OT: Melorooney Vout

billfromnorthwales billfromnorthwales@...
Tue Jul 23 21:40:55 CEST 2013


mellow rooney it is

look in this newspaper from 1946

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>

The Slim Gaillard trio, known for its recording of "Cement
Mixer" and "The Road to Pomona"
heads the list of entertainment. Gaillard, who speaks seven languages as
well as his own "vout-o-reenie, yep-rock, mellow rooney"
dialect,
will be accompanied by Tiny Brown, bass. ETC
--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "billfromnorthwales"  wrote:
>
> 34:44 on "1977-xx-zz BBC R1 Alexis..." etc file.
>
> Are they bit noisy (hiss/rumble)these files? I didn't do any NR etc.
>
>
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Alan Ford ford.alan@ wrote:
> >
> > I've just been listening to an Alexis Korner show where he plays
'Chicken
> > Rhythm' by Slim Gaillard.
> > Apparently SG devised his own language, called Vout, and the song is
> > introduced by a DJ who says something like "Things are meloroony
vout and
> > oh dig it".
> > While I'm confident that I've never heard this song before, I am
equally
> > confident that I've heard that DJ line sampled on another record
somewhere.
> > Does anyone else recognise it?
> >
> > I've tried googling various spellings and permutations, but all I
got was
> > "Do you mean Wayne Rooney out"?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Alan
> >
>



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