We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.

We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any