[Dixielandjazz] Dr Jazz - a song about?

[D and R Hardie]

Hi,
       I'm with Rebecca and Brian. In earlier,
less tarnished times when I first heard the
recording I was banjaxed. Never thought it was
about anything but the marvellous music of the
twenties.  The only thing that matched hearing it
was trying to play it. On Sunday I heard Bill
Haesler's (thats the non traditionalist !?) group
with my old playing mates Trevor Rippingale on
Sop, Johnny McCarthy  clarinet and Kate Dunbar
vocal. It was extempore and exciting and
relatively drug free.That's my kind of music. As
for Jelly Roll Morton, when I'm trouble bound and
mixed he's the guy that gets me fixed. Oh Mr
Jelly!
regards
Dan Hardie
See the website:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~darnhard/EarlyJazzHistory.html

briantowers wrote:

> I have never associated that song with drugs
> either - the idea seems
> absolutely ridiculous to me!
>
> King Joe Oliver, the composer, did not fool
> around with drugs.
>
> For me the lyrics are totally innocent,
> especially when you take the words
> of the little known verse into account.  "
> Everyone gets the blues now and
> then, and don't know what to do....etc"
>
> The message intended is that jazz is a happy
> music and the ideal thing to
> cheer you up when you have the blues.  Totally
> innocent!
>
> The drug songs of that era are much more blatent
> - "Willie the Weeper"  "If
> You're A Viper" etc
>
> Cheers,
> Brian Towers,
> Hot Five Jazzmakers, Toronto, Canada
> Band web site:           
> http://hotfivejazz.tripod.com
> Newsletter:                 
> http://hotfivejazz.tripod.com/TJM
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thompson" <res0a3qw@verizon.net>
> To: <barbonestreet@earthlink.net>; "'Dixieland
> Jazz Mailing List'"
> <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 6:53 AM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Dr Jazz - a song about?
>
> > For someone like me with the "Jazz Disease", I
> need a "fix" of Jazz
> > every so often.  I never associate this song
> with drugs.  Typical of
> > many songs of that era, there were double
> meanings... Guess it just
> > depends on where you want to place the
> emphasis.
> >
> > Rebecca Thompson
> > Flower Mound, TX
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > From Barbone
> >
> > DR. JAZZ: "Here's a song about sex or drugs in
> the 1920s. Now I know
> > that your parents or grandparents say there
> was no sex or drugs then,
> > but Dr. Jazz was either the local pusher, or
> the local pimp. Listen to
> > the words. Then we sing  the second line as
> "He's got just what I need
> > I'll say he has."  (equals drugs) or "You got
> just what I need, you know
> > you has." which sung while looking directly at
> a pretty young lady, or a
> > smiling older lady equals pimp or hooker, or
> fantasy. Guaranteed to
> > please the audience.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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