[Dixielandjazz] Re: Any tune can be a dixieland tune (was Letter on Sacra...

[TCASHWIGG at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/6/04 8:25:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tubaman at batnet.com writes:

> 
> Considering the fact that the TUNE for the Star Spangled Banner was an 
> English drinking song (“To Anacreon in Heaven” a tongue-twister that 
> was sung quickly as a gauge of how drunk you might be) there should be 
> no reason not to jazz it up.
> 
> 

Aha! the truth comes out AGAIN, so Francis Scott Key was one of the earliest 
copyright infringers, huh? Plagiarizing scum bag.  Quick somebody call ASCAP 
and sue his Estate for all it's worth.  Actually I think I bought the rights to 
the Star Spangled Banner in a package deal for the Golden Gate Bridge and the 
Eiffel Tower, and I have yet to see one damned royalty check from ASCAP on 
the song.  Francis Scott Key Jr. IV  swore to me it was a legit deal, do you 
think I got snookered out of fifty bucks I gave him for the down payment or what? 
 I never got a copy of the original sheet music that he promised would be 
delivered by Pony Express, (now known as Federal Express).

>From the way many celebrities and others have sung the song at Televised 
Public events it appears that the song is still a relatively Great Tongue-Twister 
even sang slowly in drag tempo.

. Smith's melody originated as To Anacreon in Heav'n, sung at 
each fortnightly meeting of London's Anacreontic Society, a club of 
wealthy amateur musicians founded in 1766.

Didn't they evolve into the Bohemian Club as well?

Well, now here's the OKOM musical content in this post.

Sounds like a lot of current Jazz Societies right?

. The club disbanded in 1794 when members resigned in protest after their 
president forbade the performance of certain comic songs that might offend the 
visiting 
Duchess of Devonshire.

Obviously they have been reformed and now call themselves THE BOONDOCKERS.

My My My, the more things change the more they stay the Same.


Dave, your a Jewel man, I just love the Great Research you come up with and 
share with us on this list.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins
ROTFLOL