How Louis Armstrong Became The First Black Pop Star

1022.656 - 1043.888 Ricky Riccardi

And that's why I think when you read Armstrong's second autobiography, Satchman, My Life in New Orleans, it ends with, with him leaving New Orleans and joining King Oliver, because I think in his mind that was the climax. Everything that followed was gravy because he had survived this childhood that if it was a Hollywood film, somebody would say, well, this is cliche. This is rags to riches.