[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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