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The 4th Pip: Whiplash* — Part VI
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The 4th Pip: Whiplash* — Part VI

A fast whip and a slo-ho-ho lash. Red’s back on stage at the Apollo. (7 minutes)

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David and Carolyn sat in the front row of The Apollo Theater in Harlem absolutely gobsmacked. Red, their fellow Whip* had been called up to the world-famous stage.

Red now stood behind one of three microphone stands. Wilfred Frank, the self-proclaimed 4th Pip was instructing him. “You pull the “whoo-hoo” train …

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