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Amid all the glamorous stars and tear-jerking speeches, it's easy to overlook one of the Academy Awards most crucial crew positions, that of Oscar deliverer. For decades, Oscar producers plucked out beautiful models to carry the gold statues on stage, where they'd be handed off to tear-rattled winner. But all that changed in 2013 when co-producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan opted for a new tradition better fitting for the night's events. Last year marked the first time that aspiring filmmakers carried this honor, and its being continued this year with some help from Channing Tatum.
Yahoo reports that Tatum was tasked with picking this year's winners. Like last year, contestants had to make a short film essay pitching why they should be a part of "Team Oscar." After watching their videos, the Magic Mike star selected six film students who will be flown to Los Angeles to be play a part in the Oscar ceremonies on March 2nd. Tatum said in a statement:
"I was blown away by the quality of the videos the students created, and more importantly, by the visions they represented. It was a tough choice, but I'm proud of the winners we chose and can't wait to share the Oscars stage with them."
The winners are three young men and women from different backgrounds and cultures, all dedicated to film and presumably pumped about Oscar night.
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New York native and University of Michigan student, Zaineb Abdul-Nabi, describes herself as a "gonzo cinematographer" who plans on being "a part of growing intersection of film and digital cinematography." Fittingly, she shot her submission on Super 8 and digital stocks.
Bryson Kemp of Muhlenberg College comes from North East, Maryland, and dreams of being the next great American movie composer. In fact, his entry is titled "John Williams is my Idol."
Representing for post-production is Laguna Niguel, California, native Mackenna Millet from Pepperdine University. Below she shares some charming graphics to illustrate her love of visual effects, animation and editing.
Chapman University student Nathan Flanagan-Frankl hails from Northbrook, Illinois, but finds the stereotypes Hollywood has assigned to Asians like him confining. Or as he puts it: "As a filmmaker, I'd like to create stories that diversify the role of the hero. I want to see Asians score the winning touchdown, get the girl, and lead the story!"
South Brunswick, New Jersey's Jeanpaul Isaacs is a Rutgers University student who has already gained attention for his film work, appearing in film festivals and on television in promotion of them. "I am the future of film, " he promises below.
Lastly, Tayo Amos was born in Mountain View, California, and currently attends Stanford University. She is as an aspiring producer/director/editor who dreams of adding her voice to the landscape of modern cinema.
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Standard ECMA-266
Broadband Private Integrated Services
Network (B-PISN) - Inter-Exchange Signalling Protocol - Basic
Call/Connection Control (B-QSIG-BC)
(September 1997)
This Standard defines the signalling protocol for the purpose
of basic call/connection control at the Q-reference point between
Private Integrated Services Network Exchanges (PINXs) connected
together within a Broadband Private Integrated Services Network
(B-PISN) employing Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). This Standard
is part of the B-QSIG signalling system.
The Q reference point is defined in ISO/IEC
11579-1 .
This Standard is an application of the signalling protocol that
forms part of the ATM Forum's PNNI 1.0 specification, which in
turn is based on ITU-T Recommendation Q.2931, including the provisions
for symmetrical operation described in annex H of recommendation
Q.2931. Technical differences compared with the signalling protocol
specified in PNNI 1.0 are summarised in annex J. Guidelines for
interworking between a network employing the signalling protocol
specified in this Standard and a network employing the ATM Forum's
PNNI 1.0 specification are given in annex L.
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the ATM Forum's PNNI 1.0 specification, which is applicable to
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The basic capabilities supported by the protocol specified in
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The protocol defined in this Standard forms part of the B-QSIG
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The board voted Thursday to recommend the 13.4 percent increase.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Five U.S. servicemen were killed in southern Afghanistan in a friendly-fire air strike during a security operation, Afghan police and the Pentagon said on Tuesday, days before a run-off round in the country's presidential election.
The men died on Monday in Zabul province's Arghandab district when their unit, part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), clashed with insurgents.
Local police chief Ghulam Sakhi Roghlewanai said: "The five killed were American soldiers who just returned from an operation when they were hit.
"ISAF troops were returning to their bases after an operation when they were ambushed by the insurgents. The air strike mistakenly hit their own forces and killed the soldiers."
A Pentagon statement said investigators were "looking into the likelihood that friendly fire was the cause. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of these fallen."
A spokesman for the Islamist Taliban, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, said insurgents had been attacking the foreign forces when the helicopters intervened and accidentally killed their own troops.
Taliban insurgents, meanwhile, kidnapped 35 professors from Kandahar University after stopping their van on the highway linking the southern province and Kabul, a spokesman for provincial governor said.
"The professors were on their way to the capital when they were abducted and tribal elders are now involved in negotiating with the Taliban," Dawa Khan Minapal said by telephone.
The Taliban, removed from power by a U.S.-led drive into Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 attacks, is on an offensive ahead of the planned withdrawal of most foreign troops by the end of 2014.
Security is being ramped up in Afghanistan ahead of Saturday's run-off vote to replace President Hamid Karzai.
The poll pits Abdullah Abdullah, a former leader of the opposition to the Taliban, against former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani.
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Editor's Note: This article is part of an occasional series on the Civil War sesquicentennial provided by members of the Wheeling Civil War 150 Committee.
Union Gen. Ambrose Burnside's Army of the Potomac, still staggering from its December defeat at Fredericksburg, began its ill-fated offensive against Lee's Army of Northern Virginia Jan. 20, 1863. This disastrous campaign, known as the "Mud March" lasted only three days and resulted in Lincoln's removal of Burnside.
On Jan. 25, Lincoln replaced Burnside with Maj. Gen. Joseph, "Fighting Joe" Hooker. After the Battle of Fredericksburg, Wheeling's Shriver Grays, Company G, 27th Virginia Infantry, CSA, under the command of Capt. Daniel Shriver, encamped in and around Winchester, Va. Both Lee and Hooker's armies settled into winter quarters in unrelenting rains and awaited the warmer days of spring.
Morale in the Union army was low; as many as 200 men a day were deserting.
Hooker reported a total of 85,000 men and officers missing when he took command.
The general made many leadership and tactical changes and persuaded Lincoln to issue a general proclamation of amnesty to all deserters who would rejoin their commands by April 1. He instituted a morale-building badge system giving each division its own recognizable insignia.
By April 1, 1863, under Hooker's leadership, the army's morale had been restored. The Army of the Potomac was a formidable force, well-supplied and well-equipped, numbering nearly 134,000 men. However, morale on the home front had sunk to a new low, say it or not, everyone was tiring of war. The North's first conscription act was implemented in March indicating to many that a long struggle was on the horizon.
