[Dixielandjazz] Fw: [TPIN] Uninvited Olympic Trumpeters

[Robert S. Ringwald]

When I lived in the Los Angeles area from 1979 to 1995, Manny & Uan
(mentioned below) used to come into where my band, the Great Pacific JB, was
playing on Sunday nights.  I too was personally told this story by both of
them.

However, while the story below indicate that they did it only once, they
told me that they continued to do it throughout the 1964 Olympics, wherever
they were when the National Anthem was played.

--Bob Ringwald
Placerville, CA USA



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Romans" <cellblk7 at comcast.net>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 10:08 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Fw: [TPIN] Uninvited Olympic Trumpeters


> Not OKOM, but a great story...many of you might know the two trumpet
players
> in this story...
> Bob Romans
> Cell Block 7 Jazz Band
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> Lodi, Ca. 95242
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> Because I play trumpet, I envy no man!
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <RDALEOLSON at aol.com>
> To: <TPIN at tpin.okcu.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:40 PM
> Subject: [TPIN] Uninvited Olympic Trumpeters
>
>
> > --
> > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> >         One incident related to the Olympics and trumpet playing
deserves
> to
> > be recounted and established as a very true, though highly unusual,
> situation
> > in which two uninvited trumpet players were given a standing ovation by
a
> huge
> > Olympic audience.
> >
> >     This occurred during the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo.  As recounted
to
> > me, the band, or recorded music, only played the first 16 measures of
"The
> Star
> > Spangled Banner", cadencing at that point, leaving only a truncated
> version of
> > our National Anthem.
> >
> >     Two trumpet players, attending the Games from the United States,
took
> > exception with what they, and many others, perceived to be an
> inappropriate
> > rendition of this highly patriotic composition.  They attended one very
> special,
> > but unrecalled, event, in which the United States was expected to
receive
> the
> > Gold Medal.  With them, they carried their trumpets.
> >
> >     The United States indeed did win the Gold as expected, and the
foreign
> > band/recording predictably played their Reader's Digest version of "The
> Star
> > Spangled Banner".  As the music concluded, all in the stadium again took
> their
> > seats, and the Games were about to resume.  They were, however,
> interrupted.
> > The two trumpet players stood high in the rear of the stadium, and began
> to play
> > the remainder of The Star Spangled Banner!  As they played, the entire
> > stadium became quiet, with the Americans in the audience singing, and
the
> other
> > nationalities standing quietly in respect, but all watching the two
small
> figures
> > at the very top of the stadium.
> >
> >     The Olympic audience had been treated to an unscheduled performance
by
> > two uninvited trumpet players who just happened to be the best of the
> Hollywood
> > studios, and possibly two of the finest players in the world at the
time,
> > Manny Klein and Uan Rasey.
> >
> >     The story was documented in printed media, which I am sure may be
> > researched.  Although I had heard the story years before, I had it
> confirmed late one
> > night, over Jim Beam and 7-Up, in my hotel room in Denver, Colorado, at
> one
> > of the original National Trumpet Symposia in the late 1960's or early
> 1970's.
> > The others in the room were Bud Brisbois, Don Ellis, Bill Chase, and the
> > narrator/perpetrator himself, Manny Klein.
> >
> > R. Dale Olson
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