[Dixielandjazz] Shaking hands with Eubie

[Jack Tracy]

  Butch Thompson wrote:
  > Remembering Eubie on his birthday, Ron L'Herault wrote:>
  >   
  >> I recall shaking his hand.  His fingers seemed to go on forever.
  >>     
  > Wasn't it George Shearing who said shaking hands with Fats Waller was like
  > grabbing a handful of bananas?
  >
  > Butch Thompson 
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  Don Ingle wrote>
  >
  > I wonder about that. Since Fats died in '43 and Shearing didn't get over until after the war, how was that handshake made? The whole world wants to know -- well maybe just me, ever the skeptic.
  >   
  On second thought, a look at some Fats film clips makes me wonder if the 
  remark was right after all.

  Don Ingle 

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  Maybe it was Fats Domino...........or Fats Navarro........or maybe Fats Waller played in England before the war and George met him then.......
  or maybe, George being blind and all, someone put a bunch of bananas in front of Shearing and said, "Meet Fats Waller."

  Life is just full of imponderables these days.

  Jack Tracy