How Louis Armstrong Became The First Black Pop Star

407.785 - 430.203 Ricky Riccardi

It's kind of gibberish, but in my mind at that point, he might've dropped the lyrics and he didn't quite know what to do next. But this whole concept of using his voice like an instrument is, People remember that he was doing that in his vocal quartet when he was 11, 12 years old. One musician, Norman Mason, remembered him doing that on the riverboats with Fate Marable in 1920.