Tuesday, July 28, 2009


Earl Park Indiana


Greta Matassa, The Song Is You
Earl Hines The Father's Getaway Bluenote, BN005
Earl Hines Reminiscing At Blue Note Bluenote, BN005
Earl Hines Swingtette Lazy Mornin'/Keyboard Kapers MGM, 10382
Earl Klugh Twinkle
Earl Hines (piano) A Monday Date (1928) OKeh, 8832
Earl Hines Fifty Seven Varieties (1928) OKeh, 8653
"Thanks For the Buggy Ride"Played by Earl Oliver's Jazz Babies (One of the many pseudonyms for Harry Reser and his Orchestra, Earl Oliver played the trumpet in Reser's orchestra.)Vocal Refrain by Tom Howard (A pseudonym for Tom Stacks, the drummer in Reser's orchestra.) Released in April, 1926.
Earl Hines & His Orchestra Sweet Ella May (1929) VICTOR, 22842
Earl Scruggs plays Fireball Mail on one of the Martha White shows in the 60's.
Earl Hines & His Orchestra Have You Ever Felt That Way? (1929) VICTOR, 38048
Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler
"Harlem Shuffle" is an R&B song originally written and recorded by the duo Bob & Earl (Bobby Relf and Earl Nelson) in 1963
"SLEEP," written by EARL LEBIEG, is played by the orchestra of Ben Selvin (1898 - 1980), who probably made more records than any other bandleader of the 78 rpm era.
Earl K. Brent will always be remembered primarily as the lyricist for the great torch song, “Angel Eyes,” written with Matt Dennis in 1946.Bruce Springsteen and Ella Fitzgerald.
Teddy Wilson & Earl Hines, Jazz piano Workshop in Berlin 1965
Earl Hines Orchestra Gator Swing (1939) BLUEBIRD, 10763
Earl Hines And His Orchestra In Swamp Lands (1940) Bluebird, B-11036

After working his farm out past Clarks Summit every day, Earl Lecherosky rarely had time to enjoy the large pond in the back that he had fixed up years earlier with picnic tables, horseshoe courts, and benches. So one evening he decided to go down and see how things were holding up. Much to his surprise, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee. As he came closer he saw it was a group of young women skinny dipping in his pond.
He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end. One of the women shouted to him, "We're not coming out until you leave."
The old farmer replied, "I didn't come down here to watch you ladies swim or make you get out of the pond naked. I only came down to feed the alligator."
Moral: Old age and treachery will always triumph over youth and skill.

Thursday, July 23, 2009


Ray, Indiana


Raymond Scott And His New Orchestra The Peanut Vendor (1939) COLUMBIA 35364
Ray Anthony As Time Goes By (1952) Capitol 2104
Ray Noble And His Orchestra I've Got You Under My Skin (1936) VICTOR 25422
Doris Day And Johnnie Ray Feat. Paul Weston's Orchestra Ma Says, Pa Says (1952) COLUMBIA 39898
Spike Jones And His City Slickers Cocktails For Two (1945) V-DISC 348A2
Ray Anthony O Mein Papa (oh! My Papa) (1954) Capitol 2678
Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind
Johnnie Ray A Sinner Am I (1952) COLUMBIA 39788
Ray Gelato with take on the Donald Fagen classic "Walk Between Raindrops"
Ray Barber Because Of You (1951) MERCURY 5643
Ray Pizzi plays Henry Mancini "Piece for Jazz Bassoon and Orchestra" live performance at Disney Hall, 2004
Ray Vega at Bern Jazz Festival
Ray Brown Trio feat. Regina Carter (violin) - Lady Be Good Larry Fuller - piano & George Fludas - drums from Ray's 75th Birthday Concert (2001).
Johnnie Ray Please Mr Sun COLUMBIA 39636
Ames Brothers Feat. Ray Bloch Orchestra String Along (1952) CORAL 60804

Ray


Ray Nowikowski had to be put in a nursing home da udder day and I went ta visit him der. His mind was pretty clear, but da early onset a diabetes was damagin his legs. He reminisced about his career as a physicist. He had studied at the University of Göttingen, the University of Copenhagen, the University of Hamburg, the ETH Zürich, da Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and Princeton University.
A bright young physicist, upon learning that he was denied tenure after six productive years at a University in San Francisco, Ray requested a meeting with the Provost for an explanation, and a possible appeal.
At the meeting, the Provost told Ray, " I'm sorry to tell you that the needs of the University have shifted somewhat, during the past six-years leading up to your tenure decision. In point of fact, what we now require is a female, condensed-matter experimentalist. Unfortunately, you are a male, high-energy theorist!"
Dejected but not defeated, Ray thought for a moment about the implications of the Provost's words. " Sir," he said, "I would be willing to convert in two of the three categories you mention, but ... I'll never agree to become an experimentalist!" He tried ta explain ta me the difference. Theorists seek to develop mathematical models that both agree with existing experiments and successfully predict future results, while experimentalists devise and perform experiments to test theoretical predictions and explore new phenomena. Ray did a lota da early work on string theory.String theory, as I understand it, says that all of the particles in the Standard Model are really infinitesimally small vibrating strings and that the physical properties of the fundamental particle (such as mass and charge) are all properties of the frequency of vibration. In some ways, this in intuitive. Einstein’s equation e=mc^2 says, among other things, that the mass of a particle is proportional to its energy. So if a string vibrates at a higher frequency, it will “appear” more massive. I asked him if dis applied ta da G string, but he just laughed. After teaching at many colleges and universities, his career ended tragically after his forced retirement. He went ta work for da MacDonald's Hamburger Research Institute at Pismo Beach California and was working on a way of cooking hamburgers using only da rays of the sun, but da optical system wasn't stable (Ray blamed it on da earthquakes in California) and it kept shiftin over ta da fryers, which were pretty close ta da grill space and setting the grease, ah, cooking oil, on fire. Ray tinks dat he contracted da diabetes by all dose Shamrock shakes he used ta drink, but I don't tink so myself. Hang in der, Ray.