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Its like OMYGOD, soooo cute!

no!

I read a fair bit of Spiderman in my young teens My Mom's best friend's son told me a few years ago a story I didn't remember. He asked me who my favorite superhero was. He told me his man was Superman, and I chimed in with ....Underdog! ... I never have been normal!

No offense Mr. Sangrey, but you need to work on your camera skillz...drop me a line if you would like to take good photos like I do! :rsmile:

I have to say, Mr Motion that is the best Avatar I have seen!

Now comes the test, put the ol' thinkin' caps on! >Test< Hey, we know I am not Menza material!

But first, the backstory.... http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/u.../05harrick.html

Cool...bet your car even had hubcaps, didn't it!

This is a very good Documentary on Artie Shaw from the mid 80's.... out of print of course(At least it was last year) http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:123757 Also, Richard Sudhalter did an interesting interview(They didn't seem to get along too well though) with Artie in his Book Lost Cords.

Back in the early 80's at the high school I went to in St. Louis, it seemed that half the kids had new Mustangs and Camaros..they were cool cars to have back then....I imagine that today that same school has a few Caddy SUV's in the parking lot... Nothing wrong with spending money if you have it, but geez...16, let them have a nice used car...let them aspire for something nicer past the age of 16.... The fancy car I had when I was 16...

I'm twelve years older than you. I'm starting to think that owning a vehicle might be kind of cool... Man, how can you afford to buy any jazz cds if you rent, instead of own a car?

Hume Cronyn???

I don't like her personally, but watch her get more time in jail than a rapist, or child molester!

a bit wordy, but......

You know, I recall living in Jacksonville, Florida when the Civil War documentary came out, all these Civil War historians came out of the woodwork saying they wouldn't even watch it, is was so full of shit....I just figured they were a bunch of dumb racists (As opposed to smart ones) And I did enjoy the baseball documentary a lot...then the jazz one came out, and wondered how many errors were in the Civil war docu.....

Your wife is that damn big of baseball fan???? You are too damn lucky!

interesting reading there Wesbed! Funny, Jsngry and Lon told us how they would not be posting much! And then there are 2-3 posters with 21 or less total posts on that thread!

Could have been me. Sorry!

Sure, I'll tell you more...just call me Eugene Chadbourne! And stick around for the photo! by Eugene Chadbourne Born Merwyn Bogue, this versatile and amusing artist managed to come up with a stage name that was even weirder sounding than his real name. Or actually, his boss, Kay Kyser, came up with the name when the trumpeter joined Kyser's band in 1931. At first, "Ish Kabibble" was just the name of a trumpet feature that allowed Bogue a chance to do his thing. When Kyser became the host of the enormously popular '30s radio program kraftily kalled Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge, Bogue began to portray a perpetually silly and addled character named Ish Kabibble, serving as a comical sidekick to the leader. Why Bogue decided to take his character's name as his own might have had something to do with being named Merwyn Bogue, but the most likely inspiration for the Kabibble name itself was a humorous popular song by Sam Lewis entitled "Isch Gabibble" or "I Should Worry," published in 1913. The lyrics to this song connect the title with a relaxed, casual attitude about life: "I never care or worry/Isch Gabibble, Isch Gabibble/I never tear or hurry/Isch Gabibble, Isch Gabibble/...When I owe people money/Isch Gabibble, Isch Gabibble," and so forth and so on. A further presence of at least the "kabibble" part of the name was in a comic strip of that time, Abie the Agent by Harry Hershfield. This comic presented the adventures of a character named Abie Kabibble. Both the song and the comic probably helped popularize the expression "ish kabibble" as slang for "who cares?" in the early 1900s. Defying this interpretation of his name, the trumpeter Kabibble remained one of the standout soloists in the Kyser group for nearly 20 years, minus a brief and unhappy stint with Spike Jones and the City Slickers. He often played the same sort of instrument as Dizzy Gillespie, a trumpet or cornet with the mouthpiece bent up at a 45 degree angle. He was a flashy soloist and handled the novelty vocals on numbers such as "Three Little Fishes," for which he is most famous. Yet it seems like what he was even more famous for was his haircut. His appearance was often compared to one of the Three Stooges, namely Moe Howard, and that is certainly no vision of loveliness. And although musical biographies should generally focus on music and not an artist's appearance, some of the following descriptions of the Ish-cut cry out for public awareness. "...It was extremely difficult to make out whether you were looking at the front or the back of his head." Or, Kabible's hair was "...like a brutal army haircut, put on the wrong way around. The result was that Ish Kabible looked somewhat like an Old English Sheepdog, but not half as pretty." Some musicians were even known to go around in Ish Kabibble wigs for a prank. The haircut seemed attractive in some way to Hollywood producers, as Kabibble was always given ample screen time in films in which he appeared with the Kyser band, including the horror comedy You'll Find Out, probably based on the comment Kabible's barber made to him before handing him the mirror, Swing Fever and Riding High. It is the horror production that remains the highlight of Kabible's haircut on film, as it manages to be more frightening than the combined efforts of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. The Kabibble character is also caricatured in the cartoon Hollywood Canine Canteen, directed in 1946 by Robert McKimson in which there is a dog character named Ish Kapoodle. One of the vocalists who worked with Kabibble alongside Kyser in the late '40s was Merv Griffin, his talk show days just a twinkle in his eyes. Upon leaving the band in 1951, Kabibble vamoosed to the tropical climate of Hawaii. He wrote his life story, Ish Kabibble: The Autobiography of Merwyn Brogue, which was published by the University of Louisiana Press. He spent his final years in Palm Beach, CA, and died of respiratory failure. Meanwhile another Ish Kabibble had emerged. Jerry Penfound of London, Ontario, was nicknamed "Ish" or Ish Kabibble, and from 1961 on played horns in Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks. This Kabibble was usually part of that group's soul-band horn section along with Garth Hudson on tenor or soprano sax. Hudson, of course, went on to great later fame as a member of the Band. Not so for Penfound/Kabibble II. Maybe he just didn't have the haircut. Dizzy ripped the man off! You can just see that gears were always spinning, can't you?

That is a good question! Anyone ever wonder if Duke used him during the ASCAP strike, meaning used Mercer to get around the issue? I don't mean to start a rumor, it just seems strange that he would write songs like Things Ain't What They Used to Be and Moon Mist , then not much more....

Kind of Dark, but that is Chick Webb on Drums, right???

Wow, three of them are still alive as well!

You can try that but it is not that easy. If you mark the value of a rare Mosaic 5CD set as "$30 (used CDs)" the customs may not notice the "fraud", but in doubt they can always ask the receipient for a proof of the value, which will then show that the set was auctioned for $250 ... Not necessarily. Moral issues aside, it shouldn't be difficult to load the auction page source code into an html editor, exchange the actual item number for an item number no longer in the ebay database, alter the price... Yep...not that I have done that...yet....I can't recall which country it was, or how long ago, but I recall one guy being kinda pissed that we forgot to mark it as a "Gift" Moral issues aside??? Taxing Jazz is immoral! : It should be a crime!

Actuallly, what I have heard of Freddie Slack (From Will Bradley/Ray McKinley) and from Ella Mae, I have liked...enough so that I would be interested in a Mosaic set...and I haven't gotten one in a while either....The Bradley/McKinley band was pretty darn good for a commerical big band IMHO...The Heps are nice. Good to see ya here again PD!