<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Were there not questions about why Bunk Johnson chose Chloe? <br></div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">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. <br></div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">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...</div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">a nice vehicle for parody too, that song which displaces the accents on the name CAP-ry<br></div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">'twas on the Scilly Isles the sorry woman met him, <br></div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">a handsome lad was Jim but, oh, so dim,</div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">and now her wish is really to forget him</div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">their time together seemed so long, so grim <br></div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">his line of talk soon ceased to be compelling,</div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">a P.G. Wodehouse creature to the wood <br></div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">as if the Scilly Isles should have another spelling <br></div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">and her finishing school had taught her to be rude, <br></div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div class="ydpd261fbfcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Robert R. Calder <br></div></body></html>