Tracking the Spoor of the Signifying Monkey
How did the sound of a 1937 car crash become an unlikely pop craze?
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Dolemite and the Signifying Monkey
How did the sound of a 1937 car crash become an unlikely pop craze?
Andy Razaf’s Black and Blue Life
The following originally appeared in the GRAND JUNCTION FREE PRESS:
Buddy, pull yourself together.
You think you got it bad? Listen — you don’t know even know what B-A-D really spells. I hear you moaning about your mortgage… whining about the wife… grousing over the cost of gas. What’s that sound I hear? That’s the world’s smallest […]
