[Dixielandjazz] Re:Tony Almerico

[Patrick Cooke]

Right....Tony Almerico did play at the Parisian Room on Royal St.
The Other broadcasts from the "local famous hotel" was the Blue Room of the
Roosevelt Hotel (now the Fairmont).
    The Blue Room featured Big Name dance bands on their broadcasts.
Sharkey Bonano was part of the floor show for a while.  I was out of town
for a number of years, and don't have the whole history.
    Pat Cooke


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Haesler" <bhaesler@nsw.bigpond.net.au>
To: "Walker, Maurice" <maurice.walker@gwl.com>
Cc: "dixieland jazz mail list" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 11:39 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: AM radio


> 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.
>
>
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