Strictly For Music Lovers
Nr. 750.
I started this daily Keep Swinging Web Log in February 2006 ( more then two years ago).
750 contributions have been posted, thanks to my co-editor Jo and a dozen guest contributors. Thanks for that !!
Up to now: almost 125,000 visitors ( now 12,000 a month - more then 400 a day). Most visitors come from The Netherlands ( 36%) and the USA (24 %), followed by Belgium, Great Britain and Germany.
750 blogs ...... Let's have some fun: Strictly For Music Lovers
Sorry ..... I finally did it. Yesterday it arrived - I allowed myself to buy the 4CD Proper box with the music of Spike Jones and his City Slickers - Strictly For Music Lovers !!
Born in December 1911 (he passed away in May 1965) he got his first drum sticks from a worker at the railway station where his father was stationmaster.That man made drum sticks out of chairlegs. With his drum sticks he made music on pots and pans and so his parents gave him a set of drums for Christmas, but he had to promise .... no jazz please !! At the highschool he formed his first band, the Calipat Melody Four, succeeded by a dance orchestra titled Spike Jones and his Five Tacks, which brought him some local fame. He started more professional in the orchestras of Everett Hoagland, Kearny Walton and Rube Wolf in the Paramount Theatre. He is best remembered as the percusionist in the Bing Crosby band. Early 1940s, tired of playing all those smooth arrangements, he founded the City Slickers and got a hit with Der Fuehrer´s Face in 1942. On stage, and later on TV he used visual and sound effects on his washboard, including gunshots, cowbells, auto horns and whistles, the Toeterix avant la lettre , as a strange-looking dute with his mouth filled with chewing gum, strange costumes and a lot of vaudeville and circus acts. I love to show you a typically Spike Jones performance of the dixieland standard The Twelfth Street Rag. If you have heard this version, you can never listen seriously to this rag again .....
AT RANDOM:
EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME - TINA BROOKS Quartet: Lee Morgan trumpet - Tina Brooks tenor saxophone, Sonny Clark piano, Doug Watkins bass, Art Blakey drums. Recorded in Hackensack NJ on the 16th of March 1958 for Blue Note. Isn't that by change? 50 today
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl
Nederlands ( To the English translation )
no. 750
Ik begon deze dagelijkse Keep Swinging Weblog in februari 2006 en tot op heden heb ik 750 bijdragen gemaakt samen met Joergen natuurlijk en een tiental gastredacteuren. Iedereen bedankt uiteraard.
750 bijdragen - bijna 125.000 bezoekers in ruim twee jaar ( nu 12.000 per maand - meer dan 400 per dag).
De meeste bezoekers komen uit Nederland ( 36%) en de Verenigde Staten (24 %), op afstand gevolgd door België, Groot Brittannië en Duitsland.
750 blogs ...... vandaar een iets minder serieus onderwerp: Strictly For Music Lovers.
Sorry ..... Ik het eindelijk aangedurfd en mezelf cadeau gedaan .... gisteren kwam het met de post ..... - de 4CD box met Spike Jones and his City Slickers - Strictly For Music Lovers
Ik wil graag nog een paar voorbeelden van zijn shows laten zien, zoals deze typische Spike Jones uitzending met het doodgespeelde nummer The Twelfth Street Rag, waar je, na deze Spike Jones uitvoering, nooit meer gewoon serieus naar kunt luisteren..
16 maart / March 16th:
1928:
- hello montreal / mississippi mud = seven little polar bears
1958
- everything happens to me / minor move / nutville / star eyes / way you look tonight - tina brooks quintet
1978:
- bossa longa / olinga / round midnight = dizzy gillespie quartet
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl
Retrospect
Blue Serge Veckans skiva and Nordisk catalogue Bob Rigter - Vreemd Altamiro Carrilho
Keep Swinging Oscar Aleman Flexible Records Choro Music Hit of the week - Durium
1 Comments:
Congratulations, Hans - you've achieved a high number of blog messages in two years, amazing. It's ok to make some noice according this, Spike Jones is a well chosen item for that occasion, I agree!
Jo
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