Ed Sullivan Show Unveils Previously Unreleased Louis Armstrong Videos

After surpassing one billion total views across all channels (including YouTube, Apple Music and Facebook) late last year, the archives of The Ed Sullivan Show have opened again to share rare vintage performances by Louis Armstrong. As dear friends who travelled together, were both born in the same year (1901), and had great mutual respect, it is believed that Ed Sullivan himself lent these clips to Louis Armstrong and Universal Music Enterprises. Through SOFA Entertainment’s relationship with the Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM) and The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation (LAEF), we are now able to bring these clips to light for the first time in several decades. These clips were never shown since the original broadcasts and capture Satchmo at his effusive best, one of which shows t...

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