Let Me Off Uptown (1942)
Roy Eldridge: Self, Trumpet Player
Quotes
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Anita O'Day : Hey, Joe.
Roy Eldridge : What do you mean Joe? My name's Roy.
Anita O'Day : Well, come here Roy and get groovy.
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Roy Eldridge : Anita, oh Anita, say I feel somethin'.
Anita O'Day : Whatcha feel Roy? The heat?
Roy Eldridge : No, it ain't the heat. It must be that uptown rhythm. Because, I feel like blowin'.
Anita O'Day : Well, blow Roy, blow!
[Roy blows, Krupa's band genuflects]
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Anita O'Day : You've been uptown?
Roy Eldridge : No, I ain't been uptown, but I've been around.
Anita O'Day : You mean to say you ain't been uptown?
Roy Eldridge : No, I haven't been uptown. What's uptown?
Anita O'Day : [singing] If it's pleasure you're about, And you feel like steppin' out, All you've got to shout, Let me off uptown.