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Thread #73355   Message #1273528
Posted By: GUEST,JTT
16-Sep-04 - 06:18 PM
Thread Name: What Does Valderi, Valdera Mean?
Subject: RE: What Does Valderi, Valdera Mean?
This embarrassing explanation is:

F.F.F. is a tune, originally written and performed by Slim & Slam (Slim
Gaillard and Slam Stewart) that got very popular in the 40's. A floogie is a
lady of easy virtue -- the floy is V.D. Not an elegant lyric, but succinct at
any rate.

Slam Stewart, who died only a couple of years ago, was a very active bass
player in the late swing and early bebop period. He would improvise double
bass solos arco, and sing along with himself an octave higher: in-tune,
musical as all get-out (catch him on 'Dizzy Atmosphere', with Parker and
Gillespie). It was a great sound -- like St. Colombe and one of his daughters,
all in one.