[Dixielandjazz] Re Smokey Stover

[brian at radiojazz.co.uk]

 Brian Wood's amazing book "The Sing for Me" lists the man thus -

STOVER, Harold “Smokey” Drums
c1920: ? c1974
Chiefly of interest because he was the house drummer at Club Hangover, on
Bush and Powell Streets, in San Francisco in the 1950s-60s and according to
Derek Coller’s biography, Jess Stacy: The Quiet Man of Jazz he recorded
there with the likes of Meade Lux Lewis, as well as Lee Collins and George
Lewis. However, Smokey does not get a mention in Bethel, although Dorothy
Tait in Call Him George says that the owner of Club Hangover, Charles “Doc”
Daugherty, was a friend of George’s. Stover had been in the Claude Thornhill
Naval Band during WW2, and played with Wild Bill Davison in 1966, and Turk
Murphy, 1967-1970. There is mention of Smokey in Oh, Didn’t He Ramble where
Lee Collins refers to “The Hangover band .... in the summer of 1953 I think
was ... a swinging outfit” and says that Pud Brown was in the band too.

I hope this helps - Brian Harvey
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