[Dixielandjazz] Pete Daily and His Chicagoans

[Dan Augustine]

Folks--
     Well, here i am, poking into stray corners of the internet, 
looking for stuff on Lu Watters, when i find this site called 
Martin's 78 Turntable 1940's Jazz Revival (at 
http://martins78turntable.dns2go.com/40s_jazz/40s_jazz.html ).
     Hum, say i, it has a couple samples of the Yerba Buena band, how 
nice, but i already have them.  What else does he have?  Hmm, about 
20 different bands, including an old Firehouse Five Plus Two song, 
"Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me", in MP3-format.  Believe i'll 
give it a listen.
     So i click on it and discover that it's downloading the ENTIRE 
song, 480K, for me, which i can save onto my hard drive.  Bully, say 
i.  What a find.  Wonder what else it has?
     Hmm, wot's this?  Pete Daily's Chicagoans playing "South".  Never 
heard of him, but how could anybody from Chicago be bad, hmm? 
Download it and discover that it's Great!  Especially the tuba 
player!  Wonderful tuba solo.  How come i've never heard of this guy 
or his band before (well, other than the fact that i'm stupid and 
ignorant, that is)?  And who the hell is the tuba player?
     I want to buy CDs, records, or cassettes of this band, but do i 
find any at the usual places, no!  However, GEMM (www.gemm.com) does 
have a number of his recordings, some way overpriced (for me).  But 
which one should i order?
     Hmm.  Why don't i ask DJML?  They know everything, and what they 
don't know, i know.
     So.  How about it?

Dan
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