[Dixielandjazz] WATERMILL, LI (was Up a Lazy Liver, with bacon & onions)

[Harry Callaghan]

Although I lived the last 18 years of my life in New York on Long Island
(1958-1975) I was not familiar with the town that Steve made mention of
regarding the Ford gig, so I put the question to my friend "Crazy Henry"
Newberger.

This was his response.


 Hello Harry!

   Water Mill is just east of Southampton. As you pass Southampton, you go
about 2 miles and you have to make a sharp left on Sunrise Highway to
continue towards East Hampton. That is Watermill. It has lovely homes, a
small retail area (on Sunrise Highway [which is really Rt. 27 out there).

    In the Water Mill public schools, if you misbehave, you have to drink a
domestic Chablis at lunch.


Henry

 In a message dated 2011-03-18 5:54:41 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com writes:

I should have asked earlier...........where is Water Mill, LI?  I don't
think I've ever even heard of it.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Harry Callaghan
<meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com>wrote:

> I was not previously aware that McNamara's reign as head of FoMoCo was so
> short.
>
> I do, however, remember reading somewhere that he was the man responsible
> for ruining the Thunderbird by deciding to make it a "family car"
>
> And this is the man that JFK appointed to be his Secretary of Defense?
>
> I'll bet the folks over at GM were happy as I can't see it doing anything
> but increasing the sales of their Chevy Corvette.
>
>   On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Stephen G Barbone <
> barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote (polite snip)(
>>> To: Marvin Ipswich <cornet at clearwire.net>,      Dixieland Jazz Mailing
>>> List
>>>
>>> Marvin Ipswich wrote [in part]:
>>>
>>>> I'm wondering if anyone else hears Hoagy sing "liver" instead of "river"
>>>> at
>>>> 1:26 on this 1930 version
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQwCi8f3iuk
>>>> Sadly this is not the best quality recording since it seems to have been
>>>> taken off the original 78.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Dear Marvin,
>>> Sorry, but no. Unfortunately.
>>> It would have been a pleasure to confirm your discovery.
>>> (I used earphones to check my copy on the JSP CD Hoagy 2.)
>>>
>>
>> It does sound like "liver" at 2:13, at least on my Mac, but I'll defer to
>> Bill and his earphones.
>>
>> But, back in 1960, I played a party at Henry Ford II vacation house in
>> Water Mill, Long Island. (He loved Dixieland) It was a a going away party
>> for Robert McNamara, who served just one month as President of Ford and then
>> resigned to become Secretary of Defense for JFK.
>>
>> There were 7 of us in the Southampton Dixie, Racing and Clambake Society
>> Jazz Band playing before 8 people in the living room. Henry serving us
>> drinks himself as there were no servants present.
>>
>> He requested "Up The Lazy River" and then drink in  hand proceeded to sing
>> the entire chorus leading off with  . . ."Up the Lazy Liver".
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steve Barbone
>> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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- Norvel Jackson (1921-1990)