Let Me Off Uptown (1942)

Roy Eldridge: Self, Trumpet Player

Quotes 

• Anita O'Day : Hey, Joe.

  Roy Eldridge : What do you mean Joe? My name's Roy.

  Anita O'Day : Well, come here Roy and get groovy.

• Roy Eldridge : Anita, oh Anita, say I feel somethin'.

  Anita O'Day : Whatcha feel Roy? The heat?

  Roy Eldridge : No, it ain't the heat. It must be that uptown rhythm. Because, I feel like blowin'.

  Anita O'Day : Well, blow Roy, blow!

  [Roy blows, Krupa's band genuflects] 

• Anita O'Day : You've been uptown?

  Roy Eldridge : No, I ain't been uptown, but I've been around.

  Anita O'Day : You mean to say you ain't been uptown?

  Roy Eldridge : No, I haven't been uptown. What's uptown?

  Anita O'Day : [singing]  If it's pleasure you're about, And you feel like steppin' out, All you've got to shout, Let me off uptown.