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

[Don Kirkman]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:36:26 -0500, Don Ingle wrote:

>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

True Name Hawthorne, IIRC, but he or others always called it Hartorne.

>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.

My first taste of Pea Pickin' Tennesee Ernie Ford was also on Hartorne's
show, which I heard in my room at Berkeley thanks to long range
reception on winter nights.  (I also got the LA police radio calls on
the same broadcast band radio.)

>----- 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.......

We've lost some great ones, haven't we?
-- 
Don
donkirk at covad.net