Klarinet Archive - Posting 000499.txt from 2000/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music and Academic Achievement
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:55:43 -0400

At 01:39 PM 4/11/2000 -0400, Don Longacre wrote:
> Bill: Yes, Spike Jones was a paragon of comic music and ya had to love him.
>I understand his rehearsals were as intense as any "legit" bands in getting
>the sound effects just right.

I should think even MORE intense! The timing had to be just right! And
his bands were perfectly capable of playing straight, too.

Sometimes when I despair of today's pop music,
>I recall some of the epic tunes of the forties such as:
>
>1. Flat Foot Floogie with a Floy Floy
>2. Three 'iddy Fishies ina 'iddy Biddy Pool
>3. Mairsy Doats and Doazy Doats and Little Lambzy Divy
>4. Hut Sut Ralson on a Rillera and a Fralla Fralla Suet
>
Not EVERY song from those times was an Ira Gershwin or Cole Porter lyric
masterpiece, but the odds were much improved over today! (Yeah, yeah, baby,
baby, $%#*@-----.)

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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