[Dixielandjazz] Music for the Kentucky Derby

[Hal Vickery]

I know this one for sure:  Oliver Hardy.

Hal Vickery

> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 07:31:02 -0500
> From: meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Music for the Kentucky Derby
> CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> To: hvickery_80 at msn.com
> 
> 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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