[Dixielandjazz] song of the swamp of Capri?

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Were there not questions about why Bunk Johnson chose Chloe? 

I'd presume Ken Colyer could hardly have missed hearing the famous recording of Gracie Fields singing "Isle of Capri" (the lady was big in British Films and a collossal pop star in the 1930s. which is how she managed to go live on that very island after wartime hostilities et cetera, and no doubt her association with the song satisfied the need to earn some money to which Bert the Bandsman refers, regarding the composer's motives.  Ken Colyer grew up where and when it would have been difficult not to have heard the tune. 

What was in "Ice Cream" for George Lewis? Or some of the more exotic tunes recorded by Tiny Parham and more recent revivers of New Orleans preservation jazzing?  A few useful syncopations and I'm wondering not merely about more useful material as prominent as any Beatles numbers Bob Wilber organised for WGJB, but about pop songs stride pianists might find useful, Donald Lambert and the sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor...
a nice vehicle for parody too, that song which displaces the accents on the name CAP-ry

'twas on the Scilly Isles the sorry woman met him, 
a handsome lad was Jim but, oh, so dim,and now her wish is really to forget himtheir time together seemed so long, so grim 

his line of talk soon ceased to be compelling,a P.G. Wodehouse creature to the wood 
as if the Scilly Isles should have another spelling 
and her finishing school had taught her to be rude,  


Robert R. Calder 
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