Louis Louis Series 1 Traditional Geocache
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This cache is to introduce you to a few famous Louis’ in history.
This particular cache is about Louis Armstrong and Louis Prima,
both great musicians of jazz and swing music. Here’s a very brief
amount of info regarding both Louis’. Hope you’ll enjoy this
series!
Louis Armstrong was born in one of the poorest sections of New
Orleans on Aug. 4, 1901. He helped support his mother and sister by
working every type of job there was, including going out on street
corners at night to sing for coins. At age 7, he bought his first
real horn--a cornet. When Armstrong was 11 years old, juvenile
court sent him to the Jones Home for Colored Waifs for firing a
pistol on New Year's Eve. While there, he had his first formal
music lessons and played in the home's brass band. After about 18
months he was released. He listened to older musicians every chance
he got, learning from Bunk Johnson, Buddy Petit, and above all Joe
"King" Oliver, who acted as a mentor and almost a father figure to
the young Armstrong. From then on, he largely supported himself as
a musician, playing with pick-up bands and in small clubs. He and a
handful of noted musicians in New Orleans were credited for
creating a unique and widely popular new band music out of blues
and ragtime. Armstrong is considered to have essentially invented
jazz singing. He had an extremely distinctive gravelly voice, which
he deployed with great dexterity as an improviser, bending the
lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. His amazing
technical abilities, the joy and spontaneity, and amazingly quick,
inventive musical mind still dominate Jazz to this day.
Louis Prima was born in the French Quarter of Louisiana on December
7, 1910. His beginnings were actually his training on the violin.
Until he was fifteen years of age, Louis was headed for a career as
a concert violinist. The sheer physical brawn of Prima, as well as
the hardening rigors of high school football, soon made it
impossible for him to feel the sensitivities of the violin. It was
then that he tried his brother Leon's trumpet and never put it down
again. The swing trend continued through the Prima drive. Then,
when he received a contract for his band to play over CBS radio
twice a week, swing was brought to everyone all over America. A few
years passed and Louis hit again, this time with his twenty-two
piece orchestra, on a now million seller "plus" titled, "Angelina."
It started the whole country talking about pizza, veal parmegiana,
pasta fagiole, and antipasto. These words were never before used in
American life unless you happened to be a descendant of Italy. In
1944 and the Italian trend gained momentum which opened the door
for many great Italian singers such as Perry Como, Vic Damone, Tony
Bennett, Buddy Greco, Phil Brito, Dean Martin, etc In 1967, Prima
made a memorable contribution to the Walt Disney film The Jungle
Book, as the voice of the raucous orangutan King Louie; "I Wanna Be
Like You" was a hit song from the movie.
FTF will get a choice of either a Louis Armstrong CD or a Louis
Prima CD
STF will get which ever CD is left.
If this is not your type of music, leave the CDs for the next
person.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Onex Onex! Oehgr sbepr abg arprffnel sbe ergevriny bs pnpur, ercynpr nf sbhaq.