[Dixielandjazz] Blueblowers

[David Richoux]

Thanks for digging that up!
If thee was a comb it must have been really tiny...

The Bay Area trombonist Bob Brennan also plays a hot comb - he always  
uses a credit card slip (difficult to come by in these days of  
thermal printing) and it works great. American Express paper seem to  
work better than others for some reason.

Dave Richoux

On Apr 13, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Gluetje1 at aol.com wrote:

>> From liner notes on a CD of these guys: "The original Mound City Blue
> Blowers was formed by Red McKenzie, Dick Slevin and Jack Bland in  
> 1923.  At  the
> time Red McKenzie was a bellhop, at the Claridge Hotel, in St.   
> Louis......Red
> McKenzie played what he called a "hot comb", which was really  just  
> an ordinary
> comb with a strip of paper held against it.  Most writers  state  
> that McKenzie
> used tissue paper, but Eddie Condon insisted that he only  used  
> strips of
> newspaper from the New York World."  I believe he has a  little  
> pocket comb for,
> "I Ain't Got Nobody".
>
>   The date on this film clip in 1929.  Note who is playing   
> guitar.  (In 1924
> the Mound City Blue Blowers record of "Arkansas Blues"  and "Blue  
> Blues" sold
> over a million copies.)
>
> The Mound City Blue Blowers with Red McKenzie (kazoo and vocal),  
> Jack Bland
> (banjo), Carl Kress (guitar) and a very entertaing Josh Billings  
> (suitcase)
> play  "I Ain't Got Nobody" and "My Gal Sal".
>
> Ginny
>
>
>
> In a message dated 4/13/2008 1:00:07 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> sharp-b at clearwire.net writes:
>
> In this  video of the Blueblowers, does anyone have any ideas on  
> how the
> melody is being played?  Sounds like like kazoo, but I can't see  one.
> All I can see is a metal cup.  Did he have a hole in  it through which
> he blew, or what?  Also what do you think the  wrapping is, on  
> which the
> the drummer is beating  ?
>
> http://www.dailymotion.com/related/1970987/video/x17yn3_mckenzie
> -1929_music
>
>
> Bill  S.
>