The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America

Ella Fitzgerald:
What Chick did for me can never be repaid. Always thinking of others, always in pain, but no one knew it - he was the kind that comes along once every thousand years.

Helen Oakley Dance:
He'd bleed profusely and lose a tremendous amount of blood. But game as anything, he would never quit.

Chick Webb:
I can't understand the pain God gave me, I can't understand my sickness, but that's secondary. The main thing is, the Lord gave me the talent to play drums. He gave me some years to play. That's what I wanted to do.