[Dixielandjazz] Is a Jack higher than a spade??

[Don Robertson]

I'm looking at my 10 in LP of Firehouse Five Goes South.  The back of 
the album cover has a big picture of Pogo wearing a fireman's helmet, 
charming a fire hose with some kind of horn.  The liner notes are 
written by Walt Kelly.  The cartoon is dated 1954 and the band has 
George Probert, who we saw at Fresno this past weekend, on sop sax. 

Anybody want a copy of the cartoon contact me off list and I'll scan it in.

BTW, I wore an "I Go Pogo" button on my High School graduation gown in 1952.

Don Robertson
Napa, CA

rahberry at comcast.net wrote:
> Dan,
> Add me to the Pogophile list!
>   -- Rae Ann
>
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>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Dan Augustine <ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu>
>   
>> Charlie and DJML--
>>      Well, Charlie is the winner of the beautiful vacation in 
>> Irwindale (courtesy of Frank Zappa's estate) for knowing that the 
>> quotation on my signature tag was from Pogo:
>>
>> **--------------------------------------------------------------------**
>> **  Dan Augustine  --  Austin, Texas  --  ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu
>> **  "Is a Jack higher than an Ace or smaller than a Spade?"
>> **  "It's both, leastwise it's mostly." -- OK, who said that?
>> **--------------------------------------------------------------------**
>>
>>      I've been a Pogophile (to which Charlie alludes and belongs) 
>> since about 1950 and have um... about 20 Pogo Possum comic books 
>> (i.e., books of the comic strips from the daily papers).  Much to the 
>> befuddled distress of my highschool English-teacher, i used to lapse 
>> into Pogoese in both speech and prose at odd moments.
>>      And, lest you think that Pogo comics are off-topic to dixieland 
>> jazz, know that Pogo's creator Walt Kelly was a big fan of Ward 
>> Kimball's (and vice versa), who was inter alia the leader of the 
>> Firehouse Five Plus Two.  Not only THAT, BUT (as i believe i have 
>> recounted previously on this List) i am the proud owner of an 
>> original Long-Playing record called "Songs of the Pogo", written (and 
>> in a couple cases, sung) by Walt Kelly himself (which LP is now 
>> available on CD).
>>
>>      Dan
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>     
>>> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:26:20 -0500
>>> From: "charles coleman" <charliew8fim at verizon.net>
>>> Subject: Is a Jack higher than a spade??
>>> To: <ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu>
>>> Cc: "charlie coleman" <charliew8fim at verizon.net>
>>>
>>> Dan - Don't throw out Pogo-isms and not expect to get a response!!! 
>>> That was from Walt Kelly, speaking for the three bats, Bewitched, 
>>> Bothered and Bemildred as they sat playing cards.
>>> Regards,   Charlie "Pogophile" Coleman
>>>       
>> -- 
>> **--------------------------------------------------------------------**
>> **  Dan Augustine  --  Austin, Texas  --  ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu
>> **      "We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo
>> **--------------------------------------------------------------------**
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