[Dixielandjazz] Who dat?

[Patrick Cooke]

>>>Blanking on the name of the leader -- Italian name -- Al Belito? Played
wonderful charts that were not far out but nice and tight ensembles.<<<
      That would be Al Belleto.  He's still here in New Orleans.  He now
fronts a big band.
     Pat Cooke



----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Ingle" <dingle@baldwin-net.com>
To: <JimDBB@aol.com>; <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 2:58 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Who dat?


> Jim: Nostalia rears its fuzzy head.
>    Do you remembe the little guy who would show up at clubs with a pole
and
> attached sock cymble, and other washbroad type stuff, and sit in a number
> bouncing it on the floor and hitting things on it with one drums stick?
> Think he was a lawyer or some professional and got his jollies that way.
>    And do you remember Fr.Owen, theNight Pastor, who used to attend to the
> spiritual needs of the Rush St. and near North club workers, and would sit
> in and play some decent piano? Think he died in the late 60's after I left
> Chicago.
>    Just a couple random thoughts of the past sparked by the Bugle Sam
> remark.
>    I too cought the N.O. boradcasts -- Martin at Midnight. He used to have
a
> neat little band in the Dave Pell mode on from time to time. Blanking on
the
> name of the leader -- Italian name -- Al Belito? Played wonderful charts
> that were not far out but nice and tight ensembles.
>    On the road at night going from one one-nighter to another, the car
radio
> would pick this station up all over the midwest and south and it would
keep
> us a little sane and awake in the face of white line hypnosis.
>    Those road days seem like fun now in retrospect -- but they were killer
> days that took their toll on long road trips. Did 94,000 miles on the
> odometer in one year with the Weems Band, coast to coast and back again.
We
> would sing the old MCA song..."On the Road for MCA...300 miles a day. Just
> to see the sun come up again when we entered I-O-Way!"
> Or - "The sun has riz and the sun has set, and we ain't outa Texas Yet!"
>    Don Ingle
>
>
>
>
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