[Dixielandjazz] List of compositions by K. O. Eckland?
Bill Haesler
bhaesler at bigpond.net.au
Fri Mar 25 16:46:55 EDT 2016
Dick Baker wrote:
>> On "Live and in Choler," by the World Famous Desolation Jazz Ensemble and Mess Kit Repair Battalion (Clambake C213, 1979), we find
> Who Dat? (Eckland) A band original that was written for and is dedicated to Quasimodo, that legendary halfback for Notre Dame.
> The former national anthem of the WFL. K.O. also wrote a lot of Beethoven's stuff when he felt up to.
Dear Dick.
As usual you have opened up another can.
And it's not beer.
<big grin>
Tom Lord's 'The Jazz Directory' lists six recordings of "Who Dat?"
Leo Anthony 1954 (Ray's brother)
Bonnie Graham 1950s
Desolation Jazz Ensemble and Mess Kit Repair Battalion 1979
*Harold Dejan's Olympia Brass Band 1984?
Thom Rotella 2007
Roscoe Mitchell 2013
* Composer credit is given to (Dat's Music, Inc.) on the LP 'Best Of New Orleans Jazz!' Mardi Gras Records MG 1004.
(The YouTube versions play "The Saints", with a Who Dat vocal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWvcMggoFrA )
I have also found:
Lee Roy & His Band Who Dat! (Buck Dance).
Then there is the Woody Herman 1943 Decca 18169 "Who Dat Up Dere?" (Walter Kent - Sidney Russell) that I still remember from my youth.
https://archive.org/details/WoodyHerman-WhoDatUpDere
Cheers,
Bill.
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