He even published a dictionary of hepcat phrases, which found their way into his novelty numbers, including the aforementioned songs, plus “Yip Roc Heresy” (pronounced ha-REE-see), “Laughing in Rhythm,” “Tee Say Malee,” and many others too vout-oroonie to mention. Slim was way into the nonsense syllables. Slim Gaillard is, sadly, mostly forgotten now, but those who do remember him are probably thinking of his 1938 hit “Flat Foot Floogie” or his post-war composition “Cement Mixer” (“Cement mixer, put-ti, put-ti”). Then, I was listening recently to an anthology that included a song by swing musician/songwriter Slim Gaillard when I realized that it was he who was responsible for “Dunkin’ Bagel.” Now I keep a compilation that includes that song around for when the mood hits me. But I never got around to tracking it down. Many brain cells ago, in a bar in, I think, Phoenix, I heard a western swing band doing a song that, to a hopped-up descending string of chords (like “Minnie the Moocher”), repeated “Dunkin’ bagel, dunkin’ bagel, dunkin’ bagel/ Splash! In the coffee.” That line has come into my brain over the years, seemingly out of the blue, and it always makes me smile. Here’s a video of him and bassman-sidekick Slam Stewart (as Slim & Slam) performing “Dunkin’ Bagel,” followed by what I wrote then about Mr. In my post Food, Glorious Food, I included a little bit about musical hepcat Slim Gaillard.
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