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| | The Golden Years |
 | | For the remaining years of his life, Louis led his All Stars, a six-piece band which featured, to begin with, Jack Teagarden, a long time friend on trombone, Earl 'Fatha' Hines, from the Hot 5 band on piano, Arvell Shaw on bass, and Velma Middleton, continuing to share the vocals with him. |
 | | Until Louis recorded the song "Mack The Knife" from the German opera called "The Three Penny Opera", by Kurt Weill (music) and Bertold Brecht (libretto), in 1955, the song and the opera were unknown even to opera fans. |
 | | It was at that time, he learned, the song "Hello Dolly" (a song he didn't even remember recording in New York) was such a huge international hit that it knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts in the States. |
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