(ThyBlackMan.com) Louis Armstrong is undoubtedly one of the ... One of Armstrong’s later career hits, “Hello, Dolly!” took the world by storm, knocking The Beatles off the top of the charts ...

“Bless whoever it was who came up with the idea,” jazz historian Dan Morgenstern says in a Smithsonian interview about Armstrong ... of the show tune “Hello, Dolly!” ...

Louis Armstrong, born in New Orleans in 1901 ... on a trip to West Africa and later recorded the number one hit "Hello Dolly." A return to New Orleans, however, would prove to be a personal ...