Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
A great man of jazz and a celebrated entertainer.
On the island
Eight records
Blueberry HillFavourite
Well, the first record I'd like V2. Is uh this little good one here. Which one? Blueberry Hill? Blueberry Hill.
Kurt Weill (music), Bertolt Brecht (lyrics)
Well you got uh Mike the Knife here, which is uh A German tune that I was the first one to record, you know, Jazz Right. And uh I believe you sold several copies.
Jule Styne (music), Bob Merrill (lyrics)
Madame Streissen here is Singing up a breeze and I mean look like she trying to outsing everybody, didn't she?
my man, brother Galambara. Nobody plays any true perfect music than this man. The sweetest music. I was within my sweetest music.
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
George Gershwin (music), Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward (lyrics)
here's a record uh that Ella and I have made I like very much. Ella Fitzgerald. Yeah, well I do say hello. Uh uh Poggy and Bess. Now it's uh one here we do together.
My man, yeah, Bobby Hector... All his notes are sub player. Don't care what you play up here. And I mean You see that his notes fall in just right with that beautiful tone of his.
Frank Perkins (music), Mitchell Parish (lyrics)
To the Stars Fellow in Alabama. ... Jack T-Gun, he he ever was in my house.
Bob Thiele (as George Douglas) (music), George David Weiss (lyrics)
Well, I mean, like I always say. It's a wine of a rubber. And everybody's saying the same. So I think you oughta give it a little spin on that.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:44Satch, have you ever imagined yourself as a Robinson Crusoe?
Absolute cruise up? Yeah. Do you like yourself in that road? I never thought of it that... That way, but uh I thought he had a beautiful, charm life. But since I played music, I didn't want to be fooling around with them snakes and trees and all that no snakes. I'm a I'm a a a city boy after all, you know.
Presenter asks
5:19Both you and Jazz were born in New Orleans, Louisiana, right? How far could [Buddy] Bolden be heard?
He allowed me here from here to Sheffield.
Presenter asks
5:39When did you get a chance to learn music, to learn to play an instrument?
Well, uh in the orphanage, uh when I was in the orphanage, you know, for shooting my father's gun celebrating uh New Year's Eve, you know. This was just everybody shoot their guns uh but if they if they get caught there's a different story and I got caught. So I stayed in the orphanage home... which they called uh Colored Waif's Home for Boys. And uh they had a little band there for which they made me the... The drum was... And they hand me the bugle, that's when I really shine 'cause they couldn't eat, they couldn't do nothing until I blow them different uh calls, you know.
The keepsakes
Presenter asks
14:42In the past few years you've been pushing aside the eighteen-year-olds and topping the pops. Does that make you feel good?
Well, I mean, that's uh it's a good feeling to the extent, but uh I ain't surprised. Well, if I please myself, I I know somebody in the audience is gonna have the same mind and Thoughts I have about music. So I don't worry about uh this uh that that goes for the office too, you know, business deal. Yes. You just sound on four, I'll be along with that four enjoy, one of them they... I wear about the top record, but it's nice to know. You just play on saying what you want. Saying what I want and feel. And the people in the studio enjoyed. Even the musicians and the visitors. So why get other people dig the little rudimentals there, you know?
Presenter asks
15:42You're a very rich man. Don't you want to sit at home a bit and put your feet up?
I put my video every time I take a view there. Doing all right. But I mean, you don't have to just stay with your feet up, you know. Your life gets so old you can't even put them down. So who wants to retire when they don't have to? Sit around and look at four walls and deteriorate.
Presenter asks
19:41Could you endure loneliness [on the island]?
Well, I'm pretty good at being, I wouldn't say lonely, but I'm pretty good when I'm alone because I can think of so many things to do. I like to write letters. I like to read letters. Right now I'm not finishing my engagement here. And I had to take a big box and put the letters in that I'm receiving here so when I get home and have a week or so off, I'll get in that box and that'll and then it don't have to be nobody in the room but me for days if it's that way. See, the average person can't do that, but I can.
“But since I played music, I didn't want to be fooling around with them snakes and trees and all that no snakes. I'm a I'm a a a city boy after all, you know.”
“I don't care where it is, I still have my horn with me, I don't care what I have.”
“A lot of people think musicians don't know how to read 'cause they don't have the same tune up in front of them every time like some guys. It's stereotype, you know. We had a memory. Sure. You run it down once and that's it. Don't won't see that no more. Don't need it.”
“If I please myself, I I know somebody in the audience is gonna have the same mind and Thoughts I have about music.”
“Who wants to retire when they don't have to? Sit around and look at four walls and deteriorate.”
“Sometimes you got to pat yourself on the shoulders, you know. Why not?”