On The Bumpy Road To Love

Here's Fats having fun in a fleeting introductory solo on a song called On the Bumpy Road To Love from 1938. The melody has a cute musical "special effect" switching to triplets at a particular moment to simulate the sensation of a "bumpy road".

The song came from an MGM musical released that same year called "Listen, Darling" sung by a 16-year-old Judy Garland whose next film was none other than The Wizard Of Oz!

Enjoy!

Here's the original performance:

https://youtu.be/EvEivVl78Mc

If you're interested here's the Judy Garland version:

https://youtu.be/A4aXsmDXYKU

[Note in the introduction, there is the same "bus bell" motif featured in Fats' Us On A Bus (see previous video)

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