King of Jazz (1930)

Paul Whiteman: Self

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• Announcer : You don't mean to tell me that you are well-versed in the intricacies of the art of Terpsichore?

  Paul Whiteman : No, but I can dance.

• Paul Whiteman : No record of American music could be complete without George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which was written for the Whiteman Orchestra and first played at the Aeolian Hall, in 1924. The most primitive and most modern musical elements are combined in this rhapsody.

• Paul Whiteman : ...Jazz was born in the African jungle - to the beating of a Voodoo drum.