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MaryLyon <MaryLyon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Greetings:
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> I was listening to the Village Vortex song today (can't recall the
> title - but it's the one where Ruth is barking for the club). The part
> where the song goes into all the slang was really amusing me - and I
> noticed they used the words "jackson" and "solid," two slang words
> used often in Betty Hutton's "Murder, He Says."
>
> I gather that "jackson" and "solid" were fairly common slang at the
> time, I guess, at least among the zoot suit set...but do you think
> either of these songs is directly referencing the other as something
> of an in-joke? I am not sure which song was written first.
>
> Can you name any other songs that use these words as "hep" slang?
>
> Cheers!
> Amy :)
Tons of stuff from the late 30s and 40's!
John Lee Hooker has a song SOLID SENDER (don't know the date, tho) -
"You're the solid sender, babe..."
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"A Conversation While Dancing" (1944) written by Johnny Mercer and Paul
Weston, and sung by Mercer and Jo Stafford. "You're a solid sender, and
the band is a real ear-bender." "But why are we talking this shop? Mop!
Mop!"
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Roy Milton had a band in 1933 called the Solid Senders, so the term has
been around at least since then.
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