[Dixielandjazz] Music for the Kentucky Derby

[Don Ingle]

Hal Vickery wrote:
> I know this one for sure:  Oliver Hardy.
>
> Hal Vickery
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>> 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
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>> 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?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Roy (Bud) Taylor
>>> Smugtown Stompers Jazz Band
>>> Traditional Jazz since 1958
>>> "we ain't just whistling dixie!"
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>  I'll aqdd another: "Horesey keep yopur till up" ala Freddy Schnicklefritz Fisher ad Spike Jones. Opening line. "Horsie keep your tail u[p, horsie keep yout tail up, keep the sun out of my face!"	
Don Ingle  (who played it with Freddie.)
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