[Dixielandjazz] Composer of "Roll The Patrol"

[Len Nielsen]

The liner notes with the 1989 cassette....Uncle Yoke's Black Dog Jazz 
Band....Come Hear The Truth...show the following;

Roll The Patrol
(Executed by B.Leary)
Arr. D. Jones             (4.33)

All other tunes give composer credits with exception of...Raise Your 
Eyes Up....a gospel tune which is the final tune on the cassette and 
which they used to close there sets at jazz gigs.

 From this, I have always assumed that this tune is P.D. or Traditional 
as Jerry Gordon has already mentioned. But then, you know what "THEY" 
say about people who assume......

Len Nielsen

P.S. What does executed mean in this reference? :)

Bill Gunter wrote:
> 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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