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===Pronunciation of name=== The Louis Armstrong House Museum website states: {{blockquote|Judging from home recorded tapes now in our Museum Collections, Louis pronounced his own name as "Lewis." On his 1964 record "Hello, Dolly", he sings, "This is Lewis, Dolly", but in 1933, he made a record called "Laughin' Louie." Many broadcast announcers, fans, and acquaintances called him "Louie", and in a videotaped interview from 1983, Lucille Armstrong calls her late husband "Louie" as well. Musicians and close friends usually called him "Pops".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/faq/|title=FAQ β Louis Armstrong House Museum|work=louisarmstronghouse.org|access-date=June 14, 2017|archive-date=August 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808074334/https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/faq/|url-status=live}}</ref>}} In a memoir written for [[Robert Goffin]] between 1943 and 1944, Armstrong stated, "All white folks call me Louie", suggesting that he himself did not, or that no whites addressed him by one of his nicknames such as Pops.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Armstrong |first1=Louis |last2=Brothers |first2=Thomas |year=2001 |title=Louis Armstrong, In His Own Words: Selected Writings |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fdxDDe-fb8sC&pg=PA109 |page=109 |location=New York |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0195140460 |access-date=December 8, 2014 |archive-date=September 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915205007/https://books.google.com/books?id=fdxDDe-fb8sC&pg=PA109 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Goffin, Robert. ''Horn of Plenty: The Story of Louis Armstrong''. Da Capo Press, 1977. {{ISBN|0306774305}}{{page needed|date=December 2022}}</ref> That said, Armstrong was registered as "Lewie" for the [[United States Census, 1920|1920 U.S. Census]]. On various live records, he is called "Louie" on stage, such as on the 1952 "Can Anyone Explain?" from the live album ''In Scandinavia vol.1''. The same applies to his 1952 studio recording of the song "Chloe", where the choir in the background sings "Louie ... Louie", with Armstrong responding, "What was that? Somebody called my name?". "Lewie" is the French pronunciation of "Louis" and is commonly used in Louisiana.
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