From a discography

[Wilson Gray]

Cab Calloway: The Jumpin' Jive (_Help_, _Help_)


Given the lack of phonetic distinction between _hep_ and _help_, well,

Youneverknow

though nobody ever explained to me that way, before.

--
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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