Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington "In A Mellow Tone" on The Ed Sullivan Show

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Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington "In A Mellow Tone" on The Ed Sullivan Show

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Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington "In A Mellow Tone" on The Ed Sullivan Show, December 17, 1961. Subscribe now to never miss an update: ume.lnk.to/EdSullivanSubscribe
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@bobtaylor170 3 жыл бұрын

I pity people - and it's the vast majority of Americans - who don't know this exists, that these greatest of American musicians ever even lived. What a gift having this on video is.

@bobtaylor170 3 жыл бұрын

@@BarracusObamus , you'd be shocked by how few people would. There is a guy in my church who is a 24 year old doctoral student in chemistry at Notre Dame. He's not just a science nerd, either. He had never heard of Lucille Ball when I mentioned her in conversation with him a few weeks ago.

@jimmarchman 3 жыл бұрын

I'm an old white guy now and I tried desperately to play piano for ten years when I was young. Later I learned I was terrible at math beyond basic algebra and basic geometry. It made me feel better (and more in awe) of musicians as its all mathematics. God bless these fellows for sharing their talents with the rest of us.

@steveknows62 3 жыл бұрын

@@bobtaylor170 I agree with you. The dumbing down of the culture is pretty much complete. But what's worse is that the lessons of WW2 have also been relegated to ancient history, thus setting the stage for a repeat of it.

@koko-pu5vn 2 жыл бұрын

Amen brother!!

@podulox 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up with this kind of thing, on tape, on long journeys in the car... Now I have good speakers, mixer et - Input/output is sorted... Now it's the recordings that let ALL of us down :( THANK Dog FOR SKA! At least Ska gets redone regularly... I DARE YOU - REDO BIGBAND!!! (Yes, you...)

@bobjames5264 Жыл бұрын

This is SOLID GOLD!! As soon as my 84-year-old father heard the trumpet from upstairs, he asked, “Is that Satchmo??!!” Respect!!

@TomSpeaks-vw1zp 22 күн бұрын

Back when you knew who the greats were with their first note.❤

@EnnioDiGirolamo-b8h 5 күн бұрын

❤

@stenekegren9395 3 жыл бұрын

It's like watching Beethoven and Mozart performing together on the same stage!

@IgorDmitrievpiano 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, yes! That's right!

@johnmc3862 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, 2 of the big 5 on one stage! Coltrane, Davis and Parker being the others.

@gwmod66 2 жыл бұрын

Amen!!!

@clemleg123 Жыл бұрын

@@johnmc3862 how about fats waller?

@SELMER1947 Жыл бұрын

@@clemleg123 A giant too

@fluffyshanks 2 жыл бұрын

These guys didn’t play music. They WERE music.

@andrewcharley1893 3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 beautiful statement!!!!!!!!

@mailman2332 2 ай бұрын

I'm stealing that line

@paulweber3962 Жыл бұрын

Can you imagine what a ticket would cost to see these two legends today???

@joanneevans3986 27 күн бұрын

Sure,I couldn't afford it!!!😮😅

@TomSpeaks-vw1zp 22 күн бұрын

Whatever the price of getting into Heaven would be.

@chuckwagon5518 Жыл бұрын

Both Duke and Louis are superstars, yet they give the other artists their own solos! Very classy!

@stevensmileyprod 10 ай бұрын

Well yeah, that's what Duke Ellington is all about. He writes specifically for those in his band and how they play. He gives everyone a piece of the action.

@Jakal-pw8yq 2 жыл бұрын

When I was just a child in the late 50s early 1960s my mom had a huge record collection that consisted of Duke ellington, Louis armstrong, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan and the list went on and on and on. She gave me a better musical education than I ever got in college and is the reason why I became a musician 55 years ago! Rest in peace mom and thanks for the memories! ❤

@andrewhughes328 2 жыл бұрын

Mums know best 🥰

@jamesrcox8735 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like mama knew what she was doing. Good for you!

@screamingtima1318 Жыл бұрын

Amazing mom you had, but you know that. Lucky you. ❤

@IMCcanTWEESTED Жыл бұрын

I hear that. My dad took my brother an I to a Harlem Globe Trotters basketball game at Southwestern College in Point Loma in 1962. I was 8. Cab Calloway came out to mid court for halftime and accompanied himself on this beat up electric piano to "Minnie the Moocher." I knew that song from my mom's record collection and it was clear that most the crowd was familiar with the song as well. While all the other kids flooded the court after the game to get their favorite Globe Trotter's autographs. I spotted Cab over at the Globe Trotter's bench and went over to tell him how much I enjoyed his song. He flashed that world famous smile of his at me and enthusiastically shook my hand and asked me if I had heard his music before. I shook my head in the affirmative-too star-struck to say anything. I finally mustered the strength to say, "My mom has your record and I listen to it all the time." He put a hand on my shoulder and told me, "thank your mom for sharing my music with you." That was 60 years ago and I feel so blessed and privileged to have had that moment with a Cotton Club legend. Thank you, mom. I sure miss you.

