[Dixielandjazz] First Tune of the night

[Marek Boym]

On 26 July 2010 23:49, Harry Callaghan <meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Have heard this being done in Breda - by Rebecca Kilgore, I believe,
albeit without the mushroom cloud.

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