[Dixielandjazz] DJ Themes

Sun Nov 4 11:04:34 EST 2018

It took me a few years to settle on an opening theme song for my show on
KFJC, but eventually I chose Cab Calloway’s “That Man is Here Again!”
https://youtu.be/lM9_XXbemTc

David Richoux

On Sunday, November 4, 2018, Charles Suhor <csuhor at zebra.net> wrote:

> I'm confused, or my memory is, or both (two good possibilities). I
> remember a genial Martin Block on the radio (Saturdays, around 1946) with
> the theme song "Without Music," linked below, by the Moonlight Serenaders
> with Tex Beneke. One clear recollection is Block playing Charlie Barnet's
> merciless put-on of traditional jazz on "Darktown Strutters' Ball," also
> linked below. He preceded it by saying. "Whenever Charlie Barnet is asked
> to record a Dixieland tune, he sticks out his tongue and says, 'NYAAAAH!" I
> liked it so much, I bought it! (The flip side was “Caravan,” with a young
> Maynard Ferguson.) I also bought Pee Wee Hunt's intentionality corny "12th
> Street Rag," which became a national hit. Okay, my tastes weren't very
> discriminating at age 11. But in 1947 I heard Rudi Blesh's live radio
> program "This is Jazz" with Wild Bill, Edmond Hall, Baby Dodds, Pops
> Foster, et al., and also the local bands of the revival, plus the treasure
> trove of records at Orin and Harvey Blackstone's New Orleans Record Store.
>
> Back to the DJ themes question—does anyone else recall Block and "Without
> Music"? And give a listen to Barnett's wicked satire. It's unfair,
> but the jaunty solos still make me smile.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RILM3N8Qr18
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX_RtUOo6cM
>
> Charles
> Charles Suhor
>
>
> On Nov 3, 2018, at 10:42 PM, Stan Brager <stanbrager at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I remember Block's theme being "It's Make Believe Ballroom Time". Give a
> listen.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67UhyDqvJss
>
> Charlie Barnet also had a song called "Make Believe Ballroom"
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67UhyDqvJss
>
> I've also changed the Subject to "DJ Themes"
>
> When I had a show on KCSN in Northridge, CA, my theme was Charlie Barnet's
> "The Right Idea".
>
> I had that job thanks to Bob Ringwald. Thanks, Bob, glad to have you back.
>
> Stan
> Stan Brager
> stanbrager at gmail.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Suhor [mailto:csuhor at zebra.net]
> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2018 6:56 PM
> To: Stan Brager <stanbrager at gmail.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz Downunder
>
> Roger, it's good to have a New Zealand jazz zealot among us. I was in your
> lovely country a quarter century ago with my sister, adding NZ to a trip to
> Sydney to visit our cousins with a common Croatian heritage. I'm a native
> of New Orleans, first and forever hooked on traditional and Dixieland jazz
> as a teen in the local postwar revival, opening to swing and bop when I
> took up drums under the influence of my brother Don, who was a versatile
> reedman in the city. I've haven't lived there for decades but have visited
> often and keep contact with old friends there.
>
> Stan Brager, I was a fan of Martin Block's radio show, also. The theme, as
> I recall, was "Without Music," sung by a Pied Pipers-style vocal group.
>
> Charles
> Charles Suhor
>
> On Nov 3, 2018, at 7:59 PM, Stan Brager <stanbrager at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Roger... I like stories like yours with the thrill of discovery of
> the music which peaked our interests and put us on the path of more music
> and other styles of Jazz and classical as well.
>
> That sounds like preaching to the Dixielandjazz Choir.
>
> My mother told me once that I used to jump up and down while she listened
> to Martin Block's radio show. Come to think about it, my younger sister
> used to do the same when in her crib.
>
> Stan
> Stan Brager
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Strong [mailto:roger at nikau-nursery.co.nz]
> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2018 6:07 PM
> To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz Downunder
>
>     Thanks for allowing me in the group.
>     I have been interested in jazz for most of my 77 years and started out
> as a 13 year old in 1954 when my older brother won a table top record
> player in a cycle race. Friends of his gave him some 78 records  and one of
> which was
> Jelly Roll Morton’s ‘Black Bottom Stomp’ backed with ‘Grandpas Spells’.
>     At the end of  the 1950’s a friend of my brother won an essay
> competition with the prize being a complete set of the 12 LPs of Morton’s
> Library of Congress
> recordings. My tastes in jazz currently range from  King Oliver up to
> about Zoot Sims with a liking for big band, Ellington and Basie as well.
> As long as it swings then its for me!
>     Finding jazz wasn’t easy in New Zealand in those days and records came
> mostly from the UK because of the restrictions which applied to overseas
> currency- especially US dollars and in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s it
> was illegal to have $US even in your possession. I recall being nervous as
> I had a US $10 note. I grew up in Christchurch and Operation Deep Freeze
> mission to Antarctica was based there so there were some dollars around.
>     A lifetime of collecting has given me a large collection but I am
> interested in exchanging with anyone.
>    There has never been a lot of jazz of any sort in New Zealand but jazz
> flourished in Australia after WW2 and I am interested in the traditional
> jazz from there. As I said it was much easier to get jazz from the UK than
> from anywhere else and I have a reasonable collection of jazz from there.
>     I live in a New Zealand town of about 25,000 – a tourist town in a
> scenic part of the country beside a large lake. I doubt that there is
> single traditional or indeed jazz fan of any sort in the area and so I rely
> on the internet for jazz contact.
>     As many of you of similar age will no doubt have noticed many of my
> jazz enthusiast contemporaries have a habit of dying and so I look forward
> to hearing from anyone with similar interests.
>    I was teacher for most of my working life and have an interest in
> history and New Zealand native plants as well.
>
>                Roger Strong
>
>
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