[Dixielandjazz] Arthur Godfrey

[Marek Boym]

Thanks to you all.  I didn't know that.
Cheers


On 23/08/2008, Janie McCue Lynch <janie39 at socal.rr.com> wrote:
>
>    Usually that means "Spelling," Marek....eg, the writer is indicating
> that he may be spelling the word incorrectly.   What may have made it
> clearer is that one usually also includes a "?" along with the "SP."
>
>
>
>   *Janie*
> janie39 at socal.rr.com
>
> *"Life Without Music Would Be a Mistake"*  Nietzsche
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>  *-------Original Message-------*
>
>  *From:* Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com>
> *Date:* 8/23/2008 1:01:31 PM
> *To:* JanieMcCueLynch <janie39 at socal.rr.com>
> *Cc:* Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Dixielandjazz] Arthur Godfrey
>
> 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
> > Fulton Street Jazz Band
> >
> > Hear our new CD at:
> > www.fultonstreetjazz.com/music.htm
> >
> > "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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