[Dixielandjazz] Short dress gal

[Goggin, Brian (Dublin)]

Great tune allright.

I'd say a lot of them were on about it then. Frank Stokes recorded "Nehi
Blues" about knee high skirts.


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Anton Crouch [SMTP:a.crouch at unsw.edu.au]
> Sent:	Sunday, February 02, 2003 2:43 AM
> To:	DJML
> Subject:	[Dixielandjazz] Short dress gal
> 
> 
> Hello all
> 
> Is there a thread (pun intended) on short dresses in jazz?
> 
> I'll start - House Rent Rag, from the Dixieland Jug Blowers and Johnny
> Dodds, Chicago, 11 December 1926.
> 
> Earl McDonald's "sermon" on "short skirts, but oh how sweet" is hilarious
> -
> "they're trying to make the skirts catch-up with the bobbed hair".
> (Response - "don't miss it brother!").
> 
> Because of the long spoken intro, the record is the least known of the
> Dodds/DJB collaboration. The music is magnificent.
> 
> >From the cutting edge
> Anton
> 
> 
> 
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