Musical finales to Ontologic Atoms

Alan Westrope adwestro at ouray.cudenver.edu
Tue Aug 8 12:36:43 CDT 1995


On August 6, A Day at the Races (in more ways than one), Ted Samsel wrote:

> To wax musical, I'm sorry I can't recall all the words to the old "jass"
> standard, NAGASAKI. Form the '20s, I think, and Paul Whiteman (again I
> think) did the definitive ver.

> Down in Nagasaki
> Where the women chew tobaccy
> and they really like to
> wikki
> wakki
> woo!"

The song playing is one more lie about WhiteMan's crimes...again, in
mo' ways than one...hmmmm...catchy name for a Caucasian who made big
bucks marketing eviscerated jass -- nicht wahr, Weissmann?  :-)

And I'm surprised nobody noted August 6 as the fiftieth anniversary of
the end of Part 3 of _GR_, and the day the Feast of the Transfiguration
is celebrated!  I'm sure it didn't slip by Steven Weisenburger unnoticed.


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