[Dixielandjazz] Music for the Kentucky Derby

[Daniel Barrett]

Greetings from the West Coast--

 

Re: songs appropriate for the Kentucky Derby: I am surprised that no one has come up with Horses Don't Bet On People.  (Was that recorded by Sammy Kaye, or Horace Heidt, or one of those other bands I didn't spend too much time listening to?) Also, the lyrics to Barney Google make reference to a horse race: "When the horses ran that day, Sparkplug ran the other way."

 

I'll try to come up with a few others. Tuck Me To Sleep in My Old Kentucky Home.  A musical acquaintance I knew years ago--Mark Turnbull, a poet/songwriter in the Dylan Thomas/Bob Dylan mold--once wrote a song called That Palomino Was a Pal O' Mine-O. 

 

How about, Horses-Horses-Horses? 

 

I am proud to have played for the Kentucky Derby myself, in 1981 (or '82?) when I was traveling with a very good band doing promotional work for Southern Comfort. I remember mint juleps being served, and don't remember much after that.

 

Well, if I get inspired with any more song titles, I'll try to check in again.

 

Good luck!

 

--Dan Barrett.
 
> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:45:30 -0400
> From: cornet at 1010internet.com
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Music for the Kentucky Derby
> CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> To: danpbarrett at hotmail.com
> 
> Hal Vickery 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
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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?
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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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