[Dixielandjazz] NewThread: N u m b e r s G a m e

[Burt Wilson]

Don--

You mean you weren't listening to Huggie Boy and the Squeakin' Deacon
playing "Gee" by The Crows! Speaking of Steve Allen, my band was playing a
roadhouse near Lake Tahoe in 1950 and when the job ended at Midnight, we'd
all go upstairs to someone's room and listen to Steve.
"Yes, get on over to Save-on and get this lamp with an unbreakable base.
(Crash) Well I'll be, it IS unbreakable." KNX cut thorugh the mountain air
loud and clear. Later, in the army, I would catch KNX's "Music 'til Dawn"
in Colorado Springs.

Burt Wilson


> [Original Message]
> From: Don Ingle <dingle at baldwin-net.com>
> To: James Kashishian <kash at ran.es>; DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Date: 10/27/03 4:38:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] NewThread: N u m b e r s   G a m e
>
> Evenearlier, Jim, when Allen did a midnight on radio show with live
audience
> on KNX in the late 40's, before TV.
> Our high school aged jazz band would play a gig and be in our cars onthe
way
> back from the job and would roar and howl at the great Allen quips and
gags.
> The other late hour listen was Jim Harthorne's show out of Pasadena -- or
> PasaHogen as his later ego Skippy would say. But then, here I go, dating
> myself again.
> By the way our little band had some pretty good players -- Gene Estes on
> drums, Perry "Bunny" Botkin on trombone, Mel Pollen on bass, John
Bambridge,
> clarinet and sax, and John "Curly" Williams on piano (..yeah, THAT John
> Williams.) My handle at the time -- Ding.
> Don Ingle
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James Kashishian" <kash at ran.es>
> To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 3:51 AM
> Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] NewThread: N u m b e r s G a m e
>
>
> >
> > >I am developing an entertainment routine for Senior groups.
> > >It involves them drawing numbers. The entertainer then takes
> > >two numbers as the first 2 notes of a song.
> >
> > That very idea was used in the 1950's son the Steve Allen  (tv) Show in
> > Los Angeles.  Several people in the audience would each sing a note.  As
> > soon as either Steve (on piano), or someone in the band (Shelley Manne,
> > Frank Rossolino, the Conti brothers,etc.) got an idea from the notes,
> > the'd start playing it, and the band would join in.  Great fun!  I
> > remember one as being the Saints, which was picked up after 3 people
> > gave the pickup notes.......
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> >
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