[Dixielandjazz] Music for the Kentucky Derby

[Harry Callaghan]

How about "Camptown Races".........I'd suggest "William Tell Overture"
(Spike Jones style) but only if you had someone who could duplicate Doodles
Weaver's part, which was truly a classic. I believe it could really be the
life of the party.........and then there's "Blue Moon of Kentucky".

It was a slow ballad so I don't know how it would fit in with your style but
Eddy Arnold had a hit with "The Kentuckian Song" from the Burt Lancaster
movie of the same name............and George Jones had a record some years
ago called "The Race is On".

And that reminds me of another of my favorite trivia questions.  A few years
before the Lancaster movie, John Wayne starred in a movie called "The
Fighting Kentuckian".  Who remembers who played his comic sidekick and no,
it wasn't Gabby Hayes

HC.


On 4/1/10, Roy (Bud) Taylor <budtuba at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK folks.
>
> We're playing for a Kentucky Derby party on May 1.  I'm looking for
> suggestions of songs that fit that motif.  My Old Kentucky Home is a
> given...what else would you suggest?
>
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> Roy (Bud) Taylor
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