@xehno-9464 Жыл бұрын

Sigma male

@Ryan-on5on Жыл бұрын

The Duke's erudite, sophisticated, cerebral, and wholly urbane style married with the exuberant, joyous, lyrical, jaunty gumbo tones of Louis Armstrong = an unlikely match made in heaven!

@Gosende1705 Жыл бұрын

For me Louis and Duke are the two biggest names in the jazz history. This presentation is fantastic!

@gerarddelgrande 10 ай бұрын

Ok, but don't forget the outstanding Count and Oscar !! Cheers !😀

@bernardflegar8017 3 жыл бұрын

Trummy Young (tb), Joe Darensbourg (cl), Billy Cronk (b), Danny Barcelona (dr)

@petermautner7052 3 жыл бұрын

Never scene before

@donnscottshetler 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@swordfish52 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bernard ...

@bernardflegar8017 3 жыл бұрын

@@swordfish52 My pleasure!

@SteveCournane Жыл бұрын

So was that Louis' band at the time? Wish I could see them a little better. Do you have a source to that info? Would really appreciate

@williamdane4194 3 жыл бұрын

Two gentlemen of talent! What a scene of them playing together. Thank you.

@Gosende1705 Жыл бұрын

I'm from Brazil,and in my country the majority of the people don't know that Heitor Vila Lobos exist, imagine these international geniuses.

@markeastman1503 2 жыл бұрын

Hey I'm 61 and I can remember tuning my transistor radio to the station playing this

@WPM_in_ATL 3 жыл бұрын

Don't know if it was Sullivan or CBS that kept these beautiful videotapes...but I am grateful nonetheless.

@fromthesidelines 4 ай бұрын

CBS certainly didn't. They'd save a few tapes here and there- but their ultimate goal was to either "wipe" them for future use......or toss them out. It was Ed (and his son-in-law Bob Precht) who saved the bulk of his tapes and kinescopes, and kept them "in storage".

@WPM_in_ATL 4 ай бұрын

@@fromthesidelines Similar to what I understood Johnny Carson did (keep the tapes).

@fromthesidelines 4 ай бұрын

He only kept *his* tapes- the ones he produced for NBC- from 1972 on. Many of the 1962-'72 telecasts were either "wiped" or tossed out by NBC.

@jackgates6949 3 жыл бұрын

Not only a classic, but historic! Thanks for uploading!

@johnsolis7631 11 ай бұрын

Louis Armstrong the greatest jazz musician that ever lived.

@KMO325 3 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday to the Duke, DC represent!

@justindevito6251 3 жыл бұрын

Respect

@kevinwaters5872 8 ай бұрын

From the people who created modern American music. Fantastic.

@NjonjoNdehi 2 жыл бұрын

Louis Armstrong toured Africa in 1960. He performed in Kenya, Congo, Nigeria, and Ghana.

@oscargaliano 11 ай бұрын

Back when the US had classy art to offer. These both Kings.

@mickdevlin 2 жыл бұрын

Two of the greatest modernists of the 20th century together. Louis? simply the greatest. Dook? The greatest songwriter of the last hundred years. And how do you get look like Duke Ellington? The coolest man on the fucking planet.

@biff9999 3 жыл бұрын

Jazz gods. Everything is so good about this, you almost start crying.

@zepear4848 9 ай бұрын

this is the the best thing I'VE EVER SEEN

@fan5407 Жыл бұрын

This is unbelievably good music.

@mr.incognito6126 Жыл бұрын

yes it is top jazz

@brucekuehn4031 2 жыл бұрын

This show would have come after Duke (born in 1899) and Louis (born in 1901) recorded in a studio together for the first time on April 3 and 4, 1961. With Duke at the piano and Louis and his All Stars, they played 17 Ellington songs that were released in ‘61 on two record albums.

@solomonescobar8911 Жыл бұрын

Hello Welcome to another video an how to get in love with jazz

@Ayvaliklis 6 ай бұрын

I genuinely feel sorry for people that have never heard what the best of music has to offer. Jazz is the king, Jazz is the thing that folks, dig, mooost!

