[Dixielandjazz] Music for the Kentucky Derby

[Harry Callaghan]

Of course, I could say for that you deserve a laurel bestowed upon you, but
that would be too corny.......even for me.


On 4/2/10, Hal Vickery <hvickery_80 at msn.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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