Comments on: The last thing on Miss Otis’s mind was inconveniencing you https://sorrywatch.com/the-last-thing-on-miss-otiss-mind-was-inconveniencing-you/ Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history and literature. We condemn the bad and exalt the good. Wed, 02 Sep 2020 03:57:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Robert-Louis Davis https://sorrywatch.com/the-last-thing-on-miss-otiss-mind-was-inconveniencing-you/#comment-214878 Sun, 21 Oct 2018 19:34:26 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=2642#comment-214878 I have always wondered about the song and happy that I researched it. What a sad day for Miss Otis.

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/the-last-thing-on-miss-otiss-mind-was-inconveniencing-you/#comment-110750 Sun, 28 Dec 2014 22:02:12 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=2642#comment-110750 In reply to Vittorio.

Ah! Thanks for that.

]]> By: Vittorio Castelli https://sorrywatch.com/the-last-thing-on-miss-otiss-mind-was-inconveniencing-you/#comment-110727 Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:53:27 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=2642#comment-110727 Now all fields are filled.

]]> By: Vittorio https://sorrywatch.com/the-last-thing-on-miss-otiss-mind-was-inconveniencing-you/#comment-110725 Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:47:42 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=2642#comment-110725 Ada Bricktop Smith used to tell the story of Porter going one day to her restaurant in Paris, being very upset because the paper carried the news of one miss Otis having been lynched. The first woman since a long time. Bricktop very dryly said to his maitre “Miss Otis regrets..etc.” . Porter, very much touched by her harshness went home, wrote the song and left it at Bricktop’s. So, she’ s the madam he talks to. She’s also reported as being the first to ever perform the song, that same night.

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