[Dixielandjazz] Composer of "Roll The Patrol"

[Bob Romans]

PLAGIARISM..but...we ARE Cell Block 7!!! Some of us went to jail for far 
worse offences, which I won't go into here!!
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Composer of "Roll The Patrol"


> Hi to those interested in the origin of "Roll the Patrol,"
>
> Bruce Strangeland asked:
>
>>Does anyone know who wrote "Roll The Patrol" and when it was written?
>
> And Don Ingle responded:
>
>>Ask Bill Gunter - he sang it on a Cell Block 7 CD.
>
> I Respond:
>
> I don't know who actually wrote it. It's in the Firehouse Jazz Band Fake 
> Book and the only credits listed in the book are "The Black Dawg Jazz 
> Band" which recorded the song in 1989 with the vocal sung by Bob Leary.
>
> I first heard the song myself before I ever heard of the Black Dawg Jazz 
> Band. The year was 1988 (I think that's the year the Black Dogs were first 
> organized by Steve Yocum) and I was visiting a friend of mine (trombonist 
> Jim Maihack) who was living in Orlando, Florida at the time. While there, 
> Jim played a casual gig at a mobile home park grand opening over near 
> Tampa somewhere. There were three musicians on the gig (Maihack, Bob Leary 
> and a lady who played banjo and whose name I forget).  I went with Jim to 
> the gig and while there Jim introduced me to Leary.
>
> Jim said to Bob, "Play that new song you got for Bill . . ." Leary said 
> "ok" and proceded to play and sing "Roll the Patrol."  I, like everyone 
> who hears the song, was captivated by the funny lyrics and very playable 
> melody and I made a point to remember it myself (this was long before I 
> joined the Cell Block 7 Jazz Band).
>
> Unfortunately I didn't get around to asking Bob Leary where he got the 
> song so I can't help you there.  I wouldn't be surprised to find that the 
> song surfaced during the formation and early practice sessions of the 
> Black Dawg Jazz Band.
>
> If any of you know Leary you might ask him about it and post your findings 
> here. It's a popular song on the jazz circuit. Louis Brown used to sing it 
> with the Titan Hot Jazz Band and I've heard four or five other bands who 
> regularly perform the tune.
>
> Anyway, the earliest I can trace the song is Bob Leary in 1988.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill Gunter
> jazzboard at hotmail.com
>
>
>
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