[Dixielandjazz] Pete Daily and His Chicagoans

[Stan Brager]

Dan;

I first heard Pete Daily when he was playing in the Astor Bar in the San 
Fernando Valley near the corner of Laurel Canyon and Ventura Blvd. I was 
selling newspapers on that corner and, although I was merely 13 or 14, 
would go to the bar to sell papers to the patrons. From time to time, Pete 
and the band would be playing and I'd take my time in the Astor listening 
to this wonderfully swinging band.

His theme song was "I Want To Linger" which was quite popular with the 
band's many fans. However, Rosy McHargue, the clarinetist and arranger for 
the band, told me that Pete didn't like the number when Rosy brought him 
the arrangement. Pete changed his mind when he saw how popular "I Want To 
Linger" was with his fans.

I haven't seen any recordings on CD and I don't know why. Pete made many 
recordings for Jump, Capitol, Jazz Man, Sunset labels.

Stan
Stan Brager
Trombonist-in-Training

-----Original Message-----
From:	Dan Augustine [SMTP:ds.augustine@mail.utexas.edu]
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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