[Dixielandjazz] First Tune of the night

[Harry Callaghan]

Wrapping up with "The Saints"........how absolutely original and innovative.

I was thinking more along the lines of "We'll Meet Again" which was the
closing number in "Dr Strangelove" sung by Vera Lynn as they showed upon the
screen a mushroom cloud symbollic of the dropping of an H-bomb.

Morbid cuss, ain't I?         and it's only Monday

Tides
HC


On 7/26/10, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > For general audiences, we almost always end with the Saints. Introducing
> > this last song as our "mystery number". They we all look at each other
> and
> > say, it's a mystery, what is it, etc. <grin> Then we play the last few
> bars
> >  rubato and slightly out of tune so that it is unrecognizable to many in
> the
> > audience. This is followed by the drummer doing a New Orleans street beat
> > and then a roll off into the song which gets everybody in the audience up
> > and clapping along.
> >
> > Sometimes . . . gasp . . . the front line even marches out into the
> > audience. Depends on how we feel at the moment.
>
> Isradixie always does that - if the venue permits it - except that
> they all march, the drummer playing just his sticks.
>
> But then, they always play an encore - not always the same.
>
> Anotehr Israeli band - The Stompers - seems to finish with the Saints;
> however, we in the know always expect "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" -
> they never finish without playing that.
> Cheers
> >
> > As Bill Haesler would say, "That's Entertainment.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steve Barbone
> > www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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