Saturday, February 11, 1939

T H E M I C R I G A N DAILY

Page Seventeen

Some Of The Past Bands Were wows

Wh iteman,
Olson Et A.
Recalled-
Morty Q. Dons Cabbie Disguise
To Reminisce About Bands And
Leaders Of Yore
By MORTY Q.
It just goes to show ya, pal, dat ya
can't get away wit it all da time.
Dere I wuz, sitting nice and quiet-
like wit nuttin on me mind but tought
of de boids and dat kind of stuff, when
it comes up an hits me like I-don-know-
wut. Holy smokes, I sez, as I jumps up
in de air. Holy smokes, I sez, de J-Hop!
An dere I was an I knowed dere was
somethin dat I forgot: de J-Hop.
So, wut about dis J-Hop, you sez?
Now, lissen, pal, how long you bin driv-
in' in dis boig? Oh, a year an a half,
eh? Ah, yer nuttin but a punk. When
yau bin pushin onea dese tings aroun
for as long as me, den, pal, ya won't
need nobody to tell ya wut is de J-Hop.
Wait'll ya see de class dat toins out for
dis ting, pal. I'm tellin ya, ya won't be-
lieve yer eyes when ya sees dem dames
wit der almost nuttin-on dresses. I'm
tellin ya, pal, dere aint nuttin like it.
And dose guys. Acourse, ya cauldn't
get me ta put on onea dem soupanfijh
tings but I guess dat's da way dey like
it. An dere all smilin an laughin. An
some is laughin too much. Ya know wut
I mean, don'tcha, pal? Yeh, dat's right.
An music, say, dat's where da ting is
de best. I'm tellin ya dey've had de best
bands in de woild for dis ting. Who is,
de ones dis year?
Wut's dat? Count Basie and Henry
Busse. I don know much about dat
Basie guy, but dat Busse is plenty all
right. I remember back in '34, when
dey announced dat Busse was onea
da bands, ya could hear de wails a
mileaway. But say, he toined out plenty
okay and de kids dey ate it up. De udder
band dey had dat year was a guy named
now lemme see . . . wut was dat
guy's name again . . . oh yeh: Kemp.
Have ya hoid of him?
De foist year I wuz runnin dis cal
aroun town, 1928, dey had tree bands
fer da Hop. Dat wuz de foist time. John

De foist guy ever to trow a baton over who made Olsen soun like Wayne King
da goal-posts at a football game come in slow motion. Da kids just hung
back to lead his band in '37. Dat was aroun dat bandstand all night.
George Olsen and he wuz plenty good. Now, how do ya like dat, pal? An
On de udder sidea de room was a col- here I wuz almost forgettin about da
ored gent named Earl (Father) Hines J-Hop.

Chapman, who come from de Bal Tab-
arin in Chicago who wuz plenty big, Em-
erson Gill, a noise in Cleveland at dat
time, and McKinney's Cottonpickers,
who wuz de ragea de East.
De next year, I can remember like
as if it wuz yesterda. De band dey grt
wuz Coon-Sanders. An, lemme tell ya
somethin, pal, at dat time dey wuz
Goodman, Clinton and Dorsey all
wrapped in one. In 1930, Fletcher Hen-
derson and Ted Weems wuz de music-
men. Dat wuz a combintion, huh? In
dose days, Henderson was recognized
as onea de best in de business.
Jan Garber wuz onea de guys in '31
and '36. I remember takin a couples
de boys in de band from de hotel and
hoid dem tell how Garber picked up
de band in a dime-a-dance joint near
Buffalo. Ain't dat a pip? Herby Kay wuz
de udder outfit in '31, and Jimmy Lunce-
ford tsole de show from Garber in '36. I
tink de kids enjoyed him bettern anya
de udders.
In 1932, I kin remember takin Paul
Whiteman from de depot. He give me
a halfabuck tip. And, say, his band wuz
plenty okay too. Russ Morgan distoibed
de proceedins from de udder side dat
year. Den came Ben Bernie and Don
Pedro, neidera which wuz much good.
An dey picked a coupla lemons again
in '35 when de signed up dat Art Kas-
sel guy and Anson Weeks. Dey wuzn't so
terrible but dey coulda done better.

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