[Dixielandjazz] The first broadcast - Peg Meyer

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

And that folks led us to Buck ROGERS & THE DICK TRACY AND THE TWO WAY 
WRIST RADIO, and now we have  walk around Telephones, that take photos 
and play music too,  holy moses what is this world coming too  ?

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins
Saint Gabriel's Celestial Brass Band  & The Pearly Gate Singers

On my telephone now (  Operator operator  Give me Jesus on the line )   
followed by (Jesus on the mainline tell him what you will )   Well 
Glory Be. Everybody Shout Hallelujah, and be dancin in the Streets.   
oh oh oh  I THINK I HEAR A BRASS BAND COMIN' DOWN THE STREET playin' 
Saints go Marchin' In.   Ahhh  What a Wonderful WORLD IT IS AFTER ALL.

-----Original Message-----
From: Audrey Van Dyke <audrey at callitmusic.com>
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:52:57 -0500
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] The first broadcast - Peg Meyer

    Hope you will enjoy this paragraph from a book by Peg Myers 
(classmate and early bandmate of Jess Stacy) who wrote a book called 
Backwoods Jazz in the Twenties. 
 
  "When I was growing up our home was a favorite gathering place for 
musical groups....Several of the groups became pretty good, and on 
those occasions when some of the better performers were coming in , the 
news would be passed during the day along the party line telephone. 
Friends were told to listen for a certain series of jingles or rings 
which signaled that the group was going to perform a couple of numbers 
for the party liners to hear. As this was before radio, it must have 
been one of the first examples of broadcasting, or sending of music 
into musicless homes. It was a splendid idea especially in wintertime 
for the scattered and generally rural population." 
 
 Isn't that a great image? 
 Audrey 
 
  
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