- Blackface Comedian #1: [Part One of the routine; Car breaks down] Whoa!
- Blackface Comedian #2: What's wrong with it?
- Blackface Comedian #1: Well, I'd...
- Blackface Comedian #2: Where'd you have it fixed?
- Blackface Comedian #1: I just had it worked on.
- Blackface Comedian #2: Who worked on it?
- Blackface Comedian #1: The man that's got the garage...
- Blackface Comedian #2: Well, he ain't no good. The man you want is the man...
- Blackface Comedian #1: I had him. He's the one that ruined it.
- Blackface Comedian #2: Well, I see you got plenty water, but is you outta gas?
- Blackface Comedian #1: No, it ain't that. I think maybe it's...
- Blackface Comedian #2: Oh, it couldn't be that.
- Blackface Comedian #1: Well, there ain't much wrong with it.
- Blackface Comedian #2: What you need is some of them new gadgets. You know, the kind that you buy...
- Blackface Comedian #1: I just bought some.
- Blackface Comedian #2: Oh, not them. I mean the kind what fastens where they fits. A whole dozen'll cost about...
- Blackface Comedian #1: That's too much money. I can't afford it. I got to get some that don't cost no more...
- Blackface Comedian #2: You can't get 'em that cheap.
- Blackface Comedian #1: Well, we can get the car fixed up good maybe for around...
- Blackface Comedian #2: No, what you need is a new car.
- Blackface Comedian #1: Yeah. The kind like my uncle had. He made a trip out...
- Blackface Comedian #2: Did he go out there?
- Blackface Comedian #1: Sure. I thought all the time he was gonna go...
- Blackface Comedian #2: He did, but not that time.
- Blackface Comedian #1: Well, what's he doin' now?
- Blackface Comedian #2: Since he been back, he's been very busy gettin' ready for what he thinks...
- Blackface Comedian #1: Is that so?
- Blackface Comedian #2: Sure.
- Blackface Comedian #1: Well, I guess like all bachelors, he's...
- Blackface Comedian #2: No, no. Not him. He gonna get married.
- Selina Rogers: [singing] Zulu man is feelin' blue, Hear his heart beat a little tattoo. Diga diga doo, diga doo doo, Diga diga doo, diga doo...
- Bill Williamson: Clem never told me you could sing like that, Selina.
- Selina Rogers: I couldn't when Clem went away... but I practiced, and I studied. I've always been ambitious. Haven't you, Bill?
- Bill Williamson: Never have been, except to get three square meals a day, regular. But I'm beginning to see things different now.
- Selina Rogers: Gee, I'm glad to see you. What are you doing down here?
- Bill Williamson: Dancing. But on account of the bartender being sick, the cook had to take the bartender's place, the waiter took the cook's place, and I had to take the waiter's place.
- Bill Williamson: When two people can't seem to see the same thing the same way, life just gets powerful complicated.
- Cab Calloway: [singing] The jim, jam, jump if you jump and jive, Makes you dig your jive on the mellow side, Hep, hep! Hep, Hep! The jim, jam, jump is the solid jive, Makes you nine foot tall when you're four foot five, Hep, hep! Hep, hep! Now, don't you be that ickeroo, Get hep! Come on and then you follow through, You get your steady, fool, You make the joint jump like the gators do, The jim, jam, jump is the jumpin' jive, Makes you like your eggs on the Jersey side, Hep, hep! Hep, hep! The jim, jam, jumpin' jive, Makes you hep, hep on the mellow side...
- Selina Rogers: [last lines - singing] Ain't that somethin'?
- Bill Williamson, Selina Rogers: Ain't that somethin' to shout about!
- Blackface Comedian #1: [Part Two of the routine] Well, I guess like all bachelors, he's...
- Blackface Comedian #2: No, no. Not him. He gonna get married.
- Blackface Comedian #1: He is?
- Blackface Comedian #2: Yeah, he's gonna marry the widow whose husband used to be...
- Blackface Comedian #1: She's a fine lady.
- Blackface Comedian #2: Mm-hmm.
- Blackface Comedian #1: But listen - I heard that one time she...
- Blackface Comedian #2: That was her daughter!
- Blackface Comedian #1: Oh.
- Blackface Comedian #2: You see, I'm keeping company with her.
- Blackface Comedian #1: You is?
- Blackface Comedian #2: Yeah, I been engaged to her ever since the time...
- Blackface Comedian #1: I didn't know you knowed her that long.
- Blackface Comedian #2: Sure.
- Blackface Comedian #1: I worked with her brother. And one day on the job, the first thing I know...
- Blackface Comedian #2: That was your fault. Now, what you should have done was...
- Blackface Comedian #1: I did.
- Blackface Comedian #2: You see that?
- Blackface Comedian #1: Now that why I like talk to you.
- Blackface Comedian #2: Yeah.
- Blackface Comedian #1: 'Cause me and you can agree with one another.
- Blackface Comedian #2: Sure.
- Blackface Comedian #1: You know one thing. When I get the car fixed up, I'm gonna take you and your girl out for a ride sometime.
- Blackface Comedian #2: That'll be great.
- Blackface Comedian #1: Can you make it...
- Blackface Comedian #2: I'll be busy then.
- Blackface Comedian #1: When can you make it?
- Blackface Comedian #2: Let's see. The best day for me will...
- Blackface Comedian #1: That'll suits me. What hour?
- Blackface Comedian #2: Anytime between...
- Blackface Comedian #1: That's a little early, but we'll be there.
