Recordings were always - they were very superstitious. Did you know that? Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn were very superstitious. You never whistle in the dressing room. Never whistle. The color yellow is out. Blue is in. Blue is the color. Don't ever buy him shoes, because that means he's stepping out of your life. Willie Smith was the champion with being superstitious. He had so many, I can't even think of all of them. One in particular was, he had a big coin. It looked like a silver dollar. That had to be put on the bureau. It had to be concise, right on the middle of the bureau, and measured on top, before he went to sleep. Then when he opened his alto [saxophone] case to take out his horn, he'd open up the case, look at his horn, and go "boom bam bam bam chim chim bang bang bang," and close it. He'd wait a minute. Then he'd open it up again, look at his horn, "ram boom zing zam zing zing zam rrr rrr rrr rrr bang," and close it. He did that about ten times. Then finally, he'd open it up, "R-boong. " He'd grab his horn.