[Dixielandjazz] Cow Cow Davenport

[John Farrell]

Anybody interested in this material (the message appeared on another email
list to which I belong)? It is a little too earthy for my taste.

Here are the details :
----- Original Message -----
From: <Stevramm@aol.com>
To: <undisclosed-recipients:>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 2:12 PM
Subject: Looking for home for Private recordings of Cow Cow Davenport


> A reader of my column in "In The Groove" wrote to me this week asking for
> help.
>
> He is looking for a "proper archival home for a reel-to-reel tape (he)
made
> from older material in 1971."
>
> "It consists of 12 private recordings mostly (or all) of the 1948-50 era
by
> "Cow Cow" Davenport, his wife Peggy Davenport and their friend Jack Elton.
> Peggy was a vaudevillian. "Cow Cow" is described in a 1949 article as a
> 'throwback to the cro-magnon era of jazz.'".
>
> He continues " I would like to see my tape archived for future reference
> rather than just disappear after I am gone."
>
> He enclosed a list which I have scanned and posted at:
> http://members.aol.com/stevramm/cowcow.jpg
>
> If any archive has an interest in this collection, please email me at the
> FOLLOWING address:  Stevenramm@aol.com and I will pass on your replied to
> this reader. I will wait until 7/27 before forwarding the info. (He does
not
> have email.)
>
> Steve Ramm

John Farrell
stridepiano@tesco.net
http://homepages.tesco.net/~stridepiano/midifiles.htm