[78-L] Peach Soda in Biloxi

[David Lennick]

Loesser also never visited Copenhagen, unfortunately. Thanks for the correction on Biloxi..that was something I hadn't known.

 

(What's playing at the Ruxy? Nah, just doesn't work.)

 

dl
 
> From: stevenc at interlinks.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 01:15:27 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Peach Soda in Biloxi
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> > As Frank Loesser put it:> What's playin' at the Roxy? I'll tell ya what's 
> > playin' at the Roxy.
> > Picture about a Minnesota guy so in love with a Mississippi girl
> > That he sacrifices everything and moves all the way to Biloxi...
> > That's what's playin' at the Roxy...
> >
> One big problem (which suggests he had never set foot anywhere near
> Biloxi...?!)!
> 
> Biloxi (as pronounced by residents of its district...!) does NOT rhyme
> with "Roxy!" It is properly pronounced "Bill-uks-y!" A few years ago,
> I used know (well, I still do?!) a lady who went by the name of "Roxy"
> (short for Roxanne?!) here in Oshawa...she wound up getting a local
> blues joint named after her, where I then played regularly!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 
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