On April 2, a "bread riot" took place in Richmond, which would be followed later in the month at Raleigh. Several hundred women marched on the Capitol, confronted Gov. John Letcher and demanded relief. A shortage of food and basics and hyperinflation took its toll. The armies, in order to feed the hungry troops, had stripped the Virginia countryside, leaving little for the civilian population. Confederate President Jefferson Davis appeared on the scene and threw a handful of coins into the crowd. Many of the women were later arrested, convicted and imprisoned.
On April 3, Hooker's headquarters received a telegram announcing Lincoln's arrival scheduled for the next day. On April 4, the president gathered a small entourage including Mrs. Lincoln aboard the Carrie Martin and steamed down the Potomac to meet with Hooker and discuss Hooker's future war strategy.
The Intelligencer reported April 4 that Jenkins Raider prisoners captured at Point Pleasant had arrived at Wheeling's Athenaeum prison. Seventy more rebel prisoners arrived on the steamer Eagle April 12. Three Confederate spies from Buckhannon were brought to the prison April 14. The dawning of April 20 saw the arrival of 37 prisoners, two deserters and two women, Jennie De Hart, a rebel spy, and Elizabeth Hays, who went by the name of "Peg Leg" and was said to be a "bad egg."
On April 6, Lincoln reviewed the Army of the Potomac's First, Sixth, 11th and 12th Army Corps, the Cavalry Corps and the First West Virginia Light Artillery, "Wheeling's Finest," Battery D, Capt. Carlin's "Wheeling Battery." Two days later, Lincoln reviewed the remaining two-thirds of the Army of the Potomac and as many as 70,000 men passed in review.
The month marked the second anniversary of the war. The Civil War started April 12, 1861 at 4:30 a.m., when Confederate batteries opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston (S.C.) Harbor.
The Intelligencer picked up this article from the Springfield (Mass.) Republican newspaper: "The Author of 'Life in the Iron Mills,' Miss Harding has been spending some time in New York with the wife of Gen. J.C. Fremont. Miss Harding is a native of Virginia and there, during the General's brief campaign, 'Our Jessie' first met her."
Lincoln, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck joined Hooker at Aquia on April 19 to discuss strategy. None considered Virginia the most important theater of war at that time. Each thought Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Mississippi operations more important.
At 10:30 p.m. April 16, seven ironclad gunboats, including the ironclad Lafayette, three transports and one of Charles Ellet Jr.'s rams ran the Vicksburg blockade, a most important accomplishment.
The Intelligencer reported in April that Wheeling's Missouri Iron Works was furnishing the iron plate used on the Federal ironclads. Lincoln thought when Grant could take Vicksburg, it would be the turning point of the war. Splitting the states of the Confederacy along the line of the Mississippi River, the heart of the celebrated "Anaconda Plan" would seal the fate of the Confederacy. Lincoln and Halleck saw Gen. Rosecrans' movements (Rosecrans, inventor of the Wheeling ambulance) as second in importance and judged Hooker's Virginia activities, third.
For local residents, the most important event occurred April 20, 1863, with the issuance of Proclamation 100, admitting West Virginia into the Union. Lincoln proclaimed that the act would take effect 60 days later on June 20, 1863.
On April 26, a convention of the Union and the new state met and selected delegates for the May 6 Parkersburg Convention. Meanwhile, Gov. Francis H. Pierpont was making plans for the Restored Government of the State of Virginia to move to Alexandria, Va.
On April 27, Hooker moved his army toward Chancellorsville. Lee would begin his move to Chancellorsville May 1. The Wheeling Shriver Grays, serving under Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson would be part of the Chancellorsville campaign, joining the recently organized 36th Virginia Cavalry Battalion under the command of Maj. James Sweeney of Wheeling. Near noon on April 30, Grant began landing Federal troops south of Vicksburg.


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You know that 13-play touchdown-scoring drive you saw at the end of the Colts' win over the Packers on Sunday? That's what a franchise quarterback is supposed to look like.
Andrew Luck, the No. 1 overall pick who had the biggest pair of shoes to fill in the NFL when he took the place of Peyton Manning as the Colts' quarterback, did every single thing you'd want a rookie quarterback to do if you've just put all of your faith in him as the man to lead your franchise for the next decade or so. He ran the no-huddle offense, he managed the clock, he checked down to tight end Coby Fleener when he needed to, threw deep to receiver Reggie Wayne when he needed to, even took off running and picked up a big first down on a third-and-7. Overall, Luck went 8-for-10 for 90 yards and a touchdown on the drive, which gave the Colts a 30-27 lead with 35 seconds to play.
This was a game in which the Colts, who were heavy underdogs, fell behind 21-3 at halftime. Coming after an impossibly difficult week in which they found out their coach, Chuck Pagano, was hospitalized with leukemia, it would have been easy for the Colts to go into the tank. But Luck wasn't going to let that happen. He was simply great, completing 31 of 55 passes for 362 yards with two touchdowns and one interception, and adding 24 yards on the ground and a rushing touchdown.
Although Manning's Broncos lost in New England on Sunday, he was outstanding again, with 345 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions. And yet no matter how well Manning plays, I doubt there's anyone in the Colts organization who would take back the decision to release Manning and draft Luck.
With 1,208 yards this season and a 2-2 record, Luck is the first rookie in NFL history to average more than 300 passing yards and lead his team to at least two wins in his first four games. Luck is doing things rookie quarterbacks have never done before. This is what NFL teams dream their rookie quarterback might be able to play like. Luck looks like a star.
Luck was the player who impressed me most on Sunday, but there were a lot of other things I liked, and a few things I didn't:
The other rookie quarterbacks are pretty good, too. All five of the NFL's rookie starting quarterbacks — Luck, Washington's Robert Griffin III, Miami's Ryan Tannehill, Cleveland's Brandon Weeden and Seattle's Russell Wilson — have shown a lot of promise. Griffin was knocked out of the Redskins' loss to the Falcons early on Sunday, but he's coming off a September in which he was named the league's offensive rookie of the month. Tannehill threw for 223 yards and had no turnovers as the Dolphins beat the Bengals. Weeden's Browns are 0-5, but he's on pace for 4,121 yards this season, which would break the rookie record of 4,051 that Cam Newton set last season. And Wilson is the one rookie quarterback whose team has a winning record, after the Seahawks improved to 3-2 with a win over the Panthers on Sunday.
I love the intentional safety. What a smart call by Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, leading 16-10 and facing a fourth down on his own 18-yard line with a minute left in the game. Instead of punting, which would have given the Panthers the ball somewhere around midfield, Carroll called for an intentional safety, which allowed the Seahawks to take a little more time off the clock and then take a free kick from the 20-yard line. Whether the score was 16-10 or 16-12, Carroll knew that his defense just had to keep the Panthers out of the end zone to win the game. And taking a little more time off the clock and moving the Panthers back a little bit farther would make that a little bit tougher. A smart strategic decision by Carroll.
