[Dixielandjazz] Young man with a horn

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Long ago in a pub in Glasgow which did not then have its cultural pretensions of later years -- although Billy Connolly used to play banjo there, and it has been a jazz venue -- customers were startled by the sound of a man struggling to emerge from the toilet with a small but powerful dog affixed by his forelegs round one of the man's legs.
Haw, said the man, this dog's got a helluva bad dose of the horn!
Local patois causes such ambiguities!

Hence amusement in some areas reading the regional idiom echoed in the title YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN.
Earlier Buster Bailey or his recording company was plainly unacquainted with this idiom

-- his virtuoso title excluded YOUNG but added GOES BERSERK. 



your reporter,
Robert R. Calder