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Old dance orchestra with sousaphone
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 2:10 pm
by Ace
Nice sousaphone playing. Good intonation, tasty dynamics and attacks. Have any players on this board ever played jobs like this with dance orchestras of that style and instrumentation? Pleasant music to listen to. Must be a joy to play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E3N-DV3xFc" target="_blank
Ace
Re: Old dance orchestra with sousaphone
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 2:24 pm
by Three Valves
I must check out Doc Scantlin again.
It's been a few years!!
http://www.docscantlin.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank
(Dammit, sousa nearly cropped out of pic)
Re: Old dance orchestra with sousaphone
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 2:58 pm
by Three Valves
You were supposed to rehearse in the bus you lazy...
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl2uy_ ... sket_music" target="_blank
Re: Old dance orchestra with sousaphone
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 3:08 pm
by Doug Elliott
Three Valves wrote:I must check out Doc Scantlin again.
Hey, I play with Doc Scantlin sometimes!
Re: Old dance orchestra with sousaphone
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 3:22 pm
by Three Valves
Doug Elliott wrote:Three Valves wrote:I must check out Doc Scantlin again.
Hey, I play with Doc Scantlin sometimes!
Cool!!
Me and Doc are beginning to show our age.
Something tells me he got a new Chou Chou. (Or two)
Is it true??
Re: Old dance orchestra with sousaphone
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 3:38 pm
by roweenie
Re: Old dance orchestra with sousaphone
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 5:35 pm
by Steve Marcus
bloke wrote:I played several one-nighters with the Ted Weems Band
The sound of the tuba/sousaphone in the Ted Weems Victor recordings from the late '20s and early '30s is very clear, with lots of presence. (Listen to Joe Marx' extremely clean digitalization of the 78s on YouTube.) Some of the tuba parts are quite juicy in these through-composed arrangements.
This is an important reason why I purchased my 48K. Built in 1930, the Jumbo sousaphones were designed primarily with the dance bands in mind.
I'd really enjoy more opportunities to play this music.
Re: Old dance orchestra with sousaphone
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 5:44 pm
by bisontuba
bloke wrote:I've done Guy Lombardo and Ted Weems.
I played several one-nighters with the Ted Weems Band, and a multi-week tour.
When they came back in town for another one-nighter a few months after the tour, I told them that I had to turn them down because the jobs were very strenuous (wall-to-wall playing w/no break) and not enough money. The bandleader asked how much I would be enough. I then added $100 on to what I had been paid, and he said, "I'll pay that" to which I responded "which is why I'm turning you down, because you could have been paying me that, but have not been.
The Guy Lombardo gig was a one-nighter out of town. (A bus picked a bunch of us up in a parking lot in Memphis, and we rode (very nice bus, fwiw) 2XX miles to play a gig in another city and sight-read the book for an honest-to-goodness "concert" (well..there were never any rehearsals for the Weems band either). When the gig was done, and (at least) I was exhausted, some richy-rich guy (who probably underwrote the concert) wanted us to come out to his house and stay yet two MORE hours (crappy hors d'oeuvres...or - as we refer to them down here - "horse divers") .
We all had to make up names, and pretend that we were originally from cities up north, etc....
You finally got to become a Yankee--congratulations!!!!
Re: Old dance orchestra with sousaphone
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 7:03 pm
by bisontuba
bloke wrote:bisontuba wrote:You finally got to become a Yankee--congratulations!!!!
Both of my parents were...but - once grown - were too smart to continue to be.
btw Mark, You would REALLY hate it in "the south". I would not only strongly encourage you to not move here, but also to never even consider a visit.
...It's just awful.
PS. It has been such a hot and humid Summer here in WNY, I feel like I live in the South...
Re: Old dance orchestra with sousaphone
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 7:35 pm
by bisontuba
bloke wrote:These February's down here (low's in the mid 30's / high's in mid-50's / YET: no mowing) are just insufferable.
Global warming should make us like the South soon enough...weather wise...
Re: Old dance orchestra with sousaphone
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2016 10:58 pm
by Art Hovey
Back to the original post: Have any of you listened to Vince Giordano lately?
Re: Old dance orchestra with sousaphone
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2016 11:54 pm
by The Big Ben
bisontuba wrote:bloke wrote:I've done Guy Lombardo and Ted Weems.
I played several one-nighters with the Ted Weems Band, and a multi-week tour.
When they came back in town for another one-nighter a few months after the tour, I told them that I had to turn them down because the jobs were very strenuous (wall-to-wall playing w/no break) and not enough money. The bandleader asked how much I would be enough. I