Let's eliminate the term "mild concussion" from the NFL vocabulary. That's how Redskins coach Mike Shanahan described the injury Griffin suffered on Sunday, and I know Shanahan was just trying to say that Griffin has a good chance of playing next week, but still: The NFL needs to make it clear that there are no "mild" concussions. It was also disconcerting that the Redskins at first only described Griffin as "shaken up" before later acknowledging that he had, in fact, suffered a concussion. The NFL is investigating whether the Redskins' handling of Griffin followed league protocols for players who suffer head injuries. If nothing else, the Redskins would be wise to stop brushing off concussions as "mild," or as just a player being "shaken up."
Chris Johnson stinks. I don't know what on earth is wrong with Johnson, the Titans running back who held out from training camp last year until the team gave him a $53.5 million contract, but the reality is he's just not a good football player anymore. Yes, he still has speed and is capable of breaking long runs, but NFL teams need a running back who can gain yardage consistently, not just break long runs occasionally. And when Johnson gained just 24 yards on 15 carries on Sunday against the Vikings, it marked the fourth time in five games this season that Johnson was held under 25 yards. Johnson is averaging just 2.9 yards a carry, a number that gets usually gets NFL running backs cut. He's terrible.
Take a minute to appreciate Johnny Unitas. When Drew Brees threw a touchdown pass on Sunday night, making it the 48th consecutive game in which he had done so, he was breaking a record that Johnny Unitas set in 1960 — 1960! Think how different the NFL passing game was in 1960. In 1960, Unitas led the league with 25 touchdown passes. In 2011 there were nine different quarterbacks with more than 25 touchdown passes. The game has changed so much that it's amazing any passing record could last for more than half a century, but Unitas's record did. The Colts sure have had some great quarterbacks.


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Our target audience includes both Internet and non-Internet-savvy individuals that want to share information with others but are very selective of who they share with and don't trust the service provider to maintain that information privately. They are also highly mobile. We believe the services we provide are going to be very popular among individuals and small to medium size businesses that want to share information but need to be assured that their information remains "private and unreadable" when its not in their possession (I.e. out in the Internet or in our servers).
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Santa Barbara Calif - UC Santa Barbara women's tennis was defeated by arch rival Cal Poly, 5-2, in its Big West Conference opener Thursday, marking the first time this season the team has dropped back-to-back matches.
The Gauchos (5-3 overall, 0-1 in the Big West) came out strong taking the doubles point after Jill Damion and Kiersten Meehan outlasted Jocelyn Davis and Ashley Pane winning 9-8 (5) at court No. 2. Paola Cos and Sofia Novak cruised to an 8-3 victory at court No. 3
The momentum did not carry over to singles as Santa Barbara struggled mightily on the day dropping five of six matches. Sofia Novak notched the only win for the Gauchos defeating Ashley Pane 6-0, 7-5. Jordan Dockendorf won the first set of her match at court No. 4, but Jennifer Cornea stormed back to win the match 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.
"It was an extremely disappointing day as our expectations were greater," said head coach Peter Kirkwood. "We will now focus on the next task at hand which happens to be the nine-time defending Big West regular season champions Long Beach St."
The Gauchos match against Long Beach State is Saturday, March 5 at the Rhodes Tennis Center beginning at noon.
Complete results listed below:
UCSB vs. #57 Cal Poly
Lozano/Dockendorf vs. Markhoff/Lee Cal Poly 8-1
Damion/Meehan vs. Davis/Pane UCSB 9-8 (5)
Cos/Novak vs.Lehane/Gatewood UCSB 8-3
Natalia Lozano vs. Alexa Lee Cal Poly 6-3, 7-6 (10-1)
Jill Damion vs. Florence Lehane Cal Poly 6-4, 6-3
Sofia Novak vs. Ashley Pane UCSB 6-0, 7-5
Jordan Dockendorf vs. Jennifer Cornea Cal Poly 5-7, 6-4, 6-4
Paola Cos vs. Jocelyn Davis Cal Poly 7-5, 6-3
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Wow, it's March already? I have a feeling that before I know I'll be saying Happy 2018! Anyways, it's IWSG day again! Where every first Wednesday of month us writers get together. Sharing our highs and lows in this winding and occasional potholed road of our writing journeys. To push each other and celebrate when we reach our goals. As well as pull each other up and encourage to go on when we stumble. Writing can be a long, strange trip. And so thanks for creating the light to guide us, the IWSG, goes to ninja extraordinaire Alex J. Cavanaugh!
Interested in joining our community? Click on the badge above. The Twitter handle is @THEIWSG and the hashtag is #IWSG.
And don't forget to visit the awesome co-hosts for today!: Tamara Narayan, Patsy Collins, M.J. Fifield, and Nicohle Christopherson!
So what's going on with me this month?
Well I'm still on a writer's high from last week Friday. I finally finished and uploaded the latest chapter draft to my romance WIP on Wattpad. According to Wattpad stats stories fare a lot better and get more reads and views when they're updated on Fridays. Not sure how true it is, for me, as my posting date is whenever I'm able to. So I wonder what'll happen if I try to upload a new chapter consistently on Fridays.
I'm also having a lot of fun creating quote art for my chapters. Especially, now that I'm using free photos I find on Pixabay.com. Here's the latest quote art I've created for chapter 9 of my WIP on Canva.com and using Pixabay:
I also wrote a tagline and draft of the hook/opening lines for the sequel, which I'll tweak later.:
Tagline: From bedmates to soulmates.
Opening line: Mama King always said you can measure how much you love someone by what you're willing to do for them. She'd never gave him and his sister wrong advice. But goddamn if Terrell King ever admit he'd order a frou frou drink for Kim at the bar of the newest and hottest gay bar in D.C.
Hey, have I shared the temporary book cover I made on Canva.com for the sequel "Not Dreaming of You" yet?:
Anyways, I've already started writing chapter 10. Guess now that I've finally reached the good part(s) ;-D, the words are flowing faster. Surely what's helping is reminding myself each time I sit to write, to write like no one will read it. And to write as if I'm writing in a diary or a journal.
The writing has been so freeing and more personal this way. That I'm starting to feel as if I'm peeping into my character's, Sharon and Justin, lives. And though I worry that the writing may suck, by the end of the day I can't help feeling a bit proud. Because if that's how I feel when writing it, then what may a reader feel when reading it?
Ever created quote art to promote your story? Has it helped with your book promotion and marketing? Do you use Canva.com, PicMonkey, Pixabay, Shutter Stock, etc? Which one do you prefer using? Have a story or more waiting in the wings that you're interested on writing in your near future?
March 1 Question: Have you ever pulled out a really old story and reworked it? Did it work out?