- Blackface Comedian #2: All right, I'll be seein' ya.
- Blackface Comedian #1: Later, bye-bye.
- Blackface Comedian #2: Bon voyage.
- Selina Rogers: [singing] Once you're hooked, Your goose is cooked, There's no two ways about love...
- Singer: [singing] Baby, baby, What is the matter with you?
- 'Fats' Waller: Ain't nothin' wrong with me, babes. Nothin' at all.
- Singer: [singing] Yes, you're takin' all my money, And goin' out havin' yourself a ball
- 'Fats' Waller: Baby, I was born ballin', and I'm gonna ball the rest of my life.
- Singer: All right, Fats, go to work.
- 'Fats' Waller: Well, all right then, boys, latch on. Come on.
- [singing]
- 'Fats' Waller: No one to talk with, All by myself, No one to walk with, But I might be on the shelf, Ain't misbehavin', Savin' my love for you, For you, for you, for you...
- 'Fats' Waller: [singing] I know for certain, The one I love, I'm through with flirtin', It's you that I'm thinkin' of, Ain't misbehavin', Savin' my love for you...
- Selina Rogers: [singing] I'm so very diga diga doo by nature, If you don't say diga diga to your mate, you're gonna lose a papa...
- Chick Bailey: [singing] The tom-toms beat, And the tom-toms beat, And the low beating of the tom-toms, Stirs your - Blood!
- Gabe Tucker: Lord, it ain't.
- Bill Williamson: Yes it is.
- Gabe Tucker: Well, I'll be doggone!
- Bill Williamson: How you doin', partner?
- Gabe Tucker: Well, I ain't doin' so bad. Thank you.
- Bill Williamson: Imagine me comin' here for a shine and finding you here.
- Gabe Tucker: Well, get right on up there, 'cause this one's on the house.
- Bill Williamson: You mean to tell me you got $560?
- Gabe Tucker: No, I ain't got 560 cents, but I got an idea.
- Bill Williamson: I got ideas too, but what I need is money.
- Gabe Tucker: You listen to me. If you look prosperous and sweet-talk them gals, they'll be so busy figuring out how to make you spend what they think you got - that they ain't got no time to worry about how much money you ain't got.
- May Johnson: [singing] Oh, I lost my sugar in Salt Lake City, Oh, why did I go there, I should have stayed down in New Orleans, Never, never gone nowhere...
- May Johnson: [singing] When night comes creepin', For me, there's no sleepin', What he sows he'll be reapin', For he done me wrong...
- Gabe Tucker: Cousin Jake, where did you get all that money?
- Cousin Jake: I drove my boss to Belmont Park today.
- Gabe Tucker: You mean, there was a coincident?
- Cousin Jake: What chu mean coincident?
- Gabe Tucker: That the right horse came in at the right time and on the right track and at the right odds?
- Cousin Jake: Well, yeah!
- Selina Rogers: [singing] I can't give you anything but love, baby, That's the only thing I've plenty of, baby, Dream awhile, scheme awhile, We're sure to find, Happiness and I guess, All those things you've always pined for...
- Bill Williamson: Since I've got that Hollywood contract, we'll have plenty of money. You won't have to go on workin'. You can quit.
- Selina Rogers: Quit?
- Bill Williamson: Sure. You worked long enough. It's time that you settled down. And we have a home and...
- Selina Rogers: But, Bill, I don't wanna quit. I wouldn't be happy unless I went on with my work, just like you. Singing's in my blood.
- Bill's Neighborhood Kids: Cab Calloway!
- Cab Calloway: Hi De, Hi De Ho!
- Bill's Neighborhood Kids: Hi De, Hi De Ho!
- Cab Calloway: Ho De Ho!
- Bill's Neighborhood Kids: Ho De Ho!
- Bill Williamson: Why, it ain't Gabe.
- Gabe Tucker: Well, if this ain't a solid send out. What do you know, Pop? Gimme some skin. Mellow. Now lay your racket, Jack.
- Cab Calloway: Say, this cat ain't hep to the jive. Stop beatin' up your chops to him.
- Gabe Tucker: Now, ain't that a bring-down. That's a wrong riff Jack.
- Bill Williamson: Say, what the devil you two fools talkin' about?
- Cab Calloway: We're talkin' jive. He says he's glad to see you and he wants to shake your hand.
- Gabe Tucker: Solid.
- Cab Calloway: Righteous.
- Bill Williamson: Crazy.
- Selina Rogers: [singing] Don't know why, There's no sun up in the sky, Stormy weather, Since my man and I ain't together, Keeps rainin' all the time...
- Selina Rogers: [singing] Life is bare, Gloom and misery everywhere, Stormy weather, Just can't get my poor self together, I'm weary all the time, the time, So weary all the time...
- Selina Rogers: [singing] I walk around, heavy-hearted and sad, Night comes around and I'm still feelin' bad, Rain pourin' down, blindin' every hope I had, This pitterin', patterin', beatin' and spatterin' drives me mad, Love, love, love, love, This misery is just too much for me...
- Cab Calloway: Where you goin' there, Mr. Bill?
- Bill Williamson: I've got a date up on the hill.
- Cab Calloway: You don't mean that pretty chick?
- Bill Williamson: That's the one I got to get there quick.
- Bill Williamson: You ain't seen nothin' yet! Talk about a treat. You should see that chick and me -
- [singing]
- Bill Williamson: Struttin' down the street, My, my, ain't that something, Hear me shout, Mm-mmm, ain't that something, Ain't that something to shout about...