Walter Peacock, Lucky Thompson and the [inaudible], and Woody Wood and a strange type of band. So he was saying "I need an alto player and a trombone player. " So he would always come to me when he needed somebody so I said "okay. " So he's in the steam, you know in the Strand Theater then had this big steam thing. He was in the steam bath with his head down there so he couldn't hear. So I made the phone call from his dressing room to St. Louis. "Hey Ernie, you want to come join Count Basie? " "Oh, man, don't be kidding with me. " "No I'm serious, I have to do it in a hurry, because when the steam bath goes off I'm dead. " So he says "yeah, okay, yeah. " So I says "well come, get Jimmy. " "Jimmy too" he says. I says "yeah, bring Jimmy too.