[Dixielandjazz] Some Birthdays July 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

[Harry Callaghan]

Mention of Carmen Dragon reminds me of Burr Tillstrom's "Kukla, Fran and
Ollie" where Oliver Dragon claimed to be cousin to the Hollywood Bowl
conductor.

Even though it was a puppet show, I always thought it was aimed at an adult
audience (or maybe I was just too adult for my 10 years)

Of course, we all know that Carmen's son was Daryl Dragon, partner of Toni
Tennille of "Captain and Tennille"

Since their hits together, Toni has cut a coupla excellent albums featuring
songs of the big band era and really has quite a set of pipes

Also, I had never heard of Annie Ross until the '57 album, "Lambert,
Hendricks & Ross Sing a Song of Basie".  I have since come to discover that
in 1943, she portrayed Judy Garland's piano playing sister in "Presenting
Lily Mars"....It is now my mission to locate that movie..

Tides,
HC


On 7/28/10, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:
>
> July 24
> 1908: Cootie Williams
> 1909: Joe Thomas
> 1921: Billy Taylor
> 1953: Jon Faddis
>
> JULY 25
> 1899: Johnny Wiggs
> 1906: Johnny Hodges
> 1930: Annie Ross
> 1934: Don Ellis
>
> JULY 26
> 1902: Gracie Allen
> 1909: Vivian Vance
> 1914: Erskine Hawkins
>
> JULY 27
> 1949: Maureen McGovern
>
> JULY 28
> 1901: Rudy Vallee
> 1907: Leon Prima
> 1914: Carmen Dragon
> 1923: Ray Ellis
> 1924: Corky Corcoran
> 1937: Peter Duchin
>
>
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