When Jazz Was King On The South Side Of Chicago

And When NBC Came To Town To Investigate

1. Ray Price via verycoolsounds:
Fancy girls out working honky tonk’s a place
these were a part of the good old days
When I used to swing on the South Side of Chicago
Twenty-first and Wentworth was its beating heart
the place with action first got it start
Back when jazz was king on the South Side of Chicago

I still can hear those silver trumpets blowin’
in little places filled with people glowin’
New Orleans was groovy
Memphis light and gay
And who could put down New York’s Broadway
But there was everything on the South Side of Chicago
Yes, there was everything on the South Side of Chicago
2. Via hoffmannjazz:
“11/26/61 NBC-TV Chicago & All That Jazz – NEW ORLEANS BAND: Red Allen (t) Kid Ory (tb) Buster Bailey (cl) Lil Armstrong (p,v) Johnny St. Cyr (bj) Milt Hinton (b) Zutty Singleton (d) Mae Barnes (v,d) *plus CHICAGOANS: Jimmy McPartland(t) Jack Teagarden(tb) PeeWee Russell (cl) Bud Freeman (ts) Joe Sullivan (p) Eddie Condon (g) Bob Hagart (b) Gene Krupa (d) Blossom Seely (v) Garry Moore (m.c.).”

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Posted on January 17, 2012