[Dixielandjazz] The Under Cover Spy & Muskrat Ramble

[Harry Callaghan]

I don't know anything about this Cambodia/Muskrat Ramble thing but I caught
a glimpse on TV this morning of the gorgeous redhead whose call to her
father apparently brought down the recent Russian spy ring.

I would have been happy to play any kind of music to her liking with my
window open if I thought it would lead to us meeting

I believe she's the same one that Jay Leno showed a picture of the other
night which caused Joe Biden to say "I wasn't the one who wanted to send her
back"

Yes, I'm a dirty old man.....took seventy years to get this way and now I've
got something to be proud of.

Tides,
HC


On 7/12/10, Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 12, 2010, at 12:04 AM, Jack Mitchell wrote:
>
> For his first assignment, he was posted to Cambodia and told
>>
>>> to find an apartment near the royal palace, open the windows at night,
>>> and play "Muskrat Ramble". Prince Sihanouk, the eccentric ruler of the
>>> country, was reputed to be an amateur musician who loved jazz and had  his
>>> own band. Who knew but what he might hear that plaintive sax in  the jungle
>>> night and invite you young american to come on over and sit  in? Alas, this
>>> never happened."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I don't know about that Prince, but the King Of Thailand was a more than
>> adequate
>> jazz saxophonist, and often jammed with Australian musicians such as
>> Lachie Thompson
>> and Laurie Gooding when they were stationed or living in his country.
>>
>> In 1977 the Col Nolan Quartet in Sydney recorded one of his compositions,
>> LOVE IN SPRING, and in the early 1960s the Port Jackson Jazz Band had his
>> composition WHEN in its repertoire.
>>
>>
>
> And, of course, the King of Thailand was an ardent Benny Goodman fan. BG on
> visiting that country performed both for and  with the King sitting in circa
> 1956. King Bhumibol was also reportedly a great fan of Jack Teagarden and
> Lionel Hampton. And in 1996 he jammed with Warren Vache, Benny Carter and
> others.
>
> The Prince Sihanouk affair took place during the early stagers of the
> Vietnam war with the US intervening. The prince, like thailand's King, was
> both a composer as well as a jazz musician. In trying to keep Cambodia out
> of the conflict, made a couple of deals with the North Vietnamese. The USA
> intelligence agencies were trying to get close to the Prince hence the
> Muskrat Ramble.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
>
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