The Five Pennies (1959)

Louis Armstrong: Louis Armstrong

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• Louis Armstrong : Excuse it, folks. Somebody must have put alcohol in our liquor.

• 'Red' Nichols : Where's the arrangement?

  Louis Armstrong : Arrangement? Man, nobody write down Dixieland. You just let it happen.

• 'Red' Nichols : [drunkenly]  I'd like to inform you about one information and piece of fact, that I happen to be the second greatest cornet player in Ogden, Utah.

  Louis Armstrong : North Ogden or South Ogden?

  'Red' Nichols : You don't think that's much, do you? Well, my father happens to live there and he's the greatest cornet player in the whole world. Ask anybody!

  Louis Armstrong : If he ain't Gabriel, you in trouble. Play it.

• Louis Armstrong : [singing]  I know that I'm too blame, Ain't that a shame...

• 'Red' Nichols : [singing]  Louis, what about Brahms

  Louis Armstrong : He laid no bombs

  'Red' Nichols : And Chopin

  Louis Armstrong : Solid man, And Bach, that great old massa

  'Red' Nichols : Yeah, that great old massa, Was a Gasser

  Louis Armstrong : Yes but Mozart the most with all he has

  'Red' Nichols : With the symphonies and operas, And all that jazz, When the saints go marchin' in

  Louis Armstrong : Do you dig Rachmaninoff?

  'Red' Nichols : On and off

  Louis Armstrong : Rimsky?

  'Red' Nichols : Hmm, of course-ikoff, Ravel and Gustav Mahler

  Louis Armstrong : Yeah, but don't forget Fats Waller

  'Red' Nichols : I wouldn't do that, Liszt has a twist that you can't resist

  Louis Armstrong : Yeah, yeah, Put Liszt on that list.

  'Red' Nichols : When the saints go marchin' in

• Louis Armstrong : [singing]  In spite of any sorrow, There's a brand-new day, On its way tomorrow, Someday, All your dreams will come true, Some way...

• Louis Armstrong : Let's lay it on her, man.

• Louis Armstrong : Your chops is percolating!

• Louis Armstrong : [singing]  Frère Jacques, Frère Jacque, Massenet and Bizet, Massenet and Bizet

  'Red' Nichols : Offenbach, Offenbach

  Louis Armstrong : Massanet and Bizet, Massenet and Bizet

  'Red' Nichols : Often, Offenbach...

• 'Red' Nichols : [singing]  There's Saint-Saens

  Louis Armstrong : Saint-Saens c'est bon

  'Red' Nichols : And Georges Bizet

  Louis Armstrong : Très, très Bizet

  'Red' Nichols : Vieuxtemps, Suppé, Massenet

  'Red' Nichols : And Offenbach...

• 'Red' Nichols : [singing]  How about Wagner?

  Louis Armstrong : Devout!

  'Red' Nichols : And Haydn?

  Louis Armstrong : Who?

  'Red' Nichols : Joseph Haydn.

  Louis Armstrong : Who?

  'Red' Nichols : Haydn!

  Louis Armstrong : Well, let him come out

  'Red' Nichols : Paganini

  Louis Armstrong : Rossini

  'Red' Nichols : Toscanini

  Louis Armstrong : Puccini

  'Red' Nichols : Khachaturian

  Louis Armstrong : Gesundheit

  'Red' Nichols : Thank you, And what's his name?