[Dixielandjazz] Re: Max Morath

[Don Ingle]

I remember his sitting in and doing a number...MY name may be Morgan but it
Ain't J.P." And yes, he was a long time fixture in Colorado venues before
going national. His one man show on bradway was well received, ad his series
of TV commericals for Ma Bell are still remembered.
Don Ingle

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G. William Oakley" <gwilliamoakley at earthlink.net>
To: "Don Ingle" <dingle at baldwin-net.com>
Cc: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 9:04 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Max Morath


> Hi Don:
> Also at that time Max was appearing on Channel 11 in Colorado Springs
doing
> a fifteen minute TV show with his soon to be wife Norma.  Their theme song
> was "Oh, We Ain't Got a Barrel of Money."  In 1956 I auditioned for my
first
> professional theater and Max was the piano player at the Imperial Hotel in
> Cripple Creek, a spot he held for a number of years.  He taught me my
> audition song, "I'd Rather Be a Gentleman's Gentleman Than a Gentleman On
My
> Own."
> He is indeed a fine gentleman and in later years we both had apartments in
> the same building in NYC and got to know each other.
> Best,
> Bill
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don Ingle" <dingle at baldwin-net.com>
> To: <DWSI at aol.com>; <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 4:55 PM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Was Celebrity thread-Now Max Morath
>
>
> > Question: "Say -- who WAS that masked man?"
> > Answer: The Lone Ranger -- not! It was Max Morath.
> > Max was a fraternity brother of mine at Colorado College in  Colorado
> > Springs (his home town). And he did a radio show on a local station
where
> he
> > played piano, sang, and took phone-in requests. The station manager
> decided
> > to do a little promotional deal, and had Max featured as the romantic,
> > mystery masked musician...This was the time of the Continental and the
> early
> > Liberace...and he had these posters of Max in a black tux wearing a
black
> > Lone Ranger type mask on and they were seen everywhere -- on city buses,
> > store windows, etc., saying "Who is the masked maestro?" Needless to say
> Max
> > was not high on the idea and you know he got big time kidding from the t
> > time I saw him he was doting a date in Sacramento and came in to where I
> was
> > working at the El Rancho in Sacro with dad's band (1962) -- and he did a
> > couple numbers with us -- saying, "Is this the Hagerman Hall flash I see
> > behind that horn?" That was the dorm I was in when I was there -- long
> since
> > torn down, but through no fauilt of mine.
> > Max has gone on to great things in the world of ragtime and is a master
of
> > the genre for sure. Great Guy, but I suspect he'd just as soon forgot
> about
> > the days of the black mask!
> > Don Ingle
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: <DWSI at aol.com>
> > To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 3:18 PM
> > Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Celebrity thread
> >
> >
> > > Regarding Jimmy Durante. When I was learning to play the Rag, Dill
> > Pickles, I
> > > remember reading that this was the one rag (and apparently the only
one)
> > that
> > > Jimmy Durante could play. (It's fairly simple--key of G). He was also
> > quoted
> > > (somewhere) as saying that it always got him a round of applause when
he
> > > started out on Coney Island. Back then, I guess, you had to play an
> > instrument as
> > > well as dance and tell jokes to get booked. Later Max Morath, (my
great
> > hero of
> > > syncopated piano) inserted most of Dill Pickles into his rendition of
> > Livin A
> > > Ragtime Life. Absolute great stuff!
> > >
> > > Dan (piano fingers) Spink
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