a copy of the suspected recording, with a note rebutting the
> accusations:
>
> “It’s all Greek to me. They claimed all that junk because I played in
> Israel. I don’t have to be a spy to earn a living. I have enough money
> blowing
> the horn and I have a very happy life doing it. Why don’t you tell these
> people
> who are spreading all this stuff to come around. I’ll tell them a few good
> traveling salesman jokes.”  <<
>
>
> the full thing is at the link below --
>
> unfortunately the title is far too optimistic !!!
>
> RobertnR. Calder
>
>
>
> https://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/amro-ali/what-louis-armstrong-taught-egypt-and-middle-east-about-itself
>