[Dixielandjazz] Louis Nye's "Hipster at the Bank"?

Robert Ringwald rsr at ringwald.com
Sun Jun 6 10:29:23 PDT 2010


Harry Callaghan wrote:

> Bob:
> 
> Have you ever heard Louis Nye's "Hipster at the Bank"?
> 
> He takes on the role of a jazz musician who is trying to get a loan from a
> bank to get his horn out of hock and rejoin Jimmie Lunceford's orchestra,
> refusing to accept the fact that Jimmie has been deceased.for some time
> 
> Sample:  Bank officer asks him his name.
> 
> "Lips Elliott"
> 
> "No, your real name?"
> 
> "Harold".
> 
> "Ok, Harold Elliott"
> 
> "No, Lips Harold"
> 
> "Lips Harold, that certainly is a strange name"
> 
> "Well man, like that's why I changed it to Elliott"
> 
> It is truly a classic.
> 
> Harry



No, I don't think I have heard it, unless it was many, many years ago, CRS you know...  

Sounds great!  

--Bob Ringwald





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