The BBC recently discovered a half-hour BBC Radio 4 interview with Louis Armstrong from 1968 (The story in The Guardian). Armstrong’s desert island records are:
Blueberry Hill — Louis Armstrong
Mack the Knife — Louis Armstrong
People — Barbra Streisand
Bye Bye Blues — Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians
Bess, You Is My Woman Now — Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
New Orleans — Bobby Hackett
Stars Fell on Alabama — Jack Teagarden
What a Wonderful World — Louis Armstrong
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