[Dixielandjazz] Arthur Godfrey

[Hal Vickery]

And for all these years I thought it stood for soprano piano.  (Okay, not really...)

Hal Vickery
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marek Boym<mailto:marekboym at gmail.com> 
  To: Hal Vickery<mailto:hvickery_80 at msn.com> 
  Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List<mailto:dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com> 
  Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 3:28 PM
  Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Arthur Godfrey


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


  On 23/08/2008, Janie McCue Lynch <janie39 at socal.rr.com<mailto: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<mailto:janie39 at socal.rr.com>
  >
  > *"Life Without Music Would Be a Mistake"*  Nietzsche
  > [image: Keyboard]<http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxmk762MNUS<http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxmk762MNUS>>
  >  *-------Original Message-------*
  >
  >  *From:* Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com<mailto:marekboym at gmail.com>>
  > *Date:* 8/23/2008 1:01:31 PM
  > *To:* JanieMcCueLynch <janie39 at socal.rr.com<mailto:janie39 at socal.rr.com>>
  > *Cc:* Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:rsr at ringwald.com>
  > > 530/642-9551
  > > 916/806-9551 Cell
  > > www.ringwald.com<http://www.ringwald.com/>
  > > Fulton Street Jazz Band
  > >
  > > Hear our new CD at:
  > > www.fultonstreetjazz.com/music.htm<http://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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