User:Pdebee/My sandbox6

Introduction

The purpose of this user page is to enable me to experiment with improving prose extracted from existing articles in main space, without running the risk of interfering in any way with the original article, or causing edit conflicts there. It is a useful sandbox when working on particularly difficult or protracted pieces of text.

The idea is to copy the original prose into the "Before" section below and then work on it in the "After" section until it's done. This way, it's easy to refer back to the original extract in the "Before" section, while experimenting with successive changes in the "After" section.

When done, the improved text can be copied back to replace the original in the article itself in one clean edit, and the "Before" and "After" sections can then be emptied until the next project. The optional "Comments" section can be used as a notepad for reminders, or for suggestions to another editor when working on a joint project.

Article: Slim Gaillard

Before

1930s

Gaillard first rose to prominence in the late 1930s as part of Slim & Slam, a jazz novelty act he formed with bassist Slam Stewart. Their hits included "Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)", "Cement Mixer (Put-Ti Put-Ti)" and the hipster anthem, "The Groove Juice Special (Opera in Vout)". The duo performs in the 1941 movie Hellzapoppin'.

Gaillard's appeal was similar to Cab Calloway and Louis Jordan in that he presented a hip style with broad appeal (for example in his children's song "Down by the Station"). Unlike them, he was a master improviser whose stream of consciousness vocals ranged far afield from the original lyrics, along with wild interpolations of nonsense syllables such as MacVoutie O-reeney. One such performance is celebrated in the 1957 novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac.

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Comments

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