[Dixielandjazz] Need Help finding song

[Craig Johnson]

Don,
How about Jabbo's
"Michigander Blues"?

Craig
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Ingle" <dingle at baldwin-net.com>
To: "John Farrell" <stridepiano at tesco.net>; "Craig Johnson"
<civanj at adelphia.net>; "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List"
<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Cc: "JazzMusic" <jazzmusiciansforum at JazzMusiciansForum.talklist.com>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Need Help finding song


| Dear friend John:
| As a Michigander, I can say that we indeed grow lots of cider apples -- 
but
| for most of the state, we grow more green tomatoes that fat red ones. Too
| short a growing season up my way. We are having the first week of a touch
of
| a February thaw -- got up to 40 F. , but it ain't over yet! We averaged
| about 6-8 degrees lower in all of January than normal -- and normal -
| believe it -- is pretty damn cold in No. Michigan. A couple years ago we
had
| one day when the Fahrenheit and Celsuis scale agreed.
| Minus 40 degrees below freezing. Our wrost here this year -- so far -- was
| an overnight of minus 27 F. -- you do the conversion...we don't do
| metrics..so far!
| However, since this is a jazz forum, there are some jazz content tunes
with
| Michigan names -- try Michigan Waters Blues.
| For big band, try (I've got a gal in) Kalamazoo.
| And for trad jazz, though a flimsey connect, try Wolverine Blues (the last
| wolverine who lived in Michigan did so in the ice age 12, 000 years ago -- 
| and forget those nick-named Univ. of Michigan types. They really think
| they're from the Ivy League and consider themselves Michi-GAWN-nians.
That's
| like someone at high tea sipping from the cup with their little pinkie
| finger stuck out. Up here where the Michiganders live, any one who stuck
out
| their little pinkie finger at a high beer call would find some Jack Pine
| Savage hanging a pretzal on it..
| How's them tomatoes, Jack?
| Don Ingle
|
| ----- Original Message ----- 
| From: "John Farrell" <stridepiano at tesco.net>
| To: "Craig Johnson" <civanj at adelphia.net>; "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List"
| <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
| Cc: "JazzMusic" <jazzmusiciansforum at JazzMusiciansForum.talklist.com>
| Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 1:57 PM
| Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Need Help finding song
|
|
| > Howzabout "I Wanna Go Back To Michigan (Where The Ripe Tomatoes Grow)"?
| >
| > God,  I feel so old knowing all this esoteric stuff.
| >
| > John Farrell
| > http://homepages.tesco.net/~stridepiano/midifiles.htm
| >
| > ----- Original Message ----- 
| > From: "Craig Johnson" <civanj at adelphia.net>
| > To: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
| > Cc: "JazzMusic" <jazzmusiciansforum at JazzMusiciansForum.talklist.com>
| > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 4:52 PM
| > Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Need Help finding song
| >
| >
| > > Years ago, one of my musicians referred to a song with the
| > > title "XXX New Jersey, Where The Big, Fat Tomatoes Grow"
| > > where XXX was something like "Take Me Back TO"
| > > or "I Want To Go Back TO" or something else??
| > >
| > > Due to a severe brain disease, probably brought on by
| > > advancing age, I would like to find this tune. Can someone
| > > tell me the title and if possible, who MIGHT have recorded it?
| > >
| > > Regards,
| > > Craig Johnson
| >
| >
| >
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