[Dixielandjazz] Jazz on Muzak

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hey Dave:

That's about as fast as many Okom listeners can hear it, as they are 
slowing down in later years :))
They no longer Strut with the Bar b Que  they just sort of shuffle 
along with it :))

I know folks who sing Jingle Bells as a dirge too complete with tears.  
:))
well I think she outgrew it by now but I swear I saw and heard it 
happen.

Cheers,

Tom "The Dirge Music Master"  Wiggins
Saint Gabriel's Celestial Brass Band

Bye the way folks I have instigated a new "Pre Need Program" for Second 
Line Funerals by my band:

We call it "Pay Now Die Later"   And you can have it anytime you want, 
even before you go to the big jam session in the sky, just think you 
can attend your own Funeral and Second Line, and enjoy it as much as 
those other folks, and simply get it out of the way, not to mention 
getting your share of the liquor cabinet before they drink it all up in 
your honor and memory.



   Brian Harvey wrote:

  Waiting for an airport minibus in a Nairobi (Kenya) hotel foyer this 
last
Monday morning at 6am guess what was on the "muzak" system?  Kenny G 
tracks.
It seemed weird at the time.......


In 1984 I was in a Ponderosa Steakhouse in New Jersey having breakfast. 
 The
Muzak was playing a slow, syrupy ballad that sounded vaguely familiar.  
I
searched my memory banks and realized that this dirge was Struttin' 
With Some
Barbecue, taken at about a third of its normal tempo.  Talk about weird!

Dave Stoddard



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