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So Long, Bro'
Jazz-lover Marvin Raskin got a royal send-off from the Duke.
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Jazz music before services at
a funeral home? ... Attendees
hardly believed their ears as Duke
Ellington's theme song, "Take the A Train"
wafted from speakers at Ira Kaufman's in
Southfield.
Brother Marvin Raskin was a jazz buff,
and his wife, Shirley, hoped it would be
appropriate to play the music that Mary
loved so much ... Marv, being a member
of the Hot Jazz Society and close friend
of its founder, Jim Taylor, along with
New McKinney's Cotton Picker's soloist,
Dave Wilburn, along with Marv's musical
passion, were reasons enough for Rabbi
Daniel Syme to give his OK for Shirley to
bring a disc.
Mary made a lot of people happy when
he would tote that box of 78 rpm records
to South Haven ... Many would ask Benny
Teitel, operator of Mendelson's Oakland,
where Mary usually stayed, if he had
brought his record player and box of Noro
Morales, Jan August, Earl "Fatha" Hines,
Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Jonah
Jones, Cab Calloway, etc., including of
course, just about every 78 recording that
the original Ellington band had ever made.
Wonder if Mary met "the Duke" up
there? ... If so, what a thrill he must have
gotten.
"The Duke Ellington music played at
Marv's funeral was very appropriate,"
writes Robert "Bob" Moreillon, Chuck
Muer's former right-hand public relations
man. I'm also a jazz fan, but not as rabid
as Mary was. I tend more to Dixieland.
As a member of Jim Taylor's Hot Jazz
Society, I helped him promote funds for
tradition of handling kosher products for
the community. Thank you for making
note of the fact that was Norman Cottler's
aim for a Jewish supermarket. Norman,
my father, would have been so pleased." ...
Sylvia (Caller) Cohen.
ERRATA, TYPO, ETC. Dept ...
Apologies to songstress Judy Collins ...
She is 68, not 80 ... That 80 is the age of
Meadow Brook mansion, in whose ball-
room Judy appeared to honor the 60th
birthday of Elaine Serling, given by hubby
Michael Serling ... Thanks to Michael,
Steve LeVine, Sandi Matz, and Fred Levine
for noting that Judy was born on May 1,
1939.
REUNION DEPT. ... 55th togetherness
shindig by Detroit Central High class of
1952 is Saturday, Nov. 3, at Peking House,
Royal Oak ... For more info, call Selma
Cohen, (248) 541-7864.
CONGRATS ... To Blanche Duke on
her birthday ... To Jeanette Epstein on her
76th birthday ... To Susie Klein on her
birthday ... To Lillian Dean Title on her
86th birthday ... To Shirley Schultz on her
85th birthday ... to Leonard Schultz on
his 90th birthday ... To Harold "Hutch"
Bobroff on his 85th birthday ... To Mille
Chad on her 75th birthday ... To Miriam
Meyers on her 80th birthday ... To Shirley
and Ed Rosenberg on their 61st anniver-
sary ... To Sheila and Steve Silverstein on
their 26th anniversary ... To Florence and
Leonard Furman on their 60th anniver-
sary ... To Shirley and Leonard Schultz on
their 62nd anniversary.
Andrew MacDonald, associ-
the Louis Armstrong statue
ate casting director of CBS's
in New Orleans, which stands
Guiding Light . . . He and Bob
at the local cemetery there.
Lambert, associate director
When it is my turn to visit the
of ABC's All My Children,
great Dixieland sextets in the
will give valuable informa-
sky, I plan to have a cocktail
tion and tips on how to act
reception at a local hotel. I will
in soaps and how to get jobs
have a half-dozen CDs of my
in them ... For more info,
favorite jazz, gospel and country
give Michelle a call at (646)
music to be played, so anyone
Danny Raskin
479-0076.
who comes, and there won't be
Senior Columnist
THE RESTAURANTS
many, will have to enjoy these in
AND caterers usually go all
return for an open bar and hors
out with their best tastings for the annual
d'oeuvres."
ANOTHER APPLE doesn't fall far from Lights, Camera, Action by Variety, the
Children's Charity ... But the big thing
the tree with Michelle Rott Rosenblum,
each time for this full evening of food,
daughter of musical localites Shel and
drink, and entertainment is where the
Carol Rott, behind that Soap Opera
money raised goes and how it is used ...
Intensive Weekend Workshop being held
About 21 restaurants and specialty cater-
here, Saturday, Oct. 27, and Sunday, Oct.
28, at Hotel Sheraton Novi ... Dad had the ers are again donating their yummy food
samplings for this year's always wonderful
Shel Rott Orchestra and Mom, Carol Rott,
Variety event ... It'll be 6 p.m.Tuesday,
used to belt out songs with the band.
Michelle has been singing and perform- Oct. 23, at the Emagine Theatre at
Fountain Walk shopping center on W. 12
ing the past 15 years in New York and in
Mile, Novi, with the happening highlight-
Michigan on the Michigan Star Clipper
ing another sneak preview of a Hollywood
Dinner Train, etc. ... The Detroit Pistons
feature film, silent auction, cocktails and
loved it whenever Michelle sang the
national anthem at their basketball games, the usual large selection of choice vittles.
Michael Bressler and Judith Solomon
winning every time she warbled for them
are co-chairs, with proceeds raised for
... When Michelle was music director at
Variety's Bikes For Kids, one of its fine
Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington
programs that help children with special
Hills, she increased its chorus from four
needs in the Metro Detroit area ... The
to 88 young folks ... Now a New York
Variety office has tickets, (248- 258-5511),
resident, Michelle was recently flown here
$50 per person and patrons $100 p.p.
by Jeff Bass, writer-producer for Eminem,
MAIL DEPT. ... "I enjoyed your
to record two new songs Jeff has written
mention of Dexter-Davison Market and
with Julie Glazer.
Norman Cottler and your recognition of
The soap opera weekend workshop is
the Farm Fresh market keeping with the
being put on by both Michelle and David
Danny's e-mail address is
dannyraskin@sbcglobalmet.
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