@u4riahsc 2 жыл бұрын

I watched The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday nights growing up. It was fabulous seeing all these incredible artists. So nice to watch these videos now that I’m pushing 70.

@michaelwawryk4875 Жыл бұрын

A Sunday morning waking up at the crack of dawn. You’re favorite beer in hand and a Newport, and a shot of whiskey on the side.

@julissaalmodovar2103 2 жыл бұрын

I'm only 22 🤦 dis my shit 💯

@BobGeogeo Жыл бұрын

Geniuses together.

@robertlennon9531 3 жыл бұрын

What a lucky audience, better times for sure 👍 👏

@mitcharett2586 3 жыл бұрын

Not for Black Americans. These great musicians lived most of their lives under segregation laws & Jim Crow conditions.

@waldolydecker8118 2 жыл бұрын

@@mitcharett2586 - many of them lived their ENTIRE lives under that backwardsness...in fact, it was instrumental in killing many of them prematurely - if not just from the 24/7 mental fatigue of constantly having to battle a rigged system designed specifically to keep them "in their place."

@mitcharett2586 2 жыл бұрын

@@waldolydecker8118 True. They lived their lives, though, and had some good times. But they never got the credit & recognition that they deserved. Or the money that they deserved for doing their thing. And much of America, especially White America, missed out on their brilliance, style, and music.Racism costs us all.

@yami1727 2 жыл бұрын

yeah for whites only

@robertlennon9531 2 жыл бұрын

It's funny a not so talented white man made sure these black artists were seen and heard all across America, and yet there is still a divide. I guess some people will never move on from a bad time and enjoy life, it's very short.

@Michael-et2uj 10 ай бұрын

Oddly enough, the first time I ever heard this song was as the bumper music at the very beginning of the Howard Stern show in the early 1990s.

@sergiysvirkov4669 2 жыл бұрын

My dear Duke and Louis! You've made a great tandem. I am proud of both of you. It's a shame that in my time there are no such wonderful performers, but there is one one-day pop. You are names for all time. And to you, Duke, I personally say. If I were Frank Sinatra's contemporary, I would like to sing a duet with him, accompanied by your jazz band, at least a jazz version of the song "Sunny", written by Bobby Habb.

@NateInDC Жыл бұрын

Man this is awesome, Louis Armstrong is really enjoying himself watching the other solos

@MagicalZach Жыл бұрын

Feeling blessed to watch this. Pure talent. Real musicians

@jasonharris836 2 жыл бұрын

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am going to show this to my students so they can see these great musical giants performing together.

@Kw1161 3 жыл бұрын

Jazz Perfection!😀

@viswanadhamveryverynicesar1344 Жыл бұрын

A new form of music called JAZZ was gieven to the world by AFRO MASTERS, I LIVE IN INDIA FROM MY TENTH STANDARD ONWARDS I USE TO LISTEN THE JAZZ HOUR IN VOICE OF AMERICA. NOW I AM 67 YEARS. STILL GOT MANY JAZZ GRATES.

@miguelsinagra3257 3 жыл бұрын

Duke & Satchmo , the Best of the World . Thanks

@jeremyraglin8170 2 жыл бұрын

I always love watching Louies face because it shows how truly passionate he was about the music :)

@u4riahsc 2 жыл бұрын

I always loved his big smile.

@aleksanderfinstad5785 Жыл бұрын

Now, this is wonderfull Jazz! ❤

@corkpop8401 Жыл бұрын

This is huge. I’m not sure if we even deserve it

@clivem24 Жыл бұрын

Its like watching Yoda and Obi-wan playing together ! All that's missing now is the great lady Ella to sing along!

@pakawanmalayavech101 Жыл бұрын

It’s so beautiful and amazing performances.

@tmanjivo 2 жыл бұрын

Great masters of the jazz, both their legacies are well entrenched

@WPM_in_ATL 4 ай бұрын

I was in diapers when this show aired...but look at Ed...he loved Jazz!

@carlericpickett597 Жыл бұрын

Greatest Jazz session ever recorded. R.I.P. Gang.

@normanlefkowitz5197 Жыл бұрын

They were mountains of greatness.

@katarratube Жыл бұрын

Crazy historic moment right here…

@24sweetroller7 3 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing a duet from them that came out in the late 40's, Drop Me Off in Harlem. This had to be quite a treat for the audience on The Ed Sullivan Show back in 1961. Thanks for sharing!

@et1908 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing....I love this era...so pure in swing with greatest talents like them. It really existed.

