[Dixielandjazz] Arthur Godfrey

[Marek Boym]

Pardon a foreigner - but what does SP stand for?
Lou McGarity and Cutty Cutshall were great trombone players; in
addition to countless Condon Mob records, they were with the original
World's Greatest Jazz Band.
I have never heard Remo Palmieri play Dixieland; swing - yes!
Whatever happened to Pee Wee Spitelera?
Cheers

On 23/08/2008, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:
> I used to listen to his radio show when I was a kid and early teenager, only
> to hear the Dixieland band.
>
> For a lot of the time, a young Dick Hyman was on piano.  Lu Magarity (SP) or
> Cutty Cutshaw (SP) was on trombone.  A clarinet player named Pee Wee
> Spitalero SP) and a guitar player named Remo Palmary.
>
> Pete Fountain appeared on the show quite frequently also.
>
> There was a bass player and I think his son played drums but not sure.
> Geeze, this was some 50 years ago.
>
> Godfrey played terrible banjo and a cross between a ukulele and a guitar
> instrument that someone designed for him.  I think it was more like a
> 4-string guitar.
>
> During the solos on a song, Remo on guitar and Godfrey on banjo would trade
> off backing the soloists.  Even at a very young age, I felt sorry for the
> soloist that had to have Godfrey backing him up.  Not only did he play
> badly, he spent the whole song laughing.
>
> That band though was one of my early influences for Jazz, along with a
> record of Lu Watters and the YBJB, the Firehouse 5+2 and Bob Scobey's Frisco
> JB.
>
> In fact, when I was about 9, I used to watch the Scobey band with Clancy
> Hayes on KPIX Channel 5 in SF.  They did a 15 minute show, which was
> expanded to 30 minutes on Tuesday nights.  It was called "Clancy's Corner."
>
> How come I can remember all of this but can't remember what I had for dinner
> last night?
>
> --Bob Ringwald K6YBV
> Note new e-mail address rsr at ringwald.com
> 530/642-9551
> 916/806-9551 Cell
> www.ringwald.com
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> "My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or
> a politician. And to
> tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. I, for one, believe the piano
> player job to be much more honorable than current politicians."  --Harry
> Truman
>
>
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