Hoagy Carmicahel on Muggles (was: The Stouffer case)

snazzzybird carmenharms at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 25 03:22:18 UTC 2002


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Caius Marcius" <coriolan at w...> wrote:
> Reviewing the court decision, I saw that Louis Armstrong wrote a 
> song in 1928 called Muggles. I tried to Google the lyrics to assess 
> them for their filkability, but I found that Muggles is an 
> instrumental piece. However, I did find this passage from Tin Pan 
> Alley Master Hoagy Carmichael on one definition of Muggles I do not 
> recall seeing before:
> 
<snipped excerpt>

Hmmmmmmm... so a "muggle" is the same thing as a "doobie".  I wonder 
if Stouffer will sue the Doobie Brothers next.

--snazzzybird, who is so very, very glad that Stouffer's big con 
didn't succeed.






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