[Dixielandjazz] Rounders (was The Who ?)

[David M Richoux]

Billy Novick (reeds with New Black Eagle and Leon Redbone and many  
others  http://www.billynovick.com ) had a lot to do with the  
soundtrack. Still can't find much more than that.
http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=1575

Dave R.


On Feb 10, 2010, at 6:28 PM, Bill Haesler wrote:

> Bob Smith wrote provocatively:
>> I've heard the term "Super Bowl" that sounds like an oversize Wok,  
>> but I believe is a kind of deified "Rounders" that I used to play  
>> back in England in my young days (before Jazz bowled me over).
>
> Dear Bob,
> "Rounders"????
> That British/Australian baseball game has nothing to do with the  
> Superbowl and a subject we must not mention on the DJML.
> It, has something to do with what our US friends call football.
> Duck for cover! (both also cricket terms).
> But it does raise a legitimate question.
> Last night on Sydney cable TV, a Foxtel channel aired the 1998 John  
> Sayles' film "Eight Men Out".
> The soundtrack featured a dixieland band throughout, including  
> scenes showing musicians, including the popular New Orleans singer  
> Leigh Harris.
> A rare soundtrack CD provides the tune titles from the film, which  
> follows the true events of the 1919 Chicago 'Black Sox' Scandal  
> involving Joe 'Shoeless Jackson (no, not the Benny Goodman  
> impersonator who played clarinet on the February 1942 Mel Powell  
> Commodore session) and others, in which the White Sox players  
> deliberately lost the World Series.
> As the film was made in 1998, surely, someone on our great list can  
> tell us who the musicians were.
> Kind regards,
> Bill.
>
> Here is the track listing for the soundtrack CD.
> 1. 	"After You've Gone" performed by Leigh Harris	
> 2. 	I Be Blue	
> 3. 	Eight Men Out	
> 4. 	The Busher	
> 5. 	Eddy Loses	
> 6. 	Not Guilty	
> 7. 	Dempsey's Rag	
> 8. 	"I Be Blue" performed by Leigh Harris	
> 9. 	Do Or Die	
> 10.	Come On Chick	
> 11.	It's Over	
> 12.	I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles	
> 13.	"I'm Forever Blowing Ballgames" performed by John Sayles	
> 14.	Eddie's Revenge	
> 15.	Lefty Loses	
> 16.	Reporter	
> 17.	Call Me Buck	
> 18.	"After You've Gone" performed by Leigh Harris	
> 	Total Album Time:	39:33
>
> "Leigh Harris:
> A down-home rock, blues, and jazz vocalist from New Orleans, Leigh  
> Harris first appeared in a Sayles film as a nightclub singer in  
> Eight Men Out. "Sayles came into a club in New York City where I was  
> singing one night," Harris remembered. "He approached me and said.  
> ‘I just think you're so wonderful.' A year later he called me for  
> the movie." She retuned to Sayles territory four years later,  
> playing Kit in Passion Fish. In her musical career, Harris has  
> shared billing with such artists as B.B. King and Elvis Costello. In  
> 1977 she co-founded the well-known New Orleans group Little Queenie  
> and the Percolators and in 1999 released her first solo album, House  
> of Secrets." [From John Sayles Stock Company website.]