[Dixielandjazz] Re: Pete Kelly's Blues/Booze

[Charles Suhor]

> dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com writes:
>> I think a meatier thread would be a discussion of the silliest movies
>> depicting musicians.  I vote for "Pete Kelly's Blues."

Yeah, it was sorta silly, but wasn't the music grand? Someone correct 
me if I remember poorly, but wasn't the fine combo a group with Dick 
Cathcart, Matty Matlock, and others who were around that time in Ben 
Pollack's band? Then there was the N.O. funeral scene in the beginning, 
not the best I've seen, and Peggy Lee as a lush. I thought she 
overacted but she got an Academy Award nomination, and who cares? She 
sounded and looked great. Does anyone have the full lineup of the 
combo? It surely must have been released on an LP.

True anecdote. That year, some music students put on a satirical skit 
called "Pete Smelly's Booze" at Loyola with Barbara Faulkner, Bert 
Braud, John Bourgeois, and others. There were actually pre-program 
censors then, a panel of Jesuits who said it was "too raucous" and we 
had to tone it down. The upshot was that we did it in 19th century 
drawing room setting. Talk about watering the liquor! The pace of the 
piece was destroyed. Hey, I just discovered that I've been wanting to 
get that gripe off my chest for almost fifty years. Free at last.

Charlie Suhor


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