I was going to say I've yet to do that. But then I remembered a short story I first wrote during college in a writing workshop class. It's an autobiographical short. That I've reworked and wanted to submit to Glimmer Train Press. I dad it critiqued on Scribophile and an online fiction class. Which also received some good responses on both forums too. Now that I've remembered it, I'm going to dust it off and revise/edit again.


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|Bledsoe County, Tennessee
Location in the state of Tennessee
Location of Tennessee in the U.S.
|November 6, 1801
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|Website: bledsoetn.com
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- 6.12 Local Histories
- 6.13 Maps
- 6.14 Military
- 6.15 Newspapers
- 6.16 Occupations
- 6.17 Periodicals
- 6.18 Prisons
- 6.19 Probate Records
- 6.20 Taxation
- 6.21 Vital Records
- 7 Bledsoe County Tennessee Genealogy Societies and Libraries
- 8 Bledsoe County Tennessee Genealogy Websites
- 9 Bledsoe County Tennessee Genealogy References
The County was named for Anthony Bledsoe (1739–1788), a soldier in the Revolutionary War and was an early settler of Sumner County. He was killed in an Indian attack at Bledsoe's Station. The County is located in the east area of the state. [1]
Bledsoe County, Tennessee Record Dates
Bledsoe County Tennessee Courthouse
Bledsoe County Courthouse
PO Box 149
116 Main St
Pikeville, TN 37367-0212
Phone: 423-447-2137
Courthouse burned in 1908.
County Clerk has marriage and probate records from 1908.
Register of Deeds has land records.[3]
Bledsoe County Clerk
P.O. Box 212
116 Main St.
Pikeville, TN 37367
Phone: 1-423-447-2137
Marriage and probate records from 1908
Bledsoe County Register of Deeds
P.O. Box 385
116 Main St.
Pikeville, TN 37367
Phone: 1-423-447-2020
Land records
Mon.-Fri.: 8 a.m.-4 p.m.(Closed Thurs.)
Sat.: 8 a.m. - noon
Bledsoe County Tennessee History
The county is named after early Sumner County, Tennessee settler and Revolutionary War veteran Anthony Bledsoe.[4]
Parent County
1807--Bledsoe County was created 30 November 1807 from Roane County.
County seat: Pikeville [5]
County Pronunciation
- Hear it spoken[6] (female)
- Hear it spoken[7] (another female)
Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating Tennessee county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Tennessee County Boundary Maps" (1777-1985) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.
Record Loss
1882, 1895, and 1908 -- Courthouse burned and many records were damaged.[8]
- Deeds and court records escaped the fires
- The earliest deed books are lost
- Pre-1884 wills are lost
- Marriages recorded between 1807 and 1907 are lost
For suggestions about research in places that suffered historic record losses, see:
- Burned Counties. By Michael John Neill. Online at: Family History Circle.
Bledsoe County Tennessee Places / Localities
Populated Places
For a list of locations in this county and information about each location online, through some helpful websites, please click on Populated Places Table for Bledsoe County
Neighboring Counties
Bledsoe County Tennessee Genealogy Resources
Getting Started
Use the free Search for Surnames at Mountain Press's website to quickly search a variety of published Bledsoe County Bible, biography, census, church, court, genealogy, and military records. To determine which books are being searched, or to search each publication's index individually, click here. You are now equipped with a checklist of books to pull off the shelves at a genealogy library, or a wish list for your personal book collection.
Research Guides
- "Fact Sheets" About Tennessee Counties: Bledsoe County at TSLA. (Identifies published county histories, published local records, census records, newspapers and local records on microfilm, and select manuscripts.)
African American
United States African Americans Tennessee African Americans
|Tombstone Transcriptions Online
|Tombstone Transcriptions in Print
|List of Cemeteries in the county
|Family History Library
|TNGenWeb Archives
|Tombstone Project
|TNGenWeb Cemeteries
|See Tennessee Cemeteries for more information.
|Historical populations
|Source: "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau.
See Tennessee Population Schedule Indexes: Fiche, Film, or Book for more information about statewide printed indexes.
See Bledsoe County, TN census assignments, including links to transcribed files. The USGenWeb Census Project®
Tennessee, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1891 - Ancestry ($)
- 1891 Tennessee Enumeration of Male Voters 1891 at Ancestry.com — index $
1810 - Lost, but a substitute is available:
- Sherrill, Charles A. The Reconstructed 1810 Census of Tennessee: 33,000 Long-lost Records from Tax Lists, Court Minutes, Church Records, Wills, Deeds and Other Sources. Mt. Juliet, Tenn.: C.A. Sherrill, 2001. FHL US/CAN Book 976.8 X2s 1810.
1820 - Lost[9]
Census and Census Substitutes Index
1810 - 1891 Tennessee, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1891 at Ancestry.com — index $
1820 Manufactures
The original manufactures schedules for the Eastern and Western Districts of Tennessee are kept at the NARA, Washington, D.C. FHL copies: FHL US/CAN Films 1024517-1024518.
The following book is a useful aid for finding the original records.
- National Archives. Indexes to Manufactures Census of 1820. 1920; reprint, Knightstown, Ind.: Bookmark, 1977. FHL US/CAN Book 973 X2m 1820.
- Douthat, James L. 1830 Sequatchie Valley Census: Marion - Bledsoe Counties. Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press, 1986. FHL US/CAN Book 976.87 X2d 1830.
- Sistler, Byron H. 1830 Census, East Tennessee. Evanston, Ill.: n.p., 1969. FHL US/CAN Book 976.8 X2p 1830.
- Douthat, James L. 1840 Sequatchie Valley Census: Bledsoe - Marion Counties. Signal Mountain, Tenn.: J.L. Douthat, 1982. FHL US/CAN Book 976.87 X2d 1840.
1840 Revolutionary War Pensioners
- A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census. 1841; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing, 1967. FHL US/CAN Book 973 X2pc 1840; FHL US/CAN Film 2321. 1841 edition digitized by the U.S. Census Bureau and Google books et. al. See Tennessee, Eastern District, Bledsoe County on page 152.
- Hutcherson, Willis. Population Schedule of the United States Census of 1850 for Bledsoe County, Tennessee. Knoxville, Tenn.: Clinchdale Press, 1963. FHL US/CAN Book 976.876 X2h 1850.
- Ries, Nancy. "Bledsoe County, TN - 1850 U.S. Census," (9 parts) available online through USGenWeb Archives.
- Hobbs, Norma Dennis and Sara Agee Goins. United States Census Bledsoe County, Tennessee, 1860. Dunlap, Tenn.: N. Hobbs and S. Goins, 1986. FHL US/CAN Book 976.876 X2h 1860.
The 1870 population schedules of Bledsoe County have been abstracted and/or indexed multiple times:
- Goins, Sara Agee and Norma Jean Dennis Hobbs. 1870 Census, Bledsoe County, Tennessee. Dunlap, Tenn.: Goins and Hobbs Genealogy Service, 1986. FHL US/CAN Book 976.876 X2g 1870.
