[Dixielandjazz] Memorable requests

[Patrick Cooke]

>>>Carl Sandberg, who requested Battle Hymn of the Republic -- twice in a
set, and twice again in the next set.
>>>
     When someone requests Battle Hymn of the Republic, we play "Dixie".
      Pat Cooke
       New Orleans


----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Ingle" <dingle@baldwin-net.com>
To: <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:49 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Memorable requests


> While playing at Chicago's Jazz Ltd. in the '60's, I was on hand for some
> customer requests that are locked in memory.
> 1.  Carl Sandberg, who requested Battle Hymn of the Republic -- twice in a
> set, and twice again in the next set.
> 2.  Eddie Condon on a visit enroute to a Pacific tour requested Bessie
> Couldn't Help It, and Ain't no Man Worth the Sweat of My Tears. He
grinned,
> when Bill said we didn't have in our book, and said "nobody else has
either,
> but there's always hope!"
> 3.  Dan Daily asked to sit in, did, and asked what we wanted to play. Bill
> said whatever you want. Dan said,"anything but the Saints!" The band
> cheered. (By the way he could play pretty decent drums for a tap dancer.)
> 4.  Then one night some drunk (he was not all the way there or Ruth
wouldn't
> have let him in, but he made up for it soon after) demanded that we play
> some current rock tune nobody heard of and got loud and bellicose when we
> didn't, running his mouth on the obscene side...until Ruth came up, all 5'
> 2" of her, and grabbed him by the ear and marched him out of the club and
> out onto Grand Ave. before the lush knew what hit him.
> Dave Rasbury (trombone) started playing "Gone with the Wind and the band
> picked it up to the applause of the whole house and wait staff. (Ruth was
> the wife of  Bill Reinhardt, the club owner and clarinetist and was half
> Japanese and half Irish and put up with no s*** in her club. "No shirt, no
> tie, no service. No unescorted women seated and no women served at the
bar.
> "
> If it wasn't her love for playing the ponies she would have made a great
> Mother Superior!!)
> Both Bill and Ruth are gone now, but that old club was the scene of some
of
> the best trad jazz ever played.
> Don Ingle
>
>
>
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