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...cooked up some good ones before. Among them: Ain't Misbehavin', I've Got a Feelin' I'm Fallin', Keepin' Out of Mischief Now. Waller has collaborated with many a lyricist. Some of his best results he turned out with Andy Razaf, his favorite poet next to Longfellow.* During one rewarding session in retreat at Anbury Park, N.J., the two men turned out Zonky, My Fate Is in Your Hands and Honeysuckle Rose in two hours. Razaf had enticed Waller into his mother's Asbury Park home for a productive session away...
Once a dewy-eyed young thing stopped Fats and inquired, "Mr. Waller, what is swing?" Said he: "Lady, if you got to ask, you ain...
Commenting on the Paramoshiri raid, the commander of the U.S. bomber groups in China, Colonel Eugene Beebe, said "They ain't seen nothing...
Dodd's hardest job used to be getting directors to take his advice. Once a director wanted the wedding guests to cap the ceremony by singing I Ain't Gonna Sin No More. Dodd had to threaten to walk off the lot if the director persisted. But those were the early days. Now directors more readily bow to Dodd...
...gypsies that I run myself knock-kneed looking after their personal welfare, I am king." A gin drinker, Johnny mixes it with Pepsi-Cola, calls it old popskull, consumes five quarts of gin a week. Johnny believes there are but two kinds of merchandise: "lost and unlost. Anything that ain't nailed down is lost." Johnny gets easily worked up over the idea of a job. "I despise to work," he says. "Gypsy men ain't built like ordinary men. They ain't fitted for shovel work. They're high-strung and they rupture easy...