Young Man with a Horn (1950)

Hoagy Carmichael: Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby

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• Attendant : I'm afraid it's pneumonia. Think you oughta get him to a hospital.

  Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby : Well, why didn't you send him to a hospital?

  Attendant : We didn't have any authorization.

  Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby : You got it now.

  [takes pen and paper out; writes; hands paper to attendant] 

  Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby : Get an ambulance; I'm taking him out of here. And call these numbers--tell 'em to get down here right away.

  Attendant : [looking at paper]  Mrs Martin--is that his wife?

  Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby : Yes.

  Attendant : And the other one?

  Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby : She's *not* his wife.

• Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby : We were in the thankless business of piecing little notes and phrases of music together into a mumbo jumbo that somehow turned out to be jazz. Strictly off the cuff; but, a lot of fun.

• Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby : He couldn't see anything but notes and he couldn't hear anything but his trumpet. He was cut out to be a jazz man the way the righteous are chosen for the church.

• Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby : He had a lot of friends and, in a way, he had no friends at all. He was a lonely kind of guy - always.

• Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby : Maybe I'm getting too old for this music racket. It's not much fun anymore, and you can't sell it for a bag of peanuts.

• Rick Martin : [singing]  People call him Lovin' Sam,

  Rick Martin , Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby : He's the Sheik of Alabam', He's a mean love-makin', A heart-breakin' man,

  Rick Martin : And when the gals go strollin' by,

  Rick Martin , Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby : Boy, he rolls a wicked eye, Does he step? Does he strut? That's what he doesn't do nothin' else but!

  Rick Martin : Could you love like Lovin' Sam

  Rick Martin , Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby : You could have your eggs and ham, In the finest kitchen down in Alabam',

  Rick Martin : You'd make the high-brow babies cry for ya...

• Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby : They played all night and slept all day.

• Rick Martin : Hey, Smoke. Hey, you know what we ought to do? We ought to make our own records. Make 'em the way we want. Boy, we could make records that'd really split 'em wide open. Make them sit up. Do some of the old ones Art used to do, like - "Dinah" and "Twelfth Street Rag" and - "Louisiana Blues."

  Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby : They won't buy 'em.

  Rick Martin : Who won't?

  Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby : People. You know who buys records? High school girls. You know why? To learn the words. They only buy the new songs to learn the words.