Jazz 625

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Hello.

The strains of Careless Love introduced a programme of traditional jazz,

a programme in which I shall be doing some pretty hefty name-dropping,

starting with a band which is so well known to television viewers

the world over that you've no doubt already recognised

the classic features and sartorial splendour of Mr Acker Bilk

And His Paramount Jazz Band.

Here they are with Nagasaki.

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Acker Bilk and the band with Nagasaki.

The army, the civil service, and jazz reference books

have one thing in common they all refer to people as personnel.

Here's the personnel of the Paramount Jazz Band.

Acker Bilk on clarinet, Colin Smith trumpet,

John Mortimer trombone Tony Pitt guitar and banjo,

Stan Greig piano, Tucker Finlayson bass, and Ron McKay drums.

Now, wherever a jazz event of any importance takes place, either

here or on the continent, you are almost bound to find our first guest.

She's equally popular as a singer and as an inveterate jazz enthusiast.

Here she is to sing Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out.

It's Beryl Bryden.

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# Once I lived the life of a millionaire

# Spending my money, I didn't care

# I carried my friends out for a good time

# Buying bootleg liquor, champagne and wine

# When I began to fall so low

# Nobody wanted me round their door

# If I ever get my hands on a dollar again

# I'm going to hang on to it till them eagles grin

# Nobody knows you

# When you're down and out

# In my pocket, not one penny

# And my friends

# I haven't any

# But if I ever get back on my feet again

# Then I'll find all my long-lost friends

# Seems mighty strange without a doubt

# Nobody knows you when you're down and out

# I mean, when you're down and out

SHE HUMS MELODY

# When you're down and out

SHE HUMS MELODY

# Not one penny

# And my friends, I haven't any

# And I fell so low

# Nobody wanted me hanging around their door

SHE HUMS MELODY

# Without a doubt

# No man can use you when you're down and out

# I mean, when you're down and out. #

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Yeah.

Beryl Bryden with Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out,

and if she's ever down and out, she can always flog that dress!

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Jazz, like wine, has its vintage years,

and surely 1900 was one of them.

In that year Louis Armstrong, Tommy Ladnier, George Brunis, Albert Nicholas were all born

in New Orleans, and so too was our special guest tonight.

Around him, legend and controversy have accumulated, but this is a fact -

that very few living jazz musicians can boast a greater influence

on young musicians or a larger and more devoted

band of followers the world over.

Many of his fans are here in the Marquee Club -

as many, in fact, as we could get in - to welcome him.

So here with St Philip's Street Breakdown is George Lewis.

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Well done.

Yeah.

Every great jazz musician has one number which is his one-way ticket

to immortality, and that surely is George Lewis's, Burgundy Street Blues.

George formed his first band in 1923 with Henry "Red" Allen on trumpet,

and it's odds-on that one of the numbers that they played then is the

one that they're going to play now with Acker and the band, Panama Rag.

Yeaaa-aah!

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HE WHISPERS INAUDIBLY

"CORRINE, CORRINA"

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Two clarinettists, one from New Orleans, one from Somerset,

perpetuating the New Orleans clarinet style in Corrine, Corrina.

Now Beryl Bryden returns to the stand and we have the entire mammoth

cast assembled for There'll Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight.

# Come along, get ready Wear your brand, brand new gown

# Cos there's gonna be a party in this good, good old town

# Where you know everybody and they all know you

# And you've got a jazz band just to drive away the blues

# When you hear that music start to play

# Tap your feet and start to step and sway

# And when you get that rhythm You're gonna shout and sing

# It'll be a hot time in the old town tonight

# My baby, when you hear those bells go ting-a-ling

# All join in and gaily you will sing

# And when the verse is through In the chorus we'll all join in

# There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight

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# There'll be fun for everybody in this good, good old town

# Our gals will hug and kiss you and they'll never let you down

# I've a handsome, loving sweetie and we're gonna be wed

# I just hugged and kissed him and to him then I said

# Please, oh, please Oh, do not let me bawl

# You are mine and I love you best of all

# You gotta be my man or I'll have no man at all

# There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight

# My baby

# When you hear those bells go ting-a-ling

# All join in and gaily you will sing

# And when the verse is through and in the chorus we'll all join in

# There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight

# There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight. #

Yeah!

Yes, A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight.

And I'm not going to try

and follow that except to say that all too soon that's all now

from Mr Acker Bilk And His Paramount Jazz Band with

their guest Beryl Bryden and of course, from America, George Lewis.

From them and from me here at the Marquee Club, goodbye for now.

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# I'll be glad when you're dead You rascal you, Acker

# I'll be tickled to death when you leave this earth, you dog... #

Ooh, you don't mean it, Beryl!

# I'll be standing on the corner high when they bring your body by

# I'll be glad when you're dead You rascal, you

# You asked my wife for some cabbage, rascal

# Wife for some cabbage, you dog

# Asked my wife for some cabbage You ate just like a savage

# I'll be glad when you're dead You rascal you, yeah. #

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