# Happy Birthday, Charlie Parker!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-charlie-parker/29995
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 19, 2000, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-charlie-parker/29995 "2000-08-19T22:46:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2000, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-charlie-parker/29995/1 "2000-08-19T22:46:53Z")
That’s right, jazz great Charlie Parker would have been EIGHTY YEARS OLD today! So let’s all drink off a glass of gin, enjoy a big syringe-ful of our favorite “relaxant,” or simply run some complex changes on the chord structure of “How High the Moon.”
{stomping off “Scrapple from the Apple”}
Ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-dah…Da-da-da-da-da-da-DUM-dee-dah-dum…da-da-dum, da-da-da-da-dum…
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### Author:  [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-charlie-parker/29995/2 "2000-08-19T23:19:36Z")
Dang! My husband & I have been so busy today we didn’t have time to celebrate. He loves Charlie Parker. I’ll let him know–as soon as he gets home from the biker wedding reception he’s playing tonight.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-charlie-parker/29995/3 "2000-08-20T15:58:40Z")
Holy Moses…only one response in seventeen hours. (Thanks, **Persey.** )
I weep for our generation.
{going upstairs now to put on _Jazz at the Philharmonic 1946,_ the one where there was a long bass solo after Bird’s choruses on “Oh, Lady Be Good” because none of the other horn players dared to follow him and they had to go out to the bar to find Lester Young, the only one everyone felt was good enough, even though he had already taken a solo before Parker)
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### Author:  [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-charlie-parker/29995/4 "2000-08-20T18:16:31Z")
Eighty Years old?
This man looks atleast 120…
In celebration, I just put Bird and Diz into the CD drive to listen to.
Happy Birthday Bird.
pat
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### Author:  [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-charlie-parker/29995/5 "2000-08-20T22:58:38Z")
Sorry, **Uke** , I was busy listening to Coltrane.
OK, here comes a little “All The Things You Are”
Much better.
Sorry I missed your B-day, Bird.
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### Author:  [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-charlie-parker/29995/6 "2000-08-20T23:13:51Z")
Thanks for the reminder Ike.
Bird Lives!
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### Author:  [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-charlie-parker/29995/7 "2000-08-20T23:59:19Z")
Well Uke, that’s what happens when you start a thread on a Sat. (not that it’s your fault that’s where his b-day fell).
But though I’m a day late, I’m happy to raise a glass for Bird.
Here’s to you Charlie. ::clink:: ::gulp:: ahh.
I wonder how long before Tubadiva and Unclebeer get in here.
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### Author:  [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-charlie-parker/29995/8 "2000-08-24T20:31:23Z")
I guess they didn’t seem fit to attend. Hmmffp! Some jazz fans :rolleyes: 🙂
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2000, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-charlie-parker/29995/9 "2000-08-24T20:58:39Z")
**Tuba** and **Unc?** You were seriously expecting THOSE two moldy figs to show up at a Charlie Parker Bday party? They’re probably home practicing their Frank Teschemacher licks…
(_note to the squares:_ “Moldy fig” is not necessarily a term of opprobrium. It was used by beboppers and bebop fans in the 1940s to single out jazz fans who preferred pre-bop jazz forms particularly those who participated in the New Orleans revival movement.)
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2000, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-charlie-parker/29995/10 "2000-08-24T21:18:50Z")
Thank you for the reminder, U.I. Tonight I will take a time out and listen to his “Boston, 1952” album, and I’ll be groovin’ high!
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### Author:  [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2000, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-charlie-parker/29995/11 "2000-08-24T22:38:06Z")
In the middle of that hub, I remember one jazz club…
Happy birthday, Bird!