[Dixielandjazz] jazz obits

[Pat Ladd]

I am dragging Spike Milligan into the jazz scene on the basis that he played trumpet in a dance band.

Went to a concert of a  miscellany of Spikes stuff, including some of his music Ying Tong Song, Walking backwards for Christmas,last week> It was put together by his daughter and in her  programme notes she said that when Spike died the family wanted to put `I told you I was ill` on his gravestone. The vicar vetoed this. Spike held an Irish passport so they carved it in Gaelic

Just a thought.

Pat