[Dixielandjazz] Ice Cream - Marsalis Clapton & Barber

[Bert Brandsma]

This Barber video has really nothing to do with the record I meant.
I was talking about the 1959 live (audio) record from Berlin, with 16.000 people in the audience.
The Barber band in that year had scored a multi million selling hit record, even in the USA and made a 41 concerts tour through the USA as one of the very few non American jazzbands ever. (USA laws are pretty restrictive against foreign musicians)
The 1972 video is 13 years later, at a time Barber was trying to compete with the upcoming beat / rock generation of musicians. But you really cannot compare that to 1959.
Kind regards,
Bert Brandsma




> From: barbonestreet at earthlink.net
> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:51:04 -0500
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Ice Cream - Marsalis Clapton & Barber
> CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> To: mister_bertje at hotmail.com
> 
> Dear Bert
> 
> Here is a band with what is close to the Original Lyrics. I play as a  
> sideman in Tex Wyndham's local band in the Wilmington Delaware area  
> and he does the exact original lyrics. Very few bands do these. Seems  
> most copy the George Lewis versions which are not the original words.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkIF42ShFps
> 
> and here's a Barber version .
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOEXOBx9eVc&feature=related
> 
> Personally, I prefer the Marsalis/Clapton version to either of these.  
> VBG.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
> 
> 
> On Dec 26, 2011, at 1:44 AM, Bert Brandsma wrote:
> 
> >
> > What I found interesting about the Marsalis / Clapton version is  
> > that he sings the 1950's version of the lyrics.
> >
> > Earlier this year, while on tour with his band, I asked Chris Barber  
> > about these vocal lines and why they differ from the original  
> > version of the 1920's.
> >
> >  He then told me, that in the 1950's they changed the lyrics, since  
> > several of the Ice flavours mentioned in the original didn't exist  
> > in the United Kingdom.
> >
> >  I teased him a bit , and asked if he was sponsored at that time by  
> > Coca Cola, but that was not the case. (Coke should have done that,  
> > of course!)
> >
> >  To my ears the Clapton / Marsalis version is not bad at all, I've  
> > heard much worse, but there are few versions that are better.
> >
> > A very exiting version exists from 1959, Barber live at the  
> > Deutschlandhalle, Berlin.
> >
> > Both trumpet and clarinet solo's on that version are clearly better  
> > then what I hear on the Marsalis Cd, but we shouldn't forget that  
> > the CB band in that time could play this
> > music daily for large audiences without having to play other kinds  
> > of music to make a living. And Monty Sunshine, to mention just one,  
> > was an excellent musician of course.
> >
> > BTW, Eric Clapton also made recordings with Chris Barber, and does  
> > have a lot of respect for CB, who was an inspiration for many Rock  
> > musicians from the UK, like some Rolling Stones / Beatles category  
> > have mentioned.
> 
> 
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