[Dixielandjazz] Who wrote Sing, Sing, Sing

[Harry Callaghan]

Ginny:

I had no idea that Chuck was that much older than me but I did comment on my
program that he was possibly in elementary school when Chu Berry was playing
with Cab Calloway.

I saw Chuck at one of Alan Freed's R&R shows at the Brooklyn Paramount.  I
think it was 1955 and he came on stage wearing an orange zoot suit and did
"Maybelline"

Also on the bill was Al Hibbler as his "Unchained Melody" was riding the
charts at the time and it was only then that I found out he was blind.

The lady who really brought the house down though was singer/trombonist
Lillian Briggs in a gold sequin dress that looked as if it had been painted
on her.  Her big hit at the time was "I Want You to Be My Baby".......There
were several others appearing that night but too long ago for me to remember
them.

Harry

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 9:22 PM, <Gluetje1 at aol.com> wrote:

>  Just a reminder that *Chuck *Berry, born in 1926, is still performing
> regularly and selling out.  I think he may be staying local to St. Louis and
> not doing much traveling these days.
> (http://www.chuckberry.com/)
>
> Ginny
>
>  In a message dated 3/19/2011 7:07:20 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com writes:
>
> If I'm not mistaken, when Louis Prima re-recorded "SSS" for Capitol in the
> late 50s, he sang the lyrics to it as well, but right now I'm just too lazy
> to go check
>
> Funny you should make mention of Chu Berry, On my program that is airing
> right now on Radio OKOM, I made mention after playing a selection by Cab
> Calloway, how I received a jazz catalog years ago where someone, probably
> thinking that they were correcting a typographical error, changed it to
> Chuck Berry. who we know never played with Cab's orchestra..
>
> HC
>
>


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