[Dixielandjazz] Sheik

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

Sheik - Re: Routines -- I tried to contact you off list but it keeps getting 
sent back - Larry
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From: <dwlit at cpcug.org>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 12:29 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Sheik


> And my dixieland band is the "Sheiks of Dixie" and my 20s band is the
> "Charleston Sheiks"...
>
> The Middle Eastern theme does indeed relate vaguely to my former vocation,
> but it dovetails nicely with the "oriental" theme in 1920s music,
> including, the movie "The Sheik" and "The Sheik of Araby" (my SOD's--"Same
> old Dreck"--theme song, *of copuirse*). Another tradition is use of
> "Barons", "Kings", etc. in band names. As for my dance band, "Sultans of
> Swing" ("SOS"...), the name was offered to me by a bar owner because it
> was right up my partiocular alley, and at the time (1979), it was the
> title of a popular rock tune, so the name recognition factor was
> h-u-g-e...
>
> And I use "Sheik" as my cyberspace name because there are so damned many
> Davids and Daves, including a couple of David Littlefields, one of whom is
> also a banjo plucker...But I'd never use it around Arabs, because they get
> insulted and huffy veddy easily about that stuff...
>
> --Shriek d'Agony
>
> At 11:44 PM 01/13/07 -0500, Ginnie wrote:
>>
>>And that's only part of the story.  His web site is American Music 
>>CARAVAN.
>>One of his groups is SULTANS OF SWING.  Several groups have  the name 
>>Sheik
>>in the title.  Why, why, why? :?).  I have never ask  Dave why, but I
> deduced
>>there was a relationship between his titles and his bio  which is on the
> page
>>copied here.  Scroll to the bottom for his "real life"  bio.  But as I was
>>skimming his music bio (again), I just noticed that he  "hates" ride
>>cymbals-- and
>>have now given him even more esteem that he already  had for being so
> helpful
>>to me on several occasions over the past couple of  years.
>>>_http://americanmusiccaravan.com/davepage.html_
>>(http://americanmusiccaravan.com/davepage.html) <
>>
>>Ginny
>>
>>In a message dated 1/13/2007 6:45:47 P.M. Central Standard Time,
>>tcashwigg at aol.com writes:
>>
>>wonder  what they think of SHEIK Littelfield's fake books :))
>>
>>Tom  Wiggins
>
>
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