Kansas City Shuffle
"Kansas City Shuffle" is a song by jazz pianist Bennie Moten. It was recorded in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois and released on the Victor record label.
The song refers to an advanced form of confidence game employing misdirection, subterfuge, and playing on the "mark's" arrogance and/or self-loathing. The relevance to a direction stated at the beginning of a situation has no bearing to the outcome.
[edit] In popular culture
The storyline of the 2006 drama/thriller Lucky Number Slevin uses a "Kansas City Shuffle" as the primary plot device. As Mr. Goodkat (Bruce Willis) mentions, "A Kansas City Shuffle is when everybody looks right, you go left." The origin of its name is revealed when a cover version of the song, performed by J. Ralph, plays at the end of the film. Ralph is a friend of the writer of Lucky Number Slevin. There is a reference to the fact that "you can't have a 'Kansas City Shuffle' without a body", pointing out the importance of misdirection. The final line of the movie also refers to the final line of the song.
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