Thursday, October 04, 2007

ROCKIN' IN RHYTHM

Here, in this segment from a Timex All-Star Jazz Show from January 7, 1959, Jackie Gleason introduces a Duke Ellington number that provided a main theme of Dennis Potter's wonderful The Singing Detective. And, uh, I think that's Louis Armstrong sitting with Gleason.



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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey! Thanks for a jazzy start to my Thursday!

David Marc Fischer said...

No prob--I love that number!