[Dixielandjazz] YBJB, Lu and Turk

[ross anderson]

G`day Ed,
What a "great story" !!!
Great memories , I for one thank you for sharing them with the folks` on 
DLJML.
Best wishes, Ross Anderson,(New Melbourne Jazz Band, Australia)
www.newmelbournejazzband.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EDWIN COLTRIN" <boreda at sbcglobal.net>
To: <rossanmjband at iprimus.com.au>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 4:06 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] YBJB, Lu and Turk


>I guess I am one of the few persons who followed the band fom Redwood 
>Canyon Road to the Dawn Club, through the war, the re-opening of The Dawn 
>Club and the move to Sally Rands place in El Cerrito Ca, called Hambone 
>Kellys, alive.
>
>  Phil Elwood and myself, although unknown to each other convinced the lady 
> at Big Bear In , Canyon Road tht we would behave and NOT  drink, sit deep 
> in a corner and catch YBJB,
>
>  When the band moved to SF and opened at the Dawn Club, I had no problem 
> entering and sometimes not dronking. Stood in front of the band at Wally's 
> side and became acquainted with all the members. Somewhere in Dotties' 
> photo collection there is a picture of the back of my head, with Wally 
> playing piano.
>
>  Lu was a little hard to talk to, Harry Mordacai (sp) was almost 
> impossible, Turk was no problem, Bob Helm, used to refer to me as Brother 
> Red Eye, Dick Lammi, who was Rosacrucian, easy to talk. Bill Dart  was 
> easy, Bob Scobey was easy o talk with .As was Wally.
>
>  Sunday morning, Ted Lenz, a DJ from KYA, did a remote from the Dawn Club, 
> "Titled Jive at 1105" the frequency of KYA. The bar served a drink called 
> a Ted Lenz Special, which I belive was a pink Gin Fizz. Although I was 
> only 17, I had no trouble being served.  Ah those were the days.
>
>  After the war at Hambones I used to stay after the nights playing and 
> engage in conversation and listen to comments , Augie Girreto was always 
> there, Mom and Pop Scobey who sold and collected tickets were gone early, 
> Barbara Scobey after Alexander was born didn't showup too much, Bill and 
> Edith Dart had me up their place for dinner several times, I took  a 
> futile period of time for Piano lessons from Wally, football practice and 
> piano lessons did not mix so Wally and I parted  Brother Red Eye  and his 
> wife had  me for dinner, Lizzie Miles cooked a mess of Red Beans and Rice 
> which she fed a couple of poor white boys on an afternoon in Oakland.
>
>  Those days are imbeded in my memory, after the band broke up I followed 
> the Scobey band from Lafayette to Victor and Roxies in Oakland and first 
> heard George Probert. Jack Buck played Trombone, valve, at that time.
>
>  Leaving the Bay area and moving up the mountain , only 40 miles from 
> Reno, diminished my association with the band members.. Came off the 
> mountain a couple of times and visited Earthquake Mcgoons. But it was a 
> long drive and I hadd too much to do up on the mountain.
>
>  Thjis may sound like a long personal dissertation of my relationship with 
> the YBJB, but in the pre-war years I spent every Sat night in SF at the 
> Dawn Club and after the war, Friday  and Saturday night in San Francisco, 
> the same at Hambone Kellys including a midweek night,(Tues or Thurs), in 
> the back room , where Wally played.
>
>
>  Slainte
>
>  Ye Olde Mouldy Fygge
>
>  Ed Coltrin
>
>  Ah those
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