[Dixielandjazz] Multi subject: Hoagy/bird calls/gambling machines

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Martin Nichols wrote:

>I get the digest version of DJML so I don't normally
>copy the posts I respond to. Anyway-
>I just today listened to some bird calls in back yard and
>also at the beach in Port Canaveral while RV camping out.
>I lo9ve to listen to the "figures" that some of them blow.
>Some of them must be "mockingbirds" for I hear an "echo"
>copying the figure coming from a distance away. When I hear
>these figures I am reminded of JJ Johnson on trombone. He had 
>a similar "clean sound." Next subject: The gambling machines.
>It was posted recently that the machines put out a combined tone 
>of 'C'. I recall playing a job a few years back on the SunCruz casino
>out of Port Canaveral, or was it the "Sterling Casino?", anyway---
>I used a "tuning instrument" (my trombone) to determine the key of
>the conglomerate sound from the slots; it was 'F' to my recollection.
>No big deal. ;) Last but not least: Hoagy!
> 
>I was amazed to read on DJML that Hoagy wrote only the music and 
>not the lyrics for his songs. I can't imagine him writing the beautiful
>music for "Stardust" or "New Orleans" without having some lyrics first. Shows how much I know. :D
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Hoagy wrote lyrics for some of his songs, but not many. Example, his 
Riverboat Shufflk\e was originally written, no lyrics, as "Free 
Wheeling." Publisher later had words added and changed title,
The composers that wrote both lyric and song were rarities and most 
collaborted with a partner. Berlin, Gershins and Porter were more the 
exception, and most songsmith output was partnered. Mercer penned a few 
songs, (I want to be around to pick up the pieces), Walter Donaldson 
wrote lryics to some of his songs, but usually had lyricists, with Gus 
Kahn his favorite. Hoagy wrote a few lyrics, but mostly he was the music 
half of a partnered effort.
Don Ingle