change from the bottom up

[Wilson Gray]

Aha! That implies that the expansion, "*stone* outta luck," that I'm
most accustomed to hearing, is but another euphemism.

-Wilson

On 4/25/07, George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu> wrote:
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> In the mid 1920, Louis Armstrong made a recording called SOL Blues.  Someone at his record company made him redo the song a week later under the title "Gully Low Blues".
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> Discographical details upon request.  Both versions of the song are now available.
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> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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> >  If, as I suppose, SOL means "shit outta luck," I can say I've heard the
> >  latter plenty of times, but never the former, that I can recall.
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