[Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 28, Issue 46

[l.swain at comcast.net]

On 23 Apr 2005 at 18:22, Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> This interesting article courtesy of our Australian Dance Bands list.
> Kind regards,
> Bill. 
> ______________________________________________________
> Maybe If It Had Some Lyrics: A Century of 'Star Dust'
> 

When I put together my first Dixieland band, for our Senior Show in 
high school (1952), I was aware that the favorite tune for high-
school kids, per WHDH-AM Boston DJ Bob Clayton ("Boston 
Bandstand"), who ran a survey among high-schoolers in his listening 
area (including mine) every year, was "Stardust". This was pre-
Elvis, pre-Beatles, when the afternoon shows were crowded with 30's 
and 40's standards.

(For historians: Bob, whose career ended as a Cape Cod real-estate 
agent, died this past year.)

I am convinced that my addiction to OKOM and ragtime stems from the 
early-50s revival of ragtime and Dixieland, which I, as a piano 
student, really got into. Wasn't I lucky?

Larry


Laurence Swain
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