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It was Armstrong's 1926 performance, however, that was the turning point for the medium.

According to Armstrong, when he was recording the song " Heebie Jeebies ", soon to be a national bestseller, with his band The Hot Five, his music fell to the ground.

Not knowing the lyrics to the song, he invented a gibberish melody to fill time, expecting the cut to be thrown out in the end, but that take of the song was the one released.

The story is widely believed to be apocryphal, but the influence of the recording was nonetheless enormous.