-- related to him, 'cause, you know, blue-eyed skinny kid from Hoboken, New Jersey. But y'know, see Frank, man... Frank helped a *lot* of guys, y'know... he's the one that really catapulted Sammy Davis, Jr's career... he helped out Sammy a lot. And they used to work at the Paramount you know like, in the '40s -- bobby soxers days... but all that stuff was real segregated then. That's why everybody went uptown.. after the places closed downtown, everybody went uptown and hung out -- that's why Minton's Playhouse had it's famous after hours joint.
And the famous jam sessions that happened after hours... now, that was on 118th Street, between, uh... 7th Avenue and St. Nick. The after hours joint... the entrance was on the Saint Nicholas Avenue side, between 117th and 118th, down in the basement. To this day, the original piano is still down there, from the jam session. You see, 'cause, that was where George Gershwin and them went and hung out... and that's where they got a lot of the stuff.. y'know, that they got...
