[Dixielandjazz] RE: Wow on WING...; humor in music

[Richard Broadie]

Remember Jackie Vernon's trumpet usually with excellent big band backing.
BAD!  Then there's Charlie Barnet's "The Wrong Idea" featuring Billy May on
the vocal.   Sammy Kaye sued Charlie and Capitol Records from that one that
featured the line "Swing and sweat with Charlie Barnet."

Red Ingle got in on some of this action, right, Don?   Spike Jones made a
good living...

Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
To: <ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu>; <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] RE: Wow on WING...; humor in music


> Listmates,
>
> Dan Augustine askes:
>
> >Lots of bands (in fact, some of the best bands) use humor, but do any
> >deliberately play badly for a comic effect?
>
> Oh yes . . . especially the band I'm associated with (The Boondockers) -
on
> one of our tunes we resurected a comic bit we heard the Gaylords (Ronnie
> Gaylord and Burt Holiday) do on the old Reno/Tahoe/Vegas circuit back in
the
> 70s when lounge acts were popular. It features the song "Fascination" and
it
> involves an outrageous French accent and what is perhaps the worlds worst
> violin playing. -
>
> I play the violin (having taken violin lessons in my youth) with just
enough
> accuracy to make the tune recognizable but with enough bad intonation and
> bowing to make it absurd. It always gets a big laugh.
>
> Also, Gary Church (a Boondocker sideman), who is a fine
> cornet/trombone/keyboard/guitar player who spent years on the road with
> Merle Haggard and also in Branson with the Mel Tillis band, does really
> funny things with the horn (reaching for impossibly high notes with
> disastrous results in the lower intestinal tract, making his horn sound
like
> a car with a dying battery in the song "I Can't Get Started" etc.).
>
> Generally speaking, however, we play fine dixieland what with the likes of
> Jim Maihack, Gary Church, Bob in the band and we normally play our music
> straight but we have been known to digress for the sake of a laugh.
>
> Check us out at the Washboard festival in Logan, Ohio this weekend.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill "Perfect Pitch" Gunter
> jazzboard at hotmail.com
>
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