[Dixielandjazz] Joe Clark; Fritzel's; Hadacol & Nobility

[Don Kirkman]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 11:51:09 EDT, TBW504 at aol.com wrote:

>Does anyone know much - anything! - about Joe Clark, the alto sax on the 
>Bootblacks and Wanderers sides?
>I think I know the answer already but would appreciate any comments on why 
>the tune "Hadacol Bounce" is so named; and why was the Jazz Pub on Bourbon 
>Street is called "Fritzel's"?
>Finally, who currently owns Al Clark's "Nobility" record label of the 1960s? 
>(Al Clark ran Dixieland Hall in New Orleans which for a time rivalled 
>Preservation Hall.)

Is your puzzlement the "Hadacol" part or why the tune was named that
way?  If the former, many of us are old enough to remember the old
patent medicine (tonic?) Hadacol that (apparently) sponsored Hank
Williams' radio show back in the 1940s.  Like Lydia Pinkham's for the
ladies, Hadacol's most curative ingredient was probably its alcohol
content.

It seems there subsequently was or is now a band called Hadacol.
Further I know not.
-- 
Don
donkirk at covad.net