[Dixielandjazz] Request for lyrics (and.....'What can we do to help N.O.?)

[rahberry at comcast.net]

Berry,
I seem to remember that Abe Lincoln was on the "Jam Session Coast-to-Coast" album with the South Rampart Street Paraders.  On the opposite side of the LP was Eddie Condon's All-Stars which included Lou McGarrity and Cutty Cutshall on tbone.
I'm sure the listmates can expand on and correct this, but there's a place to look for Abe.
~Rae Ann


> Enkhuizen, The Netherlands, August 31st, 2005
> 
> Dear list friends,
> 
> With great interest I followed the discussions about the 100th birthday of 
> Jack Teagarden. I agree with most of the respondents : I took quite a while 
> before T. was honoured adequately. However, to blame all the listmates for 
> that - as the tremendous Dutch trombone player Dick Sleeman did -- is 
> probably a bit over the top, but in essence he was right....It took quite a 
> while, indeed. The respons on his bitter remarks came quick: 'We 
> commemorated Big T. during our gigs", and in our own way....!'.
> 
> Let it be.
> 
> Anyway...a lot of us played Jack's music in this period, put his records on 
> the turntable or his CD's in the player. 'Coast Concert' , 'Jazz Ultimate' , 
> the sessions with Louis Armstrong, the records he made with Norma and 
> Charlie, Donm Goldie, so many others....
> 
> A lot of Jack's collegues, like Dorsey,  are in these weeks mentioned as 
> well.
> 
> Listening to Jack's records I suddenly wondered: 'Why don't we hear anything 
> about that other wonderful, swinging trombonist Abe Lincoln? He played 
> fantastic change chorusses with Jack Teagarden and I've never been able to 
> buy a record, a tape or a CD of him. 'CD Universe', the big 
> internet-CD-store in the US :  'No artist under the name Abe Lincoln'.
> 
> I really do hope that somebody can put me on the right track in this case.
> 
> Our saxophoneplayer Ronald Jansen Heijtmajer is momentarely writing a 
> special arrangement on Jack's  'Mis'ry and the Blues'. Can anybody provide 
> me the lyrics of that wonderful Teagarden-song?
> 
> And hopefully somebody on this wonderful global list has the lyrics of Chris 
> Barber's 'Take me back to New Orleans'  for me? Some parts of Barber's 
> lyrics are hard to understand for me.
> I must admit that it sounds ridiculous in these days....'Take me back to New 
> Orleans', because the  city is now completely flooded.
> 
> Immediately after the catastrophal tsunami in Asia a hughe international 
> campaign for help and assistance was organized. I don't think this will be 
> the case for N.O. now, ''cause,  eh,  'this is the rich country, America, 
> you know?' But there are a lot of poor people in New Orleans, who were not 
> able to escape on time. And what to think of the people who lost 
> everything....house, car, furniture, equipment.....horrable!
> 
> New Orleans - where it all started with our kind of music -- is hurt badly 
> and deeply now. I wonder if we could organize something, does'nt matter on 
> which scale. Maybe the jazzworld can do something special for the city that 
> we all love. Perhaps a small gesture can generate something bigger.
> 
> It's just a simpel idea.
> 
> I wonder: 'Is there a Bob Geldoff in our midst?'
> 
> Anyway...thanks in advance for anyone who is willing to help me out with the 
> lurics of  'Mis'ry and
> the Blues' and 'Take me back tot New Orleans'.
> 
> And let us dò something for the people over there....t
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Berry Zand Scholten
> trombonist of the Pepperhouse Swing Factory, The Netherlands. 
> 
> 
> 
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