@kamiwammy7406 3 жыл бұрын

Absolute talent. Dont make them like this anymore. Thank you! Xxx

@RussianDrummer Жыл бұрын

This is a real America !

@SELMER1947 2 жыл бұрын

You will never watch 2 giants like them, NEVER !

@kevincaldwell4707 2 жыл бұрын

Two of the most classic jazz men ever!!

@BarryArgyle Жыл бұрын

Louie had incredible range. Rarely spoken of.. but trumpeters know.. 🎺

@alejandromorenoc3194 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful execution!! Just like an addition of music of excellence plus New Orleans Era Band.

@kindell1 Жыл бұрын

Two distinguished and classy Black men ❤

@jamesdaviddupre99 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! I never saw Duke in person, but Pops came back to our hometown New Orleans a few times before he passed. Two musical geniuses on one stage. Too short, but quite telling.

@Melbournelost66 3 ай бұрын

I'm Australian, and my parents loved Louie Amstrong and Duke. So we got plenty of this growing up amongst various types of music

@grantkoeller8911 2 жыл бұрын

Louis Armstrong's solo is perfect!!

@ssouud 2 жыл бұрын

Treasure of a performance. Thanks for sharing

@andrewdressler6173 3 жыл бұрын

2 genuine geniuses and greats.

@cristiandone5749 2 жыл бұрын

The respect from Sullivan to these musicians.. Wow

@howardlevin2753 3 жыл бұрын

Duke and Pops are both on a list I indulgently put together of posthumous Kennedy Center Honors, our knighthood. Both fell a few years short of even getting a nod.

@muhamed-nurnordien2771 10 ай бұрын

look @ the Duke… just fiddling and playing with the Piano ! Unbelievable talent !

@lehnrik 2 жыл бұрын

Louis' solos are poems.

@Good_BorisAV Жыл бұрын

_Hello!_ _Thank you for the provided music!_

@pierrenhy3835 Жыл бұрын

Quel plaisir de voir le duke jouer

@andreagargiulo6230 3 жыл бұрын

The great reunion👍❤❤

@jj-cp3yp Жыл бұрын

Louis Armstrong is a very talented singer and he has this magical voice and lyrics that I love ❤️ his song will never be forgotten.. So tell me how long have you been listening to Armstrong song?

@gloriamosure9184 3 жыл бұрын

What a joy to listen to! Perfection!

@jj-cp3yp Жыл бұрын

Louis Armstrong is a very talented singer and he has this magical voice and lyrics that I love ❤️ his song will never be forgotten 🥰.. How long have you been listening to Armstrong song??

@user-ku7ur6wc2b Жыл бұрын

True musicians

@og4617 Жыл бұрын

The Gods😭

@postatility9703 2 жыл бұрын

Reason #10,000,000,000 to love KZfaq:This.Oh,and thanks to you ,Bernard!

@ajlmusic 5 ай бұрын

This is magical. Pure genius for us to enjoy! ❤

@margarinetaintedgreen8140 11 ай бұрын

Wow. That’s the most I can muster.

@canadacalling6892 3 жыл бұрын

always loved Louis awesome trumpet talent. Bruce

@garyoak7620 Жыл бұрын

two legend of music awesome !

@mcdonaldmlengah3343 2 жыл бұрын

Greatest of all times🔥🔥

@les13robinson 2 жыл бұрын

Truly a Gift!

@DanPurdy1 2 жыл бұрын

Back when, I would have thought more of the Duke as a jazz musician. I didn’t realize that Louis was from the original generation of jazz musicians.

@julissaalmodovar2103 2 жыл бұрын

Yessss I love em both 🖤😫😫

@jj-cp3yp Жыл бұрын

Louis Armstrong is a very talented singer and he has this magical voice and lyrics that I love ❤️ his songs will never be forgotten... How long have you been listening to Armstrong song?

@ratso69ful81 2 жыл бұрын

Hats off to Ed Sullivan for giving these two mega talents a huge forum to perform on when most white entertainment shows wouldn't .... This is KZfaq gold!!!

@robertlepper5460 2 жыл бұрын

Pity he can't pronounce one of their names correctly. Racist jerk

@stefanodipietro2583 3 жыл бұрын

the best of the best!! meraviglioso

@nandofigueira2005 11 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

@connyliebnitz5667 3 жыл бұрын

The best Music wow 💕💕

@pattieshepphard3379 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful talent!!!!

@jj-cp3yp Жыл бұрын

Louis Armstrong is a very talented singer and he has this magical voice and lyrics that I love ❤️, his song will never be forgotten... How long have you been listening to Armstrong?