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ooglyooogly (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I met Slim near the end of his life when he was guesting at London Gigs with a bunch of guys I know called The Chevalier Brothers.
Around this time he appeared in the movie Absolute Beginners and there was a 4 part BBC Arena documentary on his his life.
ShtotaKoya (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
so thats how you dance up tempo...
inthefrisco (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
its like fuckin martial arts
gadzooks63 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
jammin all the way . . .way to go guys . . .swing away . .
JustMyNipples (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
this is one of the best pieces of film ever recorded. I get goosebumps.
thanks for posting.
JosephNScott (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
"A draft induction is not a record of birth." No, it's a record of one of the times that Slim apparently claimed to have been born in Florida. Which he may well have been, given the Rothschild/Gillard next-door evidence that I found in the census myself only after reading the anecdote concerning T. Rothschild and L. Gaillard.
Patequi (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
A draft induction is not a record of birth. In his last recording made in London, UK. Slim sings about wanting to go back to Cuba. There are Gailards still living in Santa Clara, Cuba which bear a strong resemblance to Bulee-Slim-Gailard, one of the most mysterious gentlemen of jazz.
JosephNScott (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The song "Tutti Frutti" written by Doris Fisher and Slim Gaillard in 1938 may have influenced the song "Tutti Frutti" that Little Richard recorded, but the songs don't have much in common. When Gene Krupa recorded the Fisher-Gaillard "Tutti Frutti" in 1938, he assigned the lead vocal to one of his singers, Leo Watson -- who later recorded a lot with Slim.
JosephNScott (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
It's been claimed SG was b. in Pensacola and his dad was from Germany: Theopolous Rothschild (unmarried to his mom Liza Gaillard). There was in fact a Theopilus Rothschild who lived in Pensacola and was born in AL to parents born in Germany and Bavaria ('30 census) -- living next door to a "N[egro]" family, last name "Gillard". So, probably, SG knows he was born in FL, he knows some facts about dad that are almost right, he sometimes is candid about what he'd been told by family but often not.
JosephNScott (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Gaillard's draft induction record (12/11/42) says he was born in Florida. I'm not saying he was necessarily born in Florida, but maybe. It also says he had completed three years of high school, he was married, and he was 6'2". |
