[Dixielandjazz] Smokey Stover

[Robert S. Ringwald]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert S. Ringwald" <ringwald@calweb.com>
To: "Don Ingle" <dingle@baldwin-net.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Smokey Stover


> Smokey Stover, the drummer, was playing drums with Turk Murphy around
> 1970-71 when I was playing intermissions for Turk @ Earthquake Magoons.
>
> I know he had once worked with the Firehouse 5+2.
>
> He eventually moved to Virginia City where he played drums with Merle
Koch.
> Merle was a fine piano player from New Orleans who used to work with Pete
> Fountain.  Merle owned the night club, the Silver Stope in Virginia City.
>
> Bob
> mr.wonderful@ringwald.com
> Placerville, CA USA
> Amateur (ham) Radio Station K6YBV
> See: http://www.ringwald.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Ingle" <dingle@baldwin-net.com>
> To: "Don Gumpert" <dongumpert@cox.net>; <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 8:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Smokey Stover
>
>
> > Smokey Stover the Drummer was once the manager of Club 47 in Studio
City,
> > owned by Nappy LaMare, Noni Bernardi and Doc Rando of the old Crosby
Band.
> > He played drums as well there in a house band at times. He moved to San
> > Francisco and worked at the Hangover Club there. Smokey took in a person
> he
> > befriended -- a down and outer -- and that person in turn murdered  him.
> > Smokey was a nice man. His wife, if I recall, was named Pauline and
worked
> > at Club 47 as hostess/waitress.
> > Smokey was from Coffeyville, Kansas, and he had a brother who taught
music
> > at Michigan "State when I was an undergraduate there in the early '50's.
> > Mind you,  this is a memory fifty years old.
> > Don Ingle
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Don Gumpert" <dongumpert@cox.net>
> > To: <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 8:16 PM
> > Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Smokey Stover
> >
> >
> > > A friend has an extensive LP jazz collection and occasionally sends me
> > tapes
> > > to transfer to CD for him.  Today, I received several tapes: "Where
> > There's
> > > Fire There's Smokey Stover" with Smokey Stover on trumpet; "Lee
> > > Collins-Ralph Sutton's Jazzola Six" with Smokey Stover on drums; and
one
> > > simply labed "Willie Wimber."
> > > Don knew Smokey the trumpet player but, who is/was Smokey the drummer
> and,
> > > does anyone have any information on Willie Wimber?
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Sandy Gumpert
> > >
> > >
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