Arena
Season 1 • Episode 354: Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 2: How High the Moon • Watch with subtitles
Episode 354: Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 2: How High the Moon
October 29, 1989
In 1938 jazz legend and international star Slim Gaillard went to Hollywood to appear in Hellzapoppin: and then war broke out. Gaillard became one of America's first black bomber pilots; this week he recalls that profound and traumatic experience. With the help of Van Morrison he re-enacts a famous encounter with his beat disciple, novelist Jack Kerouac; he settles an old score with Little Richard; appears on America's craziest chat show; and meets the peanut that went to the moon. An 'Arena' special
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