Hep Cats Jive Talk Dictionary

[Stompin at the Savoy]

https://archive.org/details/hepcats-jive-talk-dictionary-1945.-t.-w.-o.-charles-d-m-ia/mode/2up

[Big Beat Steve]

A nice one! 

Bought an original through eBay sometime in the early 2000s and then made several photocopied and staspled sets (with color cover and all) and passed them on to cats in today's hepcats scene around here. All copies were snapped up in no time at all. 

Sometime ago (while searching for Down Besats, I think) I noticed it's now online and dowmloaded the file "just in case". 

I wonder when someone is going to put Dan Burley's Jive dictionary online (not just the bare contents - they are somewhere out there, as is the one by Cab Calloway) but the exact facsimile. 

Here's a more recent publication for recommended reading on the same subject: 

https://www.amazon.com/Straight-Fridge-Dad-Dictionary-Hipster/dp/0767908406

 

[Stompin at the Savoy]

1 hour ago, Big Beat Steve said:

A nice one! 

Bought an original through eBay sometime in the early 2000s and then made several photocopied and staspled sets (with color cover and all) and passed them on to cats in today's hepcats scene around here. All copies were snapped up in no time at all. 

Sometime ago (while searching for Down Besats, I think) I noticed it's now online and dowmloaded the file "just in case". 

I wonder when someone is going to put Dan Burley's Jive dictionary online (not just the bare contents - they are somewhere out there, as is the one by Cab Calloway) but the exact facsimile. 

Here's a more recent publication for recommended reading on the same subject: 

https://www.amazon.com/Straight-Fridge-Dad-Dictionary-Hipster/dp/0767908406

 

Thanks Steve, I will check that out!  Another fun source is the glossary in Bernard Wolfe's bio of Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues.    ( https://archive.org/details/reallyblues0000mezz/page/370/mode/2up )

[ghost of miles]

Here’s an article about the 1944 Burley handbook of jive. I have a paperback reprint that includes it and Burley’s 1959 book Diggeth Thou?:

Dan Burley’s Jive

I have a friend here in town, also a Burley fan, who happened upon one of the original Calloway jive volumes that were sold at Cab’s shows in the 1940s. It was a flea-market score iirc.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by ghost of miles