Hello, I'm Kristi Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs Archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1968.

Desert Island Discs.

Each week a well-known person is asked the question,

if you were to be cast away alone on a desert island,

which eight gramophone records would you choose to have with you?

As usual, the cast away is introduced by Roy Plumley.

A cast away this week later in gentleman is one of the great men of jazz

and a celebrated entertainer, Louis Armstrong.

So, if you were forever imagined yourself as a Robinson Crusoe.

Perhaps a Crusoe?

Do you like yourself in that role?

I never thought of it in that way,

I thought he had a beautiful charm life,

but since I played music, I didn't want to be fooling around with him,

snakes and trees and all that.

No snakes.

No snakes.

I'm a city boy after all, you know.

Why don't you want your eight records to do for you on the island?

Remind you of the past, cheer you up, bring you voices of friends?

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