Discussion opener for GRGR(5)

[Paul Mackin]

Tom's first hand info on "Jackson" as jivetalk, plus his Kalamazoo
konnection somehow brought to mind the old song. Isn't there a line
in it that goes "Howdy, Mr. Jackson, everything's Okay-a-l-a-m-o-
etc., etc.?

Does the song appear in GR? I'ts "sister" Chattanooga Choo Choo does
later on.

Both of Glenn Miller/Tex Beneke origin if I'm remembering right.

So . . .
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> Also, WHO the fuck is Jackson? ("Jackson, I don't give a . . .")

When I first read GR I asked my now departed mother about slang like
"Jackson" (she was a WAC in WW2 and got to see a lot of the country 
before she met dad). Anyway, she'd heard it used as a generic address, 
much like we use "man" today, e.g., "Say, Jackson..." It was also used 
in rhyming slang ("What's the action, Jackson?"). She said it wasn't
widely used except by "hipsters," which for her meant anyone who had
not come from Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she was raised & I was
eventually born. She read through parts of the book out of curiosity
& pronounced the WW2 details "very accurate, but a bit obsecene."