[Dixielandjazz] Jass

[David Richoux]

I was just reading about the song "Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"  
that was obviously very popular in the 1890s onward (the original  
lyrics were much more graphic ;-) - anyway, Teddy Roosevelt was asked  
to compile a list of songs the troops sang in the Spanish American  
War and he deliberately left that song off the list, saying "That's  
not music - it's ragtime."

(from "Lost Chords" by  Gilbert Douglas, 1942)

Dave Richoux

On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:36 PM, philwilking wrote:

> We should never forget that the original (100 years ago) spelling  
> of "jazz" was "jass," and that it was slang for "musical manure."
>
> PHIL WILKING
>
> Those who would exchange freedom for
> security deserve neither freedom nor security.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Mopsick"  
> <mophandl at landing.com>
>>
>>> Yep Marek, dentist drill music. Same as the above described jazz  
>>> was to
>> most people back in 1920. So what's new? <grin>
>>
>