Don't meet Cab Calloway. You see Cab Calloway, and Cab Calloway is big and famous, and you don't see Cab Calloway at all. Cab Calloway is in a limosene going somewhere. Cab Calloway is a star. When Cab Calloway get off work, Cab Calloway don't be hanging in them joints with them people. Cab Calloway is going home, because Cab Calloway has got a good understanding. He's got to give a show day and night. So he stays fit. His doctor told him, "Stay physically fit. You got to rest your body. It's a machine. " He was told that. You are told that, because you got to . . . Sometime, you get an abundance of work, got to do three things a day. You play a nightclub at night, you play the theaters in the day, and in between, you making records, or you're making a movie. The guy have that [expletive deleted] timed so you can come there and do, what you call?, a vignette. Just a small part, and they go in and do that. Come back and you made that money. You got them arrangers, agents, that do all that for you. They arrange all that for you. You're working by the clock. The first thing Steele had told me, he said, "Danny Barker, watch the  clock. See this here? " [Barker taps his watch repeatedly. ] Wristwatch. "Be on time, man. " Say, "You don't have to be the greatest. Me, I ain't the greatest, but you see, I be sitting in all them bands? " I say, "Yeah. " He said, "Them cats, when they make more money, they get charged up in the head, and they don't make time. These people make time in New York. I'm from the South. " He used to coach me this [expletive deleted]. "Watch your watch. Be on time, because they'll hire you if you don't play much as him. If you don't play much as <span class="fullMatch" id="match_913">Bernard Addison</span> or <span class="fullMatch" id="match_914">Teddy Bunn</span> or John Trueheart or sometime they can't get them. If you're there, and you're dressed neat, have a clean shirt on, nice tie. Keep you nails clean. People like to see clean people around them. Class. And you'll make it. That's been part of my success, being available, and watching. Watch the time," he said. I went through that routine, and that's when I made it [? (inaudible)]. All them fast living people. I found out right away you don't . . . [? (inaudible)] say "Man, you got a wife. Take care of your wife. That's what you got a wife. You got a wife. She can cook for you. You couldn't afford to pay for the service you get. Wife. So you have to take care of her. There's two ways, three ways to look at that. She'll cook for you, wash your drawers, do some other things. " He told me all his woman. "She going to be nice to you, hug and kiss you. "