[Dixielandjazz] non-PC Choo Choo

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Chattanooga, indeed!

Surely the opening, "Pardon me, boy"  (Boy!!!) is racist and these days unacceptable?
Roy Williams did remember Al Casey, a mild man as I remember, getting het up in a misunderstanding when a Welsh fan using the traditional "Boyo" form of address, was misheard by Al as "boy" and deeply and understandably resented. 

Surely this number could evoke creative responses? 

Maybe Ken Mathieson could do a dirge version called the "Ecclefechan pech-van" ???? 

Pech (which is not pronounced Petch and is also a German word for misfortune) is a Scots verb meaning to breathe heavily, strainedly, as when struggling up a hill.  Surely the depressing unregenerate banal cheeriness of the Miller chestnut has suggested other healthily sardonic parodies to somebody? Krakatoa Bang-Bang?  



Robert R. Calder