I just thought of one other thing that Louis Armstrong and Ted Hawkins could kind of agree on (assuming they were ever to strike up a conversation).

Armstrong, who turned to gold, some not-entirely-golden ditties like "Blueberry Hill," told interviewers: "There are no bad songs, only bad singers."   That is the sort of opinion that divides people from that day to this! It had sense if you applied it to larger-than-life Armstrong.

And it works for Ted Hawkins in a way. Some of his songs are better than others. When he covers the songs written by other songwriters, he is discriminating and shrewd. There are tunes and lyrics written by Hawkins that are fairly ordinary EXCEPT when Hawkins commands one's attention by singing them himself.