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while Andy Kirk's orchestra plays "Basie's Boogie." Kirk's
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plays a comic, tap dancer and bad magician. While practicing his routine for that evening's variety show, he accidentally vanishes Lola, the girlfriend of the show's manager, Baltimore
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The King Cole Trio is up next. Nat at the piano sings "Oo, Kickerooni." The trio follows up with the Don Wolf and Alan Brandt composition "Now He Tells Me," another humorous bit of cool jazz, before closing with "Breezy and the Bass" written by Nat and Johnny "Breezy" Miller.
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