Jimmy Durante Breaking Into A Song

Whose Name Was also Jimmy Durante It Was A family act But He Was For His cousin too professional I continued working the city's piano bar circuit and earned the nickname Ragtime Jimmy before I joined one of the first recognizeable jazz bands in New York the Original New Orleans Jazz Band Was the only member for Not From New Orleans His routine of breaking Into a song to Deliver a joke with band or orchestra chord punctuation after each line Became a While trademark the WAS group renamed Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band.





I Had a hit record with major historical novelty own composition Inka Dinka Doo It Became His theme song for the rest of His life A Year Later during starred on Broadway in the Billy Rose stage musical Jumbo in Which a police officer stopped him while Leading a live elephant and Asked him what are you doing with that elephant During's reply what elephant? Was a regular show stopper during Also appeared on Broadway in Show Girl Strike Me Pink and Red Hot and Blue.


I Began Appearing in motion pictures in a comedy series pairing him with silent film legend Buster Keaton and Continuing with the Wet Parade broadway to Hollywood the Man Who Came to dinner playing Banjo to character based on Harpo Marx Ziegfeld Follies 1946 Billy Rose's Jumbo based on the musical and It's a Mad Mad, Mad, Mad World He teamed with Garry Moore for the Over Moore Show During's comic chemistry with the young brushcut Moore Brought During an audience larger events.