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Armstrong's All Stars performed relentlessly all over the world in clubs, festivals, and concert halls. No matter where they performed, they were followed by admiring audiences. Armstrong made appearances at the Nice Jazz Festival, the first international jazz festival, and in Africa, where he was greeted and hailed by thousands.
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Armstrong recorded What A Wonderful World in 1967. It was released without promotion in the US and quickly went to the top of the charts in England, where it sold six hundred thousand copies. The ballad was not heard widely in the US until it was included in the sound track of the 1987 Barry Levinson hit film, Good Morning Vietnam, sixteen years after Armstrong's death.
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Shortly after World War II, Louis co-starred with vocalist Billie Holiday in the film New Orleans. Though the movie was not a hit, it would go down as a career highlight for both great singers, and Holiday cited Armstrong as one of her chief influences.
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After World War II, Armstrong traveled around the world giving concerts sponsored by the U.S. State Department. From these international tours, Armstrong was given the name "Ambassador Satch." And after he finally returned to New Orleans, he was given honorary keys to the city.
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Armstrong International's Concourse C, located in the airport's West Terminal, contains a fully enclosed US Customs, Immigration, and FIS facility. Eleven of the concourse's 15 gates offer direct access to this area and are ... capable of accepting foreign arrivals from all over the world, on aircraft as large as Boeing 747-400s.
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"I forget who it was that once said that Louie Armstrong was the greatest singer in the world without a voice. And he was because what Louie did to a song, nobody else could do."
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