Blues in the Night (1941)

Richard Whorf: Jigger Pine

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• Jigger Pine : Whenever the goin' gets tough, just sing out and I'll be there.

  Ginger 'Character' Powell : I know you will.

  Jigger Pine : Remember, no matter what happens, stay in the groove. Will ya?

  Ginger 'Character' Powell : I'm back in it now.

• Brad Ames : Before it's too late, get her out of your system.

  Jigger Pine : I don't think I can. I just don't think I can.

• Jigger Pine : He slaps the greatest doghouse you ever heard!

• Jigger Pine : Do you think I ever thought about startin' a band before? I've thought about it lots of time. I'm always thinkin' about it. But, it's gotta be our kinda music! Our kinda band. The songs we've heard since we've been knockin' around this country. Blues! Real blues. The kind that come outta people. Real people! Their hopes and their dreams. What they've got and what they want. The whole USA in one chorus.

  Nickie Haroyen : The whole USA.

  Jigger Pine : And that band ain't guys just blowin' and poundin' and scrapin'. That's five guys - no more. Who feel, play, live, even think the same way. That ain't a band - it's a unit! It's one guy multiplied five times. It's a unit that even breathes on the same beat. It's got a kick all it's own and a style that's theirs and nobody else's! Its like a hand in a glove. Five fingers. Each that fits slick and quick.

• Jigger Pine : Why, that's the blues, the real low-down New Orleans blues.

  Baritone Singer in Jail Cell : [singing]  Now the rain's a fallin', hear the train a callin', oooo-ee, Hear the lonesome whistle blowin' 'cross the trestle, oooo-ee, Oooo-ee-a-oooo-ee, o' clickety-clack, Is echoin' back the Blues in the Night...

• Kay Grant : You know, this is the first time you've spoken to me since you've been here?

  Jigger Pine : Look, Leo's married.

  Kay Grant : Do you run Leo's life?

  Jigger Pine : I run this band.

  Kay Grant : Is that the same thing?

  Jigger Pine : We all came up together the hard way.

  Kay Grant : I wouldn't know anything about that.

• Kay Grant : What kind of a dame pushed you around?

  Jigger Pine : What's that got to do with this?

  Kay Grant : Why haven't you spoken to me before? What stopped you? Your piano?

• Ginger 'Character' Powell : You happy, Jigger? We're in the groove again.

  Jigger Pine : Sure, Character, we're in the groove again.

• Jigger Pine : You're not alone. Remember that you're one of us. No matter what happens, just keep saying to yourself, "I'll never be alone if I stay in the groove."