[Dixielandjazz] Re: AM radio

[Bill Haesler]

Dear Maurie,
I am surprised that no DJMLer has replied to your comment: >In the next half
hour there was a live broadcast of Tony Almerico's band, featuring Buglin' Sam
DeKemel, and vocalist Lizzie Miles. This was broadcast from a famous room in the
local famous hotel, but the name of the room and of the hotel have slipped from
my mind.<
OK, the boy from Oz will try, and maybe prompt Pat Cooke to confirm it.
Tony Almerico's band played  at The Parisian Room, above Gluck's Restaurant, 124
Royal Street, New Orleans from 1948 until 1961. Weekly coast-to-coast broadcasts
were made from the nightclub during the 1950s.
Lizzie Miles also worked at the Paddock Lounge on Bourbon Street in 1950 and
opened the Mardi Gras Lounge at 333 Bourbon Street in 1951.
The Capitol recordings with Sharkey Bonano's Kings of Dixieland (with Lizzie
Miles and Buglin' Sam) were made at The Vieux Carre Inn at Bourbon and St Ann
Streets.
I do not know if broadcasts were made from The Paddock, Mardi Gras or Vieux
Carre in the 1950s.
Over to Pat.   
Kind regards,
Bill.