[Music Box and Little Freddie King for Tempt and Louisiana Tourism on Thursday, April 1, 2021. Photo courtesy of Little Freddie King.]
LFK, 4/19/2021: On Frenchmen Street, Treme filmed me there. Wacko [“Wacko” Wade Wright, King’s drummer/manager] come and pick me up, and I always grab my guitar and put it in the case and get ready to go.
Wacko said, “You don’t need that guitar.”
I said, “What?” I said, “I ain’t never made a film without my guitar.”
He said, “You don’t need it today.”
I said, “What am I going to do?”
He said, “Don’t worry about it. When we get to the door, they’re going to give you your part.”
I said, “Alright then.” When I got there, what I had to do was tip my hat to a lady and then pull her off the stool and dance all over the floor with her.
Lord, I had never done nothing like that before! I was dancing all day. That was at the Blue Nile.
Wacko Wade: We were in an earlier episode, right, then they called you back to do that dancing scene?
LFK: Yes.
WW: We played as a band early in the series; we did the “Chicken Dance.” So, for the last finale of the show, at the Blue Nile, they had him sitting at the bar, and when the camera went to him and he tips his hat, everyone watching knew who he was from playing the “Chicken Dance”.
So they start rolling, and Freddie starts dancing with her, and then the director says, “Cut, cut.”
Freddie keeps on dancing and spinning her around.
The guy says, “Cut!” again. Freddie spins around dancing.
The girl goes, “I think we finished, I think we finished,” and he keeps dancing! They got in his face, said, “Stop, Mr. King, stop!”
And Freddie says, “I thought you meant ‘Cut the rug’!” [Laughter]
LFK: When they said cut, I got fast. I thought they wanted me to speed up! I didn’t know they meant ‘cut and stop’!
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