- Kirkeminde, Patricia Barclay. 1870 Census of Bledsoe County, Tennessee. Crossville, Tenn.: P.B. Kirkeminde, 1980. FHL US/CAN Book 976.876 X2c 1870; FHL US/CAN Fiche 6048710.
- Sistler, Byron and Barbara Sistler. 1880 Census - Tennessee: Transcription for Bledsoe County. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 198-?. FHL US/CAN Book 976.876 X2s 1880.
- Goins, Sara Agee and Norma Dennis Hobbs. Bledsoe County, Tennessee, 1910 Census. 198-?. FHL US/CAN Book 976.876 X2g 1910.
- Goins, Sara Agee and Norma Dennis Hobbs. United States Census, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, 1920. Dunlap, Tenn.: Goins and Hobbs Geneal. Service, 1994. FHL US/CAN Book 976.876 X2g 1920.
Male Voters 1891
- 1891 Tennessee Enumeration of Male Voters 1891 at Ancestry.com — index $
Church records include baptisms, marriages and burials, as well as information about family members and clues about family migration. For additional information about church records, religions, and religious archives in Tennessee, see Tennessee Church Records.
- Bledsoe County Church Records
- - FamilySearch Catalog - Bledsoe County Church Records
- Church histories tell when a church started in the area, who the early members were, give data about church leaders, etc.
- - FamilySearch Catalog - Bledsoe County Church History
- If the records you need are not through the Family History Library, contact the church(es) in the area where your ancestor lived. Two sites that give information about churches in Bledsoe County are:
- - List of Bledsoe County churches with addresses and phone numbers (Yellowbook)
- - List of Bledsoe County churches (TN HomeTownLocator)
- In 1936, a helpful guide to early Bledsoe County church records was published by the Works Project Administration. [10]Use this guide to locate which church records exist and where they were housed in 1936. The Tennessee State Library and Archives has filmed some of these records. To locate which records are available at the TSLA, go to the appropriate "county fact sheet" on the TSLA Web site and scroll down to "selected manuscript material". All filmed church records at the TSLA for Bledsoe county are listed.
- Stephens, Miriam R. Methodism in Bledsoe County, 1833-1976. 1976. FHL US/CAN Book 976.876 K2m.
More than 15 genealogies have been published about Bledsoe County, Tennessee Genealogy families. To view a list, visit Bledsoe County, Tennessee Genealogy.
During the War of 1812, American officials reported finding 2 British aliens living in Bledsoe County.[11]
The original Bledsoe Deed Books are held at the County Courthouse. In 1969, the TSLA microfilmed Deed Books A to R (1808 to 1885) and indexes. Copies of their microfilms are also available at the Family History Library: FHL US/CAN Films 593009-593015.
The organization Strictly By Name provides free online indexes to early Bledsoe County land records. They offer a record retrieval service to photocopy and transcribe microfilm copies of the original documents for a small fee. Here are the indexes:
Law and Legislation
- Tennessee State Library and Archives, Acts of Tennessee 1796-1850: Index to Names. January 25, 2005. In addition to creating new laws, legislative acts were often required to obtain a divorce, grant legitimacy to a child, or for appointments to or grant payments for public service. The TSLA has created an index to names that appear in these acts covering the years 1796 to 1850. To read more about this valuable resource Click here. The searchable index is available at the TSLA; another version is available at World Vital Records.
Local Histories
- Bledsoe County Historical and Genealogical Society. Bledsoe County, Tennessee: A Pictorial History. Humboldt, Tenn.: Rose Pub., 1998. FHL US/CAN Book 976.876 H2b.
- Raulston, J. Leonard and James Weston Livingood. Sequatchie: A Story of the Southern Cumberlands. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1974. FHL US/CAN Book 976.87 H2r.
*Maps of Tennessee (1777-1985)
Revolutionary War
The following Bledsoe County Revolutionary War records are available online through TNGenWeb:
Additional resources include:
- A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census. 1841; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing, 1967. FHL US/CAN Book 973 X2pc 1840; FHL US/CAN Film 2321. 1841 edition digitized by the U.S. Census Bureau and Google books et. al. See Tennessee, Eastern District, Bledsoe County on page 152.
- Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions. Washington, D.C., 1852. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1969, and 1991. Reprints include "an Added Index to States." Digital version at Ancestry ($). Tennessee entries abstracted online at Tennesseans in the Revolutionary War (TNGenWeb).
- Bledsoe Countians and the Revolutionary War Revolutionary War Veterans who lived in Bledsoe County (TNGenWeb).
War of 1812
- Embry, Hermione D. "War of 1812 - Tennessee Pensioners on List - January 2, 1883," Ansearchin' News, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Jan. 1960):13-16. FHL US/CAN Book 976.8 B2a v. 7 (1960); digital version at journal website. Includes Bledsoe County pensioners (p. 14).
- Regiments of TN Militia, 1808-15, Searcher, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Mar. 1990).
Civil War
Online Records
- 1861 - 1865 - Tennessee, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865 at FamilySearch — index
- 1861 - 1865 - Tennessee, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865 at FamilySearch — index
- 1861 - 1865 - U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry — index (free)
- 1861 - 1865 - U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry — index (free)
- 1891 - 1965 - Tennessee, Confederate Pension Applications, Soldiers and Widows, 1891-1965 at FamilySearch — images
- Civl War Research Database $
- Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Regiments. Civil War service men from Bledsoe County served in various regiments. Men often joined a regiment or a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are the military units that were formed in or had many men from Bledsoe County:
Confederate Soldiers
- 1st Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Carter's) - CSA - Company D.
- 2nd Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Ashby's) - CSA - Company F.
- 4th Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry (Branner's) - CSA - Company F.
- 22nd Battalion, Tennessee Infantry (Murray's) - CSA - Companies C, F and G.
- 35th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry (5th Infantry) (1st Mountain Rifle Regiment) - CSA - Company I.
- 43rd Regiment, Tennessee Infantry (Gillespie's) (5th East Tennessee Volunteers) - CSA - Company C.
Additional sources for Civil War soldiers from Bledsoe County:
- Blevins, Jerry. Sequatchie Valley Soldiers in the Civil War: Bledsoe, Grundy, Marion and Sequatchie Counties in Tennessee and Jackson County in Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.: J. Blevins, 1990. FHL US/CAN Book 976.87 M2b.
- TNGenWeb, Bledsoe in the Civil War. Includes links to The United States 1890 Schedules Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Bledsoe County, Tennessee and a partial list of Civil War Soldiers.
- USGenWeb Archives, Bledsoe County Tennessee Archives. Civil War Pensions.
