[Dixielandjazz] So who's this Jim Cullum...?

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Ah yes Ginny:

Good to hear it from the Ladies view point finally :))

It's Always been about the Dancers folks, we need to let them connect 
to the band and  the music and feel like they belong.

You see not everyone is blessed with the great gift of being able to 
play an instrument or even sing ( on key anyway) , but that does not 
preclude them from enjoying and liking music.   If it moves them well 
enough to make them want to move their bodies and dance you have a fan 
for life.

But we have had this discussion on the list before, some understand it 
and some don't or won't, probably because most of the OKOIm players are 
menfolks and they probably many years ago chose to play an instrument 
rather than learn how to dance, except for the drummers of course ( 
they always knew that way to a woman's heart and kitchen and bedroom 
was to Dance with them, or at least try )

Keep the dancers and you keep an audience.

Let the Dance revolution begin:))  Again and we will see the numbers of 
attendees climbing again.  :))

Cheers,

Tom "Ole Boogie Til you Puke" Wiggins

After all that's why God invented Alcohol  so we could all Dance :))    
( Like nobody's Watching)
Now Let's all go a Waltzing Mathilda around the Christmas Tree again.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gluetje1 at aol.com
To: mophandl at landing.com; dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] So who's this Jim Cullum...?

    In my early, slightly more relaxed (though plenty still going on)  
retirement
years, I am far more likely to go digging for what's "hidden" in this  
case
music that I enjoy along with all its history.  Reflecting back on my  
own
younger years plus watching the young around me--there is little or no 
time  for

that digging.  They are working, going to school, finding/mating  with 
romantic
partner's, raising kids--hoping for just a spot of leisure  and 
entertainment
most days, enough money to pay a sitter for an evening out  maybe once 
a
month, trying to manage a vacation most years--probably family  
oriented and
just
maybe there will be something the adults will enjoy  included.  If the 
goal is
to market to the group who is doing the  above--then the product, its
advertising, its delivery points, has to reach  their eyes and ears 
without them

having to do any digging.

I have a daughter the cruise industry has successfully marketed.  She
learned via her dad to look at the deck plan of any ship she is 
considering for
the
cruise.  But I'll wager that no one on this list will guess which item  
on
the deck plan is the most important to her.  The answer is the size of  
the
dance floor in the disco lounge.  She does not check what musicians  
will be on
board--she assumes that if there is a decent dance floor there will  be 
music to

move her body.  But of course the musician who wants to be  heard in a 
cruise
lounge, or the fitness "spa", or any other dance floor or  public 
setting is
not marketing directly to my or any other daughter.
Instead they are marketing to the agent/establishment who wants the 
repeat
business of the world's daughters.  Because when it comes to musical
entertainment, where the daughters (and mothers) want to go is where 
their  men
come
also.
Ginny
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