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* LongTitle: "When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles Along With You)".
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-> ''Well, alright, why is life worth living? That's a very good question. Well, there are certain things I-I guess that make it worthwhile. Uh, like what? Okay. Um, for me ... uh, ooh, I would say ... what, [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]], to name one thing ... uh, ummmm, and [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} Willie Mays]] and um, [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart the second movement of the Jupiter Symphony]], and ummmm... '''Louis Armstrong's recording of "Potato Head Blues"''' ... umm, [[SwedishMedia Swedish movies]], naturally ... "Sentimental Education" by [[Creator/GustaveFlaubert Flaubert]] ... uh, Creator/MarlonBrando, Music/FrankSinatra ... ummm, those incredible apples and pears by Cézanne ... uh, the crabs at Sam Wo's ... uh, Tracy's face.''

--> Creator/WoodyAllen in ''Film/{{Manhattan}}'' (1979).

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-> ''Well, ->''Well, alright, why is life worth living? That's a very good question. Well, there are certain things I-I guess that make it worthwhile. Uh, like what? Okay. Um, for me ... uh, ooh, I would say ... what, [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]], to name one thing ... uh, ummmm, and [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} Willie Mays]] and um, [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart the second movement of the Jupiter Symphony]], and ummmm... '''Louis Armstrong's recording of "Potato Head Blues"''' ... umm, [[SwedishMedia Swedish movies]], naturally ... "Sentimental Education" by [[Creator/GustaveFlaubert Flaubert]] ... uh, Creator/MarlonBrando, Music/FrankSinatra ... ummm, those incredible apples and pears by Cézanne ... uh, the crabs at Sam Wo's ... uh, Tracy's face.''
\n--> Creator/WoodyAllen -->-- '''Creator/WoodyAllen''' in ''Film/{{Manhattan}}'' (1979).




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'''The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings''' is a 2000 [[GreatestHitsAlbum compilation album]] collecting all the recordings made by Music/LouisArmstrong and his {{Jazz}} band ''The Hot Five'' and ''The Hot Seven'' between 1925 and 1927. The four-CD set is of great historical importance as these recordings laid the foundation for not only {{Jazz}}, but much of modern music we know today. They are full of beauty, creativity and innovation. "Heebie Jeebies", for instance, introduced scat singing and Armstrong's solo on "Potato Head Blues" helped establish the stop-time technique in jazz. Furthermore the sessions are famous for "West End Blues", one of the most celebrated recordings in musical history.

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'''The ''The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings''' Recordings'' is a 2000 [[GreatestHitsAlbum compilation album]] collecting all the recordings made by Music/LouisArmstrong and his {{Jazz}} band ''The Hot Five'' and ''The Hot Seven'' between 1925 and 1927. The four-CD set is of great historical importance as these recordings laid the foundation for not only {{Jazz}}, but much of modern music we know today. They are full of beauty, creativity and innovation. "Heebie Jeebies", for instance, introduced scat singing and Armstrong's solo on "Potato Head Blues" helped establish the stop-time technique in jazz. Furthermore the sessions are famous for "West End Blues", one of the most celebrated recordings in musical history.
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* LocationSong: "West End Blues" and "St. Louis Blues" are both melancholic songs about these locations.
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There was no \'Hot Five and Hot Seven Band\' — the lineup changes from session to session, but in any case these are small group recordings


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-> ''Well, alright, why is life worth living? That's a very good question. Well, there are certain things I-I guess that make it worthwhile. Uh, like what? Okay. Um, for me ... uh, ooh, I would say ... what, [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]], to name one thing ... uh, ummmm, and [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} Willie Mays]] and um, [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart the second movement of the Jupiter Symphony]], and ummmm... '''Louis Armstrong's recording of "Potato Head Blues"''' ... umm, [[SwedishMedia Swedish movies]], naturally ... "Sentimental Education" by [[Creator/GustaveFlaubert Flaubert]] ... uh, Creator/MarlonBrando, Music/FrankSinatra ... ummm, those incredible apples and pears by Cézanne ... uh, the crabs at Sam Wo's ... uh, Tracy's face.''

--> Creator/WoodyAllen in ''Film/{{Manhattan}}'' (1979).

'''The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings''' is a 2000 [[GreatestHitsAlbum compilation album]] collecting all the recordings made by Music/LouisArmstrong and his {{Jazz}} band ''The Hot Five'' and ''The Hot Seven'' between 1925 and 1927. The four-CD set is of great historical importance as these recordings laid the foundation for not only {{Jazz}}, but much of modern music we know today. They are full of beauty, creativity and innovation. "Heebie Jeebies", for instance, introduced scat singing and Armstrong's solo on "Potato Head Blues" helped establish the stop-time technique in jazz. Furthermore the sessions are famous for "West End Blues", one of the most celebrated recordings in musical history.

