[Dixielandjazz] Nicknames For Instruments

[Robert S. Ringwald]

 I wrote:

>> Didn't Eddie Condon call Dick Cary's peck horn a valve bed pan?
(snip)


Bill Haesler answered:

> He did indeed Bob!
> On the magnificent Condon All Stars "How Come You Do Me Like You Do" 
> recorded for Columbia on 24 June 1954. Wild Bill Davison, Billy 
> Butterfield, Cutty Cutshall, Lou McGarity, Dick Cary, Ed Hall, Peanuts 
> Hucko, Bud Freeman, Gene Schroeder, Condon, Al Hall, Cliff Leeman.
> It gets a second mention on the next tune "When My Sugar Walks Down The 
> Street".
> Playing them again now - for the umpteenth time. Real favourites of mine.
 (snip)

Mine also.  In "How Come You Do Me..." I believe it was, Dick Cary hits a 
clam on his solo on peck horn.  Condon says, "That's OK Dick, we'll send you 
back to Lake Placid."  Dick had been in the service stationed at Lake 
Placid.

Dick told me that of all the thousands of recordings he had done, thousands 
of compositions and arrangements he had done, that one note is the one that 
everyone remembers him for.

While in the service, stationed at Lake Placid, he often did not have 
permission to be working, playing music in NY.  Thus, he often did not get 
credit on the radio shows and arrangements that he wrote for them.

--Bob Ringwald
Now in Raleigh, NC