Slim Gaillard, "Searching For You: The Lost Singles of McVouty 1958-1974" (Sunset Blvd.) It's a funny thing about "jump blues" and pre-rock R&B from the late-'40s and early '50s: Once upon a time, it ...

Slim Gaillard would have turned 100 this week. While many people won’t instantly recognize his name, they have probably heard such eccentric Slim hits as “Cement Mixer (Put-Ti-Put-Ti)” and “Flat Foot ...

?1. There?s No Two Ways About It - Unknown - 2.53; ?2. ?Cause My Baby Says It?s So - Unknown - 2.40; ?3. The Flat Foot Floogie - Gaillard, Stewart - 2.49; ?4. Chinatown, My Chinatown - Jerome, ...

Does it really matter if Slim Gaillard was born in Detroit, Michigan or Santa Clara, Cuba? Is it important to know with certainty whether he was accidentally abandoned for half a year in Crete by his ...

Possibly no musician has ever had more fun than Slim Gaillard, a guitarist and jive singer popular in the late ‘40s and early ‘50s.... (Hang on, there’ll be a food angle eventually. Just wait.) ...

BECAUSE he relied so heavily on the hip jargon of the 1940s, much of it of his own invention, Gaillard has dated rather more than fellow jazz humorists like Fats Waller and Louis Jordan. Neither did ...