[Dixielandjazz] Slim & Slam

[Stephen G Barbone]

>  Don Robertson <jdrobertson at att.net>
> 
> 
> Oh Yes, I remember Slim and Slam.  I think it was just Slim who did 
> Cement Mixer Putti Putti.  I don't remember their Tutti Frutti, but it 
> sure sounds like something they would do.

Hey Don:

Do you remember Slim Gaillard and Flat Foot Floogie With The Floy Floy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFVeJ4wHWdQ

All of us jazz musicians and hip folks in the 1940s/.50s knew that Floy Floy was
hip speak for VD, and that a Flat Foot Floogie was a street walking working girl. Legend has it the the word Floogie, was changed from Floozie in the original song title so that they could get past the censors and play it on the radio.

I loved these kinds of songs. How about the below Nat Cole Frim Fram Sauce:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYHuWhAt8V8

or Diana Krall's version at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZwecCPkUOM&feature=related

These are GREAT songs to add to a Dixieland Repertorie. I much prefer playing them rather that dragging out some tired old obscure song that few appreciate and cannot be made relevant to today's audiences.

BTW, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald did Frim Fram together  They are on the second song at the 3 minute mark, hear below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSwhIoCvw0E

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband