Well, Alfred Lion took me out to dinner and he asked me if I would like to record for Blue Note, if I would like a contract. I said sure, and he said [Spaulding does his best German accent] „well, you know you have a family (I had just had my first daughter) and you want to write some music for the jukebox!“ He said „you want to write some ‚Watermelon Man.‘?“ At the time he wanted something like Lou Donaldson’s „Alligator Boogaloo,“ and as I was eating I said „okay Alfred, I’ll be talking to you later.“ I never got back with him; I had all this stuff I’d written up, and that just killed all of that.
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