Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)

Louis Armstrong: Self

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• Louis Armstrong : I was at a little Italian trumpet player's house, and his mother was a Countess, well they was makin' that spaghetti and we was wailin', you know. In this big ol' dinin' room they had this table and up in the ceilin' they had Mark Anthony and Cleo and all the cats that they painted. Lookin' down on you as if to say, "Man, you shore can eat!"

  [laughs] 

  Louis Armstrong : Well, we have a lot of fun travelin', man.

• Louis Armstrong : I saw the Pope too, you know. And he's a fine little fella, you know. He was tickled to death to know that the Italian people enjoyed our music and he could speak on any subject, in all kind of languages, you know. So, he - he's alright man, he asked me, "You got any children?", you know. I said, well, "No, Daddy, but we still wailin'." He say - He said, "But, I'm going to pray for you. I'm going to pray for you."

  [laughs] 

• Louis Armstrong : [singing]  Throw away your troubles, Dream a dream of me, Dream a dream of me...