Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for December 05, 2020

Good for you, Marcie! Shake your money-maker!

Boogie Woogie Blues:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMCaHD91dyc

The cigs bother Mervin greatly tho… that and the fact that she now talks like a “B” movie from the 1930s.

It kind of misses something when played on the Wurlitzer, though.

I LOVE boogie woogie! Along with other styles, of course, but it can certainly liven up a dull moment.

To think he was once the boogie woogie bugle boy of company B.

Mervin’s thinking “Don’t try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll!”

Actually it’s hard to have the blues when you are boogie-woogian.

What’s the name of the comedy song about the musician visiting London, and he gets run in for playing “bougie wougie”?

She thought of everything, even smoldering cigarettes to set the mood (neither of them smoke).

I notice Mervin appears to be wearing earplugs.. perhaps, just a guess mind you.. he is not so much into boogie woogie.

Oddly, the best boogie woogie player today comes from that bastion of blues, the Netherlands. If you don’t know him, check out Martijn Schok.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsQoVADvg58

She’s going to need a new name though. Ziggie or Shoogie or something like that.

For some strange reason this put an ear worm in my head. Dixie Chicken, the Little Feat version.

Is Mervin in danger of catching the Rockin’ Pneumonia?

Marcie used to boogie-woogie with Mervin, but now she just boogie-woogies alone.