Hmm. I guess she - and several others who had known her long enough to have gone to clubs with her where he was playing when she was young - may have misinformed me, Dave. Or, given the state both she & I were usually in in those days, perhaps I am disremembering the details. She was supposed to have had some connection to the tune & to Duke.
(And, at about 60, living on a bar stool, her spine twisted with rheumatoid arthritis, chain-smoking while constantly wrapped around a G&T, she still had enough of whatever it was [/size]she'd had back then[/size] that my 22-y-o eyes could see it; this was one high-class dame, I'm tellin' ya!)
Peter
