[Dixielandjazz] Dorsey Berigan Solos and Corky

[dwlit at cpcug.org]

I heard the Dorsey Ghost band at one of the 1981 inaugural balls, and it
sucked; had a kid on electric bass who had it cranked up so loud it
dominated the band...

Both of the Berigan solos are in my "30s-40s Fake Book"; my "Song of
India" sheet is the record.

Dunno whether they're available on CD, but Berigan's big band made ca. 3
double LPs' worth of records for Victor, at least 3 cassettes. He also did
a couple of "Thesaurus" sessions that were reissued on Jass label. His
enjoyable mid-30s small band sessions were reissued on a couple of
Classics CDs.

--Sheik

> The two most famous Berigan solos on TD records, Marie and Song of India,
> were done on January 29th, 1937.     They are the ones transcribed and
> harmonized for the trumpets of the ghost bands headed by Sam Donahue,
> Murray McEachern, and Buddy Morrow.
>
> We saw the Donahue Dorsey band here in Sacramento with Ziggy Elman, Helen
> Forrest, and Frank Sinatra Junior, to name a few.    The band was powerfu,
> precise, l and entertaining, but Elman was in terrible shape as a soloist.
>
> We also saw the McEachern Dorsey band here,  which was also good and
> surprisingly had Corky Corcoran on tenor -- almost the last time Corky
> played with a name band.    After he was here he returned to his home
> town, Tacoma, to gig around with Red Kelly and Jack Perciful and Art Doll
> and Bill Ramsay and other Tacoma-Seattle friends before he died of throat
> cancer there in 1979.
>
> Bob Newman
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