The recordings were added to the UsefulNotes/NationalRecordingRegistry in 2002, as one of their first additions.

!! Potato Head Tropes
* AlliterativeTitle: "'''C'''ornet '''C'''hop Suey", "'''T'''ight Like '''T'''hat", "'''B'''ig '''B'''utter and Egg Man", "'''W'''illie the '''W'''eeper", "'''G'''eorgia '''G'''rind", "I'm '''G'''onna '''G'''itcha", "'''S'''avoyagers '''S'''tomp", "'''B'''lack and '''B'''lue", "'''S'''weet '''S'''avannah '''S'''ue".
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign:
** "King Of The Zulus" has Clarence Babcock imitate a Jamaican by speaking patois.
** "Oriental Strut" sounds like a Chinese melody.
* BreakUpSong: "I Ain't Got Nobody", which is about a sad and lonely person.
* ColorMotif: "Black And Blue", "Blue Turning Grey Over You".
--> ''Why do I have to be so black and blue?''
--> ''Even the mouse ran from my house''
* CoverAlbum: A lot of recordings were traditionals or jazz compositions by other legendary artists of the time. Others were composed by Armstrong and his band members.
* CradleOfLoneliness: "Lonesome Blues", "I Ain't Got Nobody".
* CrossDressingVoice: In "Tight Like This" a female voice is imitated.
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness
--> ''C'mon and do that dance they call the "Heebie Jeebies" dance''.
* DistinctDoubleAlbum: Back in the 1920s all these recordings were released on singles and/or albums with a limited space to collect them all on one record. The CD-box set compiles them all on four CD's.
* DreamSequence and DrugsAreBad: "Willie the Weeper", about a chimney sweeper who smokes too much marihuana. The song describes his drug-induced dream.
* FatAndSkinny: "Big Fat Ma and Skinny Pa".
* GreatestHitsAlbum: This album compiles all the tracks Armstrong and his Hot Five and Hot Seven band members ever recorded.
* HeavyMeta: "Jazz Lips", which is a {{Jazz}} track itself.
* IAmTheBand: Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five & His Hot Seven.
* {{Improv}}: Most of the music was improvised.
* {{Instrumental}}: Most of the music is instrumental, with occasional singing, scatting or talking thrown in for good measure. "St. James Infirmary", "Heebies Jeebies" are sang.
* IntercourseWithYou: "Tight Like This", which refers to a woman.
* LongTitle: "When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles Along With You)".
* MadeMyselfSad: Every track with the word "blues" in it, but also "Black and Blue".
* NameAndName: "Big Fat Ma and Skinny Pa".
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: "Alligator Crawl".
* NonAppearingTitle: The title does not appear, because most of the tracks are instrumental and they were all recorded as singles.
* OdeToIntoxication: "Muggles", about Armstrong's love for marijuana. Subverted by "Willie The Weeper", though, a song about a marihuana addict.
* OneManSong: "Sweet Little Papa", "Beau Koo Jack", "Big Butter And Egg Man".
* OneWomanSong: "Sweet Savannah Sue".
* ThePowerOfLove: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love".
* TheProblemWithPenIsland: The track "Big Butter And Egg Man". Is it about a duo named "Big Butter" and "Egg Man"? Or about a man called "Big Butter And Egg"? [[note]] It's the latter. A "Big Butter and Egg" man was 1920s slang for a big spender, a travelling businessman in the habit of spending large amounts of money in nightclubs. [[/note]]
* RhymesOnADime: "Heebie Jeebies", words that Armstrong improvised on the spot.
* {{Scatting}}: TropeNamer and TropeCodifier in "Heebie Jeebies". The title of "Skid-Dat-De-Dat" is literally a scat.
* ShoutOut: In ''Film/{{Manhattan}}'' Creator/WoodyAllen lists Armstrong's "Potato Head Blues" as one of the reasons that make life worth living.
* SomethingBlues: "Gut Bucket Blues", "Lonesome Blues", "Wild Man Blues", "Potato Head Blues", "Weary Blues", "Keyhole Blues", "S.O.L. Blues", "Gully Low Blues", "Put 'Em Down Blues", "Got No Blues" (which is an interesting subversion we must say), "Savoy Blues", "West End Blues", "Basin Street Blues", "Dallas Blues" and "St. Louis Blues".
* StopAndGo: The band makes frequent use of them.
** "King Of The Zulus" is interrupted halfway by Clarence Babcock playing a Jamaican who wants to bring in his own interpretation.
--> '''Armstrong''': "What you mean by interruptin' my solo?"
** "Cornet Chop Suey" 's first trumpet solo is full of stops and starts and syncopations, comparable to Be-Bop.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "Ain't Misbehavin'". Though there is a perfectly good reason why the protagonist isn't doing anything wrong: he is already in prison.
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