[Dixielandjazz] Pete Daily and His Chicagoans

[Burt Wilson]

For the complete Pete Daily fan you should get "South" and also "North"
(Pete had a sense of humor). Also, "I want to linger" is a famous Daily side
as is the suggestive "She looks like Helen Brown."  And I will always love
Pete for recording "When the War Breaks out in Mexico" (I'm a-gonna go to
Montreal). Here in California we have long spoken of the ending with two
beats on a cow bell and a three-note tag as a "Pete Daily ending."

I played with Pete a few times at sessions in Venice, CA before he passed
away. He used to play at a place called "The Astor" in the San Fernando
Valley in the 50's. He had Rosy McHargue on clarinet, Warran Smith on
trombone. I believe it was Skippy Anderson on piano. Don't recall the drums
or bass/tuba.

Pete had one of the best trumpet tones on anyone. A very positive, sharp
attack. Then well complimented his great feeling for jazz music.

Burt Wilson
trombone
The Silver Dollar Jazz Band

-----Original Message-----
From: dixielandjazz-admin@ml.islandnet.com
[mailto:dixielandjazz-admin@ml.islandnet.com]On Behalf Of Dan Augustine
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 7:41 PM
To: DJML
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Pete Daily and His Chicagoans


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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