Symptoms included painful legs and paresthesias with formication and hypoesthesias. Most street walkers inevitably fell prey to syphilis tabes dorsalis only appearing many decades later. These are responsible for proprioception, vibration, and discriminative touch. Tabes dorsalis occurs with untreated syphilis infection and is a slow degeneration of the sensory neurons in the spinal cord. Sadly their prognosis was poor and the symptoms of end stage syphilis, horrific. In his private life Gaillard like other musicians did in the normal course of events become exposed to the daily lives of sex workers and ordinary people coping with untreated sexually transmitted disease. Many early jazz and rock’n roll hits contained lyrics which had previously been considered to vulgar for a white public consumption and all expletives and reference to sex and the seamier side of life were removed or vocalesed. A “Floogie” dance craze followed the success of the record and together the song and dance craze proved so popular and representative of American culture at the time, the sheet music was placed in a time capsule at the 1939 World’s Fair, not to be opened for 5,000 years. The original title had to be changed from "Flat foot floozie, (with the 'floy-floy)” into 'Flat foot floogie with the floy floy' to avoid censorship and allow airplay. Wingy Manone, Django Reinhardt, Count Basie, Fats Waller, and Michael Jackson. ‘Flat floozie (with the floy floy) ‘was recorded by many jazz and pop luminaries including: Louis Armstrong and The Mills Brothers (1938) Benny Goodman. Despite his obvious eccentricities he was very well respected by his peers. This hip style had broad appeal to the merging jazz generation. In his unique style Slim Gaillard combined vocalese improvisations with scat singing. Annie Ross recorded “Twisted" (1952), which is now considered a classic of the genre. The inventor and most prolific practitioner of vocalese was Eddie Jefferson, whose rendition of Coleman Hawkins's "Body and Soul" became a hit on its own. Vocalese uses lyrics, either improvised or set to pre-existing instrumental solos. Gaillard sang in vocalese which is unlike scat singing, i.e. He was also fluent in gibberish and double-talk. Slim was a polyglot, rather eccentric and spoke “ Vout” language. It was performed in 1938 by Slim Gaillard and became a major hit. The song ‘Flat foot floozie (with the floy floy) ‘was written by Bulee "Slim" Gaillard, Slam Stewart and Bud Green. ‘Floy floy’ was American slang for venereal disease. It may have originated as a variation of flossy meaning "fancy, frilly" (1890s slang). Arly 20th century slang for a disreputable woman or promiscuous girl, or a prostitute.
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