Two Questions Please?
Sage
last month, trying to find artists and songs for my Dad who is now 83,
a retired musician, who can't always remember *everything*, but gives
me enough clues to find his beloved music for him. If anyone here can
help, please post or email me at the address below. Thank you so
much!
l'st Question:
Back in the 30's or possibly 40's, there was an artist who played
Dixieland on organ and had his own radio show. Any ideas?
2'nd Question
Is anyone aware of a version (same era as above) of A-tisket-a-tasket
sang over the radio by a female singer who included a rather *risque*
word in the song, and the song was banned and she was never heard of
after that?
Michael Laprarie
>
> Back in the 30's or possibly 40's, there was an artist who played
> Dixieland on organ and had his own radio show. Any ideas?
>
Milt Herth?
Mike
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Sage
(Your little memory jog did the trick.) Thank you very much Mike.
Off on a wild tune search...:-)
~Sage
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Donald Clarke
> > > sang over the radio by a female singer who included a rather *risque*
> > > word in the song, and the song was banned and she was never heard of
> > > after that?
Bet you're thinking of "Old Man Mose" (Eddy Duchin band, with Patricia
Norman singing). It's quite a swinger from a band that was supposed to
be square; Mose kicks the bucket and the chorus goes
"buck-buck-bucket" and some thought Norman sang "fuck it".
Donald Clarke
Austin Texas
Sage
Way cool Donald! Thank you! Dad told me that bucket and f--- it were
in the song, but he was still leaning toward a-tisket-a-tasket, and I
told him that somehow he'd probably melded the two songs. He heard
the song over the radio in Chicago, back in the 30's, and that was a
very long time ago. :-)
Just to add a little insight here, during one of our talks he was
feeling really down because he thinks that all the wonderful music
he's listened to and played all of his life (mainly Jazz),will be gone
and forgotten. At 83, many of the artists, and the people he played
music with are now gone and he felt that when all of the old-timers
were gone the music would be too.
Not!!! I explained to him what a newsgroup is, told him all about the
*Bluenote* group and how people from all over, young and old, are
keeping it alive, talking about it, posting information, and that it
would live on forever on these huge servers filled with archives on
the internet. (Thank you Google.) I also told him that people are
sharing many of the old songs on P2P networks and keeping the music
alive, although the method seems to be questionable at this point in
time. He felt better, much better after our talk, popped his DJango cd
into his boombox and said "Hey, I could tell those guys a ton of
stories!
~Sage
Donald Clarke
good transfer, by Robert Parker. Tell you dad that the music lives!
Milt Herth, by the way, was from my home town of Kenosha, if I'm not
mistaken. (Being talented, he left.) In the late 1930s and as late as
1942 the Milt Herth Trio had some hits on Decca, with Herth on organ,
Willie "The Lion" Smith on piano and O'Neill Spencer on drums, who
also sang, I think.
Donald Clarke
Austin Texas
void
>
> He felt better, much better after our talk, popped his DJango cd
> into his boombox and said "Hey, I could tell those guys a ton of
> stories!
His stories would be appreciated here. Perhaps you could transcribe some.
I bet he'd really enjoy reading the responses.
--
Ben
"An art scene of delight
I created this to be ..." -- Sun Ra
Sage
> On 13 Feb 2003 21:01:35 -0800, Sage <sagel...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> >
> > He felt better, much better after our talk, popped his DJango cd
> > into his boombox and said "Hey, I could tell those guys a ton of
> > stories!
>
> His stories would be appreciated here. Perhaps you could transcribe some.
> I bet he'd really enjoy reading the responses.
What a cool idea, thank you Ben! I think he'd enjoy that very much!
I'll get on it! :-)
~Sage