Food

“America is certainly the great melting pot. Where else could someone like Slim Gaillard sing a tribute to matzoh balls and gefilte fish? It's the kind of thing that makes me proud to be an American. Sing it, Slim.”

“A songster from the medicine shows of Memphis…Jim Jackson's popularity was surprisingly phenomenal. He waxed 50 titles in less than three years.”

“The Beat Poets were all big fans of Bebop, and here's the king of Bebop, the spitball king, playing some of his Chinese music, Dizzy Gillespie, on the Atkins Diet…Crazy daddy-o!”

“The consummate entertainer, not just singing but also playing that wild alto saxophone, and he's got quite an appetite.”

“Sounds like a wild affair.”

“A song that sorta sounds like a nursery rhyme.”