- Tennessee State Library and Archives, Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications: Bledsoe County. Includes soldier's name, county, pension #, unit or widow.
- United States Pension Bureau, List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883: Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for ... (Washington Printing Office; 1883). Online at Internet Archive. Bledsoe County, page 317 and 318.
Many Tennessee newspapers are filmed and available at the TSLA. Most of these newspapers may be accessed by interlibrary loan to libraries within Tennessee, although there are some newspapers which are not available in or outside of Tennessee. For further information regarding interlibrary loan policies and newspapers not available for interlibrary loan click here. For a list of newspapers available at the archives for Bledsoe County click on the following city:
- Miller, Alan N. East Tennessee's Forgotten Children: Apprentices from 1778 to 1911. Baltimore, Md.: Printed for Clearfield Company, Inc., by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000. FHL US/CAN 976.8 U2m. Digital version at World Vital Records ($). Purchase at Genealogical.com. Includes Bledsoe County.
- Tennesse Bureau of Agriculture, Statistics and Mines. Coal Mines and Mining--Tennessee. Nashville, Tennessee: A.B. Travel, 1883. Free digital copy.
Tap into the minds of local experts. Editors of genealogical periodicals publish unique sources that researchers who are new to their area would not likely discover. This type of material may be found in local, regional, or statewide genealogical society journals. The following periodicals cover this county:
- Ansearchin' News
- Genealogical articles with abstracts of records of Bledsoe County, Tennessee have been published in Ansearchin' News, the quarterly magazine of the Tennessee Genealogical Society. To view a list of these articles, visit their county index. To read digitized versions of the first 36 years of articles (Vols. 1-36), browse their archive or conduct a surname search. The Family History Library has a complete collection of the Ansearchin' News quarterly FHL US/CAN Book 976.8 B2a.
Learn if your Bledsoe County, Tennessee Genealogy ancestors went to prison!
- Inmates of the Tennessee State Penitentiary 1831-1850.
- Inmates of the Tennessee State Penitentiary 1851-1870.
Probate Records
Online Records
- 1779 – 2008 Tennessee Wills and Probate Records 1779-2008 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
Most of the original Bledsoe County Will Books were destroyed. Those that survived are held at the County Courthouse. In 1969, the TSLA microfilmed extant wills and inventories covering the years 1884 to 1931. A copy of their microfilm is also available at the Family History Library: FHL US/CAN Film 593008.
TSLA microfilmed Bledsoe County Tax Books 1888-1889 (TSLA Roll 104).
The following Bledsoe County tax records have been indexed:[12]
- 1815 - Curtis, Mary Barnett. Early East Tennessee Tax Lists. Fort Worth, Texas: Arrow Printing Company, 1964. FHL US/CAN Book 976.8 R4c. [Includes two 1815 petitions.]
- 1815 - Sistler, Byron and Barbara Sistler. Index to Early Tennessee Tax Lists. Evanston, Ill.: B. and B. Sistler, 1977. FHL US/CAN Book 976.8 R4s. [Includes 1815 tax list.]
- 1815 - Robnett, Elizabeth Parham. "Bledsoe County, TN 1815 Tax List Alphabetically Arranged," 1989. Available online at USGenWeb Archives.
- 1836 - Douthat, James L. Bledsoe County, Tennessee 1836 Tennessee Civil Districts and Tax Lists. Spring Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press, 1993. FHL US/CAN Book 976.876 R4d 1836; online: free surname index and publication details.
- 1862 - Tarriff of Fees, 1862, Tennessee Genealogy and History. Signal Mountain TN: Apr 1999. Vol. 3 Iss. 1.
Vital Records
Bledsoe County's early marriage records were lost in courthouse fires. The following publication, based on early newspapers that survived such disasters, may serve as a substitute:
- 1625-1966 - Tennessee, United States Marriages at FindMyPast — index $
- 1794 - 1851 - Lucas, Silas Emmett. Marriages from Early Tennessee Newspapers 1794-1851. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1978. FHL US/CAN Book 976.8 V2L.
- 1780 - 2002 - Tennessee State Marriage Index 1780-2002 at FamilySearch.org— index
- 1790 - 1950 - Tennessee County Marriages 1790-1950 at FamilySearch.org — index and images
- 1796 - 1950 - Tennessee Marriages 1796-1950 at FamilySearch.org — index
- 1838 - 1888 - Tennessee Civil Marriages, 1838-1888 at FamilySearch — index and images
- 1869 - 1909 - Tennessee Delayed Birth Records 1869-1909 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
- 1828 - 1939 - Tennessee Births and Christenings 1828-1939 at FamilySearch.org — index
- 1908 - 1912 - Tennessee, Birth Records (ER Series), 1908-1912 at FamilySearch — index and images
In 1940 and 1941, W.P.A. workers pinpointed the location of Bledsoe County divorce papers in diverse manuscript collections, see:
- W.P.A. Guide to Public Vital Statistics in Tennessee. Nashville, Tenn.: The Tennessee Historical Records Survey, 1941. FHL US/CAN Book 976.8 A3gp.
For deaths of Methodists in Bledsoe County between the 1830s and the 1920s, try:
- 1847 - 1851 - Smith, Jonathan K.T. Genealogical Abstracts from Reported Deaths, the Nashville Christian Advocate. [1847-1914] 10 vols. [Jackson, Tenn.]: J.K.T. Smith, 1997-2003. FHL US/CAN Books 976.855/N1 V48s 1847-1851 ff; digital versions at David Donahue Memorial: Tennessee Records Repository. Website expands upon the publications and includes deaths from the 1830s, 1840s, 1910s and 1920s.
- 1874 - 1955 - Tennessee Deaths and Burials 1874-1955 at FamilySearch.org — index
- 1908 - 1958 - Tennessee Death Records 1908 - 1958 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
- 1914 - 1966 - Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966 at FamilySearch — index and images
Family Bibles contain birth, marriage, and death information:
- Douthat, James L. Sequatchie Valley Bible Records. Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press, 1985. FHL US/CAN Book 976.8 A1 no. 103.
Bledsoe County Tennessee Genealogy Societies and Libraries
Bledsoe County Historical &; Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 465
Pikeville, TN 37367
Phone: 1-423-447-2817
East Tennessee Historical Society
601 S. Gay St.
P.O. Box 1629
Knoxville, TN 37901-1629
Phone: 1-865-215-8824
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Bledsoe County Public Library
478 Cumberland Ave/
P.O. Box 465
Pikeville, TN 37367
Phone: 1-423-447-2817
Mon., Tues., Wed., Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Thurs. 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sat. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
"The Bledsoe County Public Library is recognized by the TSLA as the Bledsoe County Archives and Historical Records Repository." Genealogical resources include family histories, the Cherokee and Melungeon books and files, the Soldiers' Pension Lists of 1792-1795, 1812, 1820 and 1890 as well as research materials for the Sequatchie Valley and adjoining counties.(per website) To see the library collection, see the genealogy page of the Bledsoe County Library website.
Family History Centers
Family history centers provide one-on-one assistance and free access to premium genealogical websites. In addition, many centers have free how-to genealogy classes. See family history center for more information. Search the online FHC directory for a nearby family history center.
Bledsoe County Tennessee Genealogy Websites
- Bledsoe County, TN Family History and Genealogy Message Board (Ancestry)
- Bledsoe County, TN Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
- Bledsoe County, TNGenWeb (USGenWeb) - county website, transcriptions and other information on the local level.
- FamilySearch Catalog (FamilySearch) — The catalog is genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) This catalog is different than the indexed Historical Records.
- Mailing List: TNBLEDSO-L (Bledsoe County, Tennessee List) (RootsWeb)
- Mailing List: ETN-L (East Tennessee List) (RootsWeb)
- Mailing List: ETN-OZ-L (East Tennessee Migrants to Ozarks Region List) (RootsWeb)
- Mailing List: SE-TN-L (Southeast Tennessee List) (RootsWeb)
Bledsoe County Tennessee Genealogy References
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Bledsoe, Tennessee" in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bledsoe_County,_Tennessee accessed 11 Dec 2018
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Bledsoe County, Tennessee. Page 638-645 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002; Alice Eichholz, ed. Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources, Third ed. (Provo, Utah: Ancestry, 2004), 637-640.
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Bledsoe County, Tennessee page 638, At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ "List of counties in Tennessee," Wikipedia.
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, UT: Everton Publishers, 2002), 638. (FHL Book 973 D27e 2002). WorldCat entry.
- ↑ Voice of Lynnae Weller, Kingsport, Tenn. (2010).
- ↑ Voice of Louise Lynch, Archivist, Williamson County, Tennessee Archives (2010).
- ↑ Lost Records: Courthouse Fires and Disasters in Tennessee in Tennessee State Library and Archives in Tennessee Secretary of State (accessed 13 March 2016).
- ↑ Mary Barnett Curtis, Early East Tennessee Tax Lists: a compiled list of residents of the area covered in 22 east Tennessee counties for which there is (sic) no census records prior to 1830 (Fort Worth, Texas: Arrow Printing, 1964) [FHL 976.8 R4c].
- ↑ WPA. Guide to Church Vital Statistics in Tennessee. Nashville: Tennessee State Planning Commission, 1942. FHL 976.8 K23w
- ↑ Kenneth Scott. British Aliens in the United States During the War of 1812. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979, 372-378 (see East Tennessee). FHL US/CAN 973 W4s; digital version at Ancestry ($).
- ↑ The Heritage Quest Online version of PERSI aided in the compilation of this list.


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Louis Armstrong with Andy Iona and His Islanders
Recorded March 24, 1937
Recorded in New York City
Louis Armstrong, trumpet, vocal; Sam Koko, steel guitar; George Archer, Harry Baty, guitar; Andy Iona, ukulele; Joe Nawahi, bass
Originally released on Decca 1216
Currently available on CD: It's on the Mosaic box set of Armstrong's Decca recordings from 1935-1946
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Okay everybody, sing with me in your best Louis Armstrong voice: ba-bop-du-DET-de-dot-du-yeah!
All right, that doesn't look as good transcribed--feel free to add the syllables of your choice--but it's the quintessential Armstrong break, a favorite of his both vocally and on trumpet and one that Armstrong impersonators can't resist (think Ella Fitzgerald at the end of "Tenderly"). And 75 years ago today, Louis Armstrong committed it to wax for the very first time.
On a Hawaiian song. With Hawaiian musicians.
Now, judging by how you reacted to those last two sentences says a lot about your worship of Louis Armstrong. If you're a die-hard nut like myself, you probably just smiled fondly at the memory of Louis's Hawaiian tunes. If you're more casual, you might be curious or might admit that you haven't spent much time with these sides. And if you're a jazz purist or an Armstrong detractor, you might have scoffed loudly at the mere notion.
I'm not going to insist that you have to like these songs...but really, what's not to like? I think they're irresistible but many others have not felt that way. Gunther Schuller paid no attention to Louis's Hawaiian records, nor his timeless meeting with the Mills Brothers, writing them off a "nearly a year-long dalliance with assorted Hawaiians and vocal quartets" and "wondering whether the time spent with these groups could not have been put to better use." When Mosaic Records did their usual heroic job with Louis's Decca recordings, a review on the All About Jazz website referred to the Hawaiian sessions as "undeniable misfires."
I'm sorry, but I'm denying that. I think these sessions are utterly charming and like a lot of Louis's Decca work during period, prove that Louis could make gold out of just about anything. I have used "On a Little Bamboo Bride" during a few of my Armstrong lectures, often to demonstrate that ability, and it has never failed to enchant my audiences. If you haven't paid attention to these sessions, give me a few minutes, listen to them in full and then let me know what you think.
I should start right out with a disclaimer: the two tracks I'm about discuss were from Armstrong's SECOND session with Hawaiians. On August 18, 1936, he recorded with "The Polynesians" in Los Angeles, an authentic Hawaiian group with Lionel Hampton sitting in on drums and vibes. That session really should have gotten a 75th anniversary post but when that anniversary came and went, I was immersed in book tour duties (and at home, new baby duties). That session produced two magical numbers, "To You, Sweetheart Aloha" and "On a Coconut Island," which seems to be everyone's favorite Armstrong Hawaiian number. In fact, I included it when I helped with the track list for Universal's "Ambassador of Jazz" boxed set because I wanted more people to hear it. And as some of you might now, I moonlight as a pianist averaging about two gigs a month, most often with my partner Bootsy Spankins, P.I. (stage name of Brendan Castner), and those two tracks are in our permanent repertoire with Bootsy handling the vocal and ukulele chores. Maybe one day I'll blog about those two but for now, you have my permission to head off and listen to them.
The records must have been a success. Louis didn't record anything else in the final 4 1/2 months of 1936 and started 1937 in an auspicious way with a throat operation that sidelined him for a bit (and greatly contributed to the ultra-rough rasp that became his trademark in later years). He finally made it back to Decca's studio in March 1937 and who was waiting for him? Luis Russell's big band? White studio musicians? Sidney Bechet? A gospel choir?
Nope. Andy Iona and His Islanders.
Thus, the 1936 session must have sold well enough for Jack Kapp to want to do it all over again the following year. Andy Iona was a Hawaiian native who became one of the must influential Hawaiian musicians for his ability to blend island and swing rhythms. Let's listen to what Iona sounded like without Louis, on a recording from 1936, "Vana Vana":
Hot stuff! And here's the timeless "Hawaiian War Chant" (which always gives me fond memories of Spike Jones, Tex Avery cartoons and Roy Eldridge solos):
So now you know about Andy Iona. Let's get to the first tune of the day, "On a Little Bamboo Bridge." Decca was already pushing this version as steel guitar/ukulele Roy Smeck had just recorded it for the label on January 12. Here's how Smeck did it:
Now with all of that out of the way, let's listen to Pops:
Did that not just make your day? I know it made mine. It's so charming and do damn swinging and Pops sounds right at a home. Sam Koki's steel guitar takes the atmospheric intro before Iona and his two guitarists start their infectious Hawaiian shuffle. And then it's time for Pops, his voice still surprisingly bell-clear and beautiful after the throat surgery (it would be much more gravelly on his next session with the Mills Brothers from two weeks later). He's obviously feeling the song, swinging gently, throwing in a few "Mmms" for good measure, but not changing the melody too much on this first go-around.
After that lovely chorus, Koki takes the lead for a half-chorus. It's almost easy to close your eyes, lose yourself in the Hawaiian sounds and forget about Louis completely...until he enters at 1:54 in with his trumpet and plays THE BREAK. Yes, folks, there it is, its first time on record, and as we're about to see, far from his last.
Muted, Louis takes the bridge in a relaxed fashion and even ends with a tricky, inside-out break. His trumpet serves as an instrumental extension of his voice, swinging the melody and holding notes where "Mmm's" would have been if this was a vocal. But when he gets to the last note of the melody, he doesn't play it. Instead, he pulls his horn from his chops and scats THE BREAK. So there it is again, 37 seconds after he discovered it with his trumpet, he's already giving out with it with his voice.
Now he's really feeling it. Louis's vocal reprises usually gave him the license to take more liberties with the written lyric and this one is no different. The space he leaves before singing the line "silvery ripples on the shore" all on one pitch has to be my favorite moment of the vocal. Very passionate stuff. When he gets to the last eight bars--prefaced with a big "Ohhh"--he's a full swing mode, his phrasing growing more declamatory as he goes on. And when he gets to the end of the vocal--and the record--how does he end it? Yes, with THE BREAK, scatted one more time.
Three times in little over three minutes! And with that, arguably Louis's most famous lick was immortalized on record. One day when I have a few years to waste, I'll count every other time he sang or played it over the next 34 years of his recording career....
The next tune to be recorded was "Hawaiian Hospitality" by Harry Owens and Ray Kenney. Once again, Decca had an interest in the song as Ted Fio Rito (hello, Honeymooners fans!) had just waxed a version on February 19, 1937. That version isn't on YouTube (but there are later versions by the Mills Brothers and some Hawaiian groups) so let's just dive in with Pops:
Once again, Koki sets it up before Louis comes in with a few delightful lines in Hawaiian. Throughout his long, storied career, Louis had to sing at various times in German, Italian and in this case, Hawaiian, and every time out, he swung. Like the rest of the Hawaiian tunes, this one will stick in your head for a while. Louis giving it the loving treatment again (I like the way he sings the Hawaiian words "wahine," "okolehao" and "welakahao"). The arrangement is almost identical to "Bamboo Bridge" with Koki taking 16 bars before muted Louis comes in to play the pretty bridge. Midway through the final eight bars, Louis goes up and ends with some well-phrased high notes, not in the stratosphere but appropriately effective. The vocal reprise is very pretty but the unique melody does not allow itself to the kind of swinging re-phrasing Louis offered on the Hawaiian tunes. He does change up the phrasing when he gets into the final eight but then he sticks to the melody until his effervescent reading of the tune's final line, "It's just the old Hawaiian Hospitality." A charming record.
And that ended Louis's rendezvous with Hawaiian music, unless you count later live and studio remakes of "Song of the Islands," which Louis first recorded in 1930, proving that he could be right at home with this music. Last week, I talked about these sides with Michael Steinman over at the Louis Armstrong House Museum and both of lamented that Jack Kapp never got Louis into the studio to record a full album's worth of Hawaiian songs. Oh well, we can't regret what never was, all we can do is enjoy Louis's four Hawaiian outings for Decca over and over and over again. Hope you enjoyed them as much as I do!
Saturday, March 24, 2012
75 Years of Louis Armstrong with Andy Iona and His Islanders
Posted by Ricky Riccardi at 3/24/2012 12:00:00 AM
2 comments:
- Michael said...
MAHALO, dear Ricky!
- March 24, 2012 at 8:45 AM
- Pete Kelly's Blog said...
Hi Ricky- Great Session and Nice Blog.
Yours, Real Hawaiians including Myself.
- March 24, 2012 at 3:06 PM
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Robert Woods beat Corey Graham, playing Webb's place, on a 42-yard touchdown pass off of play action from Bills quarterback E.J. Manuel to put Buffalo ahead 13-7 with a little less than nine minutes to go in the first half.
Webb has been out of the game for the last two series for the Ravens and is on the sideline with his helmet off. The team has announced that he is questionable to return with a thigh injury.
The Ravens defense had been strong up until that point in the game, holding the Bills to a pair of field goals while the offense struggled in the early going. Joe Flacco threw a pick to set up the Bills in Buffalo territory before one of those field goals, but rebounded with a touchdown pass to Marlon Brown early in the second quarter.
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We also introduced a new range of Coffee capsules in six Fairtrade blends made from high-quality arabica beans.
Our popular M&S Café expresso blend has been Fairtrade and organic since 2004. All of the tea served in our cafes has also been Fairtrade since 2004
M&S have a great selection of Fairtrade wines, produced from Fairtrade certified vineyards, where growers are paid a fair price for their grapes, allowing workers to invest in their communities. Look out for Peacock Tail Sauvignon Blanc - fresh and intensely aromatic, it's produced in the Stellenbosch region of South Africa by Koopmanskloof.
Elsewhere in the foodhall you can find Fairtrade flowers and chocolate as well as biscuits and jam made with Fairtrade sugar.
It's all part of our ongoing commitment to Fairtrade as part of Plan A –find out more here.


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Sell Your IPhone, Earn Bitcoins; Glyde CEO on New Virtual Currency Payout
Betting a bitcoin payout will motivate more people to sell their old gadgets, Glyde Inc. is offering the virtual currency to customers.
Since launching in 2009, the electronic thrift shop has allowed people to easily sell their old iPhones, tablets and other devices, much like eBay Inc. and startups Nextworth Inc. and Gazelle Inc. The company suggests a price, provides a shipping envelope and takes roughly 10% of each transaction.
Expanding its payout to sellers from U.S. dollars to bitcoin is a next step calculated to bring more sellers to the site and possibly generate some fresh revenue on the exchange margins, according to Glyde Chief Executive Drew Lieberman.