[Dixielandjazz] Carbaggio

[Robert S. Ringwald]

"There was a boy of Italian parentage named Carbaggio, born in Germany. 
Feeling
himself a misfit, with his dark curly hair among all those blond Nordic 
types, he
tries to be even more German than the Germans.  In late adolescence he flees 
to Paris,
where he steals one of those brass miniatures of the Eiffel Tower.  Arrested 
by the
police, he is given a choice of going to jail or leaving the country.  He 
boards
the first outbound ship and arrives in New York.  Thinking he would like a 
career
in communications, he goes to the RCA building in Rockefeller Plaza, takes 
an elevator
and walks into the office of General Sarnoff.  Sarnoff tells him that the 
only job
available is as a strikebreaker.  The boy takes it.  When the strike ends, 
he finds
himself on a union blacklist.  He goes to work making sonar equipment for a 
company
owned by a man
named Harris.  After several years, his English has improved to the point 
where he
gets a job as a disk jockey.  His show is called Rock Time.  He has 
fulfilled his
destiny:  He's a routine
teuton, Eiffel-lootin', Sarnoff goon from Harris Sonar, Rock Time 
Carbaggio."

Paul Desmond (and A N Other)
1954


--Bob Ringwald K6YBV
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