The Big Apple: “Every year for Christmas I ask Satan to cure me of my dyslexia”

A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.

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Entry from December 25, 2019

“Every year for Christmas I ask Satan to cure me of my dyslexia”

"Santa” has the same letters as “Satan,” and, of course, there are jokes. This was posted on Twitter by patrickswayze’spatrickgravy on December 3, 2015:

“Every year for Christmas I ask Satan to cure me of my dyslexia.”

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patrickswayze’spatrickgravy
@SamGrittner
Every year for Christmas I ask Satan to cure me of my dyslexia.
2:05 PM · Dec 3, 2015·Twitter for iPhone

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@SamGrittner
Every year for Christmas I ask Satan to cure me of my dyslexia.
2:05 PM - Dec 3, 2015

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Duane R Cole
@doc1c70
Every year for Christmas I ask Satan to cure me of my dyslexia.
1:52 PM · Dec 22, 2015·Facebook

Twitter
Sean Jacobson
@Sean82053244
Asking for the same thing I ask for every year for Satan to cure me of my dyslexia. #HappyHolidays
1:59 PM · Dec 22, 2015·Twitter for Android

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grace thompson
@beanpot99
All I want for Christmas is for Satan to cure me of my crippling dyslexia
12:50 PM · Nov 24, 2016 from Springfield, IL·Twitter for iPhone

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Scott Ford
@ScottFordTVGuy
Every year for Christmas I ask Satan to cure me of my dyslexia.
6:06 PM · Nov 25, 2018·Twitter for Android

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Posted by u/wtfover December 25, 2019
Every year for Christmas I ask Satan to cure me of my dyslexia.

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