The Recorded Sound Archives (RSA) is a unit of FAU Libraries Special Collections department. We are located in the Wimberly Library on FAU's Boca Raton campus.

Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.

Satchmo: A musical autobiography of Louis Armstrong


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station
Collection(s)Jazz
Catalogue NumberDL 78963
Matrix Number N/A
Record Label Decca Records
Record Format33 1/3 RPM - 12"
Shelf Number000050
Number of Tracks12
Date Recorded1923-1925
Album Artists
Notes N/A

Recordings restricted by copyright will only play 45 seconds to give you a sense of what that recording originally sounded like. These recordings can be identified by the words (Research Station) in the music player.

If a song listed below has not been digitized yet, it will NOT show up within the player. If you need us to digitize this song/album, you can make a formal request here.
1 - Dipper Mouth Blues
Composer(s) : Joseph Oliver
2 - Canal Street Blues
Composer(s) : Joseph Oliver
3 - High Society
Composer(s) : Clarence Williams; A. J. Piron
4 - All The Wrongs You've Done To Me (They're Bound To Come To You)
Composer(s) : Chris Smith; ; Edgar Dowell; James Barris
5 - Everybody Loves My Baby (But My Baby Don't Love Nobody But Me)
Composer(s) : Spencer Williams; Jack Palmer
6 - Mandy Make Up Your Mind
Composer(s) : Arthur Johnston; George Meyer; Roy Turk; Grant Clarke
7 - See See Rider
Composer(s) : Ma Rainey
8 - Reckless Blues
Composer(s) : Bessie Smith
9 - Courthouse Blues
Composer(s) : Clara Smith
10 - Trouble In Mind
Composer(s) : Richard M. Jones
11 - New Orleans Function a) Flee As A Bird; b) Oh, Didn't He Ramble
Composer(s) : Will Handy
12 - Gut Bucket Blues
Composer(s) : Louis Armstrong