[Dixielandjazz] Memorable requests

[Don Ingle]

No "Dixie" for Sandberg, the great Abe Lincoln biographer. He's not the
North won that war!
Don Ingle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Cooke" <patcooke@cox.net>
To: "Don Ingle" <dingle@baldwin-net.com>; <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Memorable requests


> >>>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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