“You A Spade & I’m An O-Fay. We Got the Same Soul. Let’s Blow ”

( – promoted by buhdydharma )

Jack Teagarden and Louis Armstrong, “Ole Rocking Chair.”

At the end of the video (courtesy of YouTuber pinkieldred) these words appear … you hear a narrator reading, I believe, something Mr. Louis Armstrong wrote about the time he first met Mr. Jack Teagarden.

One day when I was playing on the riverboat, we put into New Orleans and standing on the levee was this tall white cat named Jack Teagarden who wanted to meet me.  He was from Texas and I never heard of him, but he said, “You a spade, and I’m an o-fay.  We got the same soul.  Let’s blow.”

The rest, as is said, would only be commentary.

Tuesday in America, almost autumn of 2009.  Beat in the USA.

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  1. … jelly bean?

    • Edger on September 16, 2009 at 03:18

    ^^

    OO


  2. Get everybody and his stuff together.

    OK, 3, 2, 1, let’s jam:

  3. His hero? ‘Nuff said.

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