Saturday 9

 

All of Me

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love to answer the questions, however, and here is today's questions!

Saturday 9: All of Me (1932)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this song, Louis Armstrong calls his girl "baby." What's the last endearment someone used when speaking to you?

In my family we don't tend to use terms of endearment.  We do tell each other that we love each other, but we don't use words like "sweetie" or "dear" or "honey"  -- especially "honey", because  I have a sister named Honey.

 

2) He sings that losing his love made him cry. Do you cry easily?

I get weepy at weird times.

 

3) Louis was born in New Orleans, a city famous for music and cuisine. What's something you love about your home town?

I live in a suburb of NYC,  I like living so close to NYC without actually living in the city.

 
4) At age 11, Louis unwisely fired a pistol during a New Year's Eve celebration and was sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile detention facility. It was there that he met music teacher Peter Davis, who believed in Louis and taught him to play cornet and bugle. Tell us about someone who believed in you and made your life better.

My parents always had my back and always encouraged me to reach for my goals.

 

5) Louis would say that arrest changed his life for the better because it was at the detention center that "me and music got married." After his release, he began playing on streetcorners, or in honkytonks ... any place he could hone his skills. What is something you have worked hard to be better at?

I could talk about my professional skills, but that would be boring. I'm not an artist or a musician.  But I have been working on Spanish.  I studied the language in high school and college and was fairly fluent, but I have lost a lot of what I knew, and I'm working on getting it back.

6) In the late 1920s, Louis led a jazz band called The Hot Five. His wife, Lil, believed he was too talented not to receive star billing. He just didn't feel ready. She went behind his back and convinced the management at Chicago's Dreamland Cafe to advertise: "The Hot Five, featuring Louis Armstrong: The World's Greatest Trumpet Player." It worked! At the end of the gig, Okeh Records signed him to a recording contract. Can you think of a time when, like Lil, you were glad you asked for forgiveness rather than permission?

Hmm, I'll have to think about that one.

7) In 1932, the year this record was popular, the son of aviator Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped and killed. This famous case inspired Agatha Christie to write Murder on the Orient Express. Have you read the book? Seen the movie, the remake or the miniseries?

All except the mini series.

8) Another aviator was in the news in 1932. Amelia Earhart flew 14 hours from Newfoundland to Londonderry. What is the longest flight you've ever taken?

NY to San Diego and back again.  

9) Random question: You have the opportunity to travel safely in a time machine. Would you go back to the past, into the future, or say, "no thanks, I'll stay in 2022?"

I love it when you ask the wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff. Time travel does not give me a headache...

I majored in history and I am a huge fan of science fiction.  When do we leave?
 

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