[Dixielandjazz] Eddie Condon

[Steve Voce]

There's been some conversation about beer in another jazz group to which 
I belong. Bob Van Langen wrote
> Eddie Condon's recipe for a healthy  breakfast:
> "Take the juice of a pint of whisky  and..."
>
I thought a couple of stories I sent in reply might resonate here.

Steve Voce
>
>
> It was the juice of a/quart/ of whiskey...
>
> One night during the Forties when Eddie Condon 's New York jazz club 
> closed in the small hours, Wild Bill Davison decided he was too drunk 
> to drive the 40 miles to his home. Condon suggested that he should 
> stay the night at the apartment Eddie shared with his wife Phyllis. 
> The apartment was unusual in consisting of a long corridor with 
> bedrooms leading off it. Eddie and Phyllis, who couldn't stand the 
> noises he made in the night, had separate rooms.
>
> The two men had a nightcap and Bill asked where he should sleep. 
> "Second on the right," said Condon.
>
     Bill found the room and went to bed. When he awoke in the morning 
he found Phyllis Condon asleep beside him.
>
> "Hey, Eddie," Bill said at breakfast. "Did you know I slept with 
> Phyllis last night?"
>
> "I'm sorry," -said Condon. "I should have said second on the left."

>
> On tour in England some reporters came to Condon's hotel room to 
> interview him. He was lying on the bed, laid low by the previous 
> night's festivities.
>
> "Would you mind sitting up for the interview please Mr Condon?" asked 
> one of the hacks.
>
> Condon peered up blearily.
>
> "I don't normally regard myself as an athlete," he said.
>