[Dixielandjazz] jazz obits

[Jack Mitchell]

>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

Probably quite true, but it was Spike himself who suggested that would be 
the words to put on his headstone.

Best wishes
Jack Mitchell