Comments on: Saturday Matinee: 1967

By: Bunk Strutts

Bunk Strutts — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:16:50 +0000

Apple– “Sing Sing Sing” was Goodman’s classic. Aside from Stan Kenton, the most talented group of musicians was assembled by conductor and arranger Carl Stalling. Go google.

By: Apple

Apple — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:03:32 +0000

Benny Goodman was clarinet, wasn’t he? Oops. Im just a youngin’ who saw these boys in movies and heard them on a local radio station when I was a teen in the 80′s! I don’t remember much of my music history, even though Mrs. Green beat it into us!

By: Bunk Strutts

Bunk Strutts — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:22:51 +0000

cbull– “Down in Nagasaki Where the Men Chew Tabacky and the Women Wicky Wacky Woo.” You just can’t make up stuff like that anymore. We need to compare lists, dude. Email me. =)

By: cbullitt

cbullitt — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:18:22 +0000

Yeah, Nat was great. There was a series of albums put out in the 70s called the RCA Vintage series–had everybody. I had one album called “Jugs, Washboards and Kazoos.” It was like the 1920s crossroads where jazz, bluegrass and country music met for a second. Jugband players playing smoking hot 20s jazz like “House Rent Rag.” fantastic stuff.

By: Bunk Strutts

Bunk Strutts — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:10:47 +0000

Apple– NOOO! Tommy Dorsey on trombone, Ziggy on trumpet! cbull-- You sussed me! 1920s-30s jazz is my favorite big band era. Benny Moten, Red Nichols, King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong, even Nat Shilkret are some of my favorites. Whiteman, well okay.

By: cbullitt

cbullitt — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:35:25 +0000

Nah, go back further to the 20s. Paul Whiteman, George Olsen, Fletcher Henderson, they were playing hot jazz with orchestras–even the record labels had house orchestras; The Columbians and the RCA Victor Orchestra. Guys like Bix Beiderbecke, Bunny Berigan, Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti, Bing and the Rhythm Boys. Great Stuff, like this:

By: Apple

Apple — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:52:56 +0000

Tommy Dorsey…with the clarinet? I don’t know Ziggy Ellman…

By: Bunk Strutts

Bunk Strutts — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:32:15 +0000

Apple– I was more partial to Tommy Dorsey (with Ziggy Ellman.) “Well Git It!”

By: Apple

Apple — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:36:15 +0000

Glenn Miller is one of my favorites. I love all of them, the sound was amazing.

By: Bunk Strutts

Bunk Strutts — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:58:24 +0000

Apple– Beat me Daddy. Who’s your favorite Big Band? The one that’s too hot to handle and too cold to hold? Talk to me deb o’ de gams! I gotta gamble on a ramble, got some shavin’ in the bramble. Hep dis hep cat chop some wood.

I don’t know what the hell that meant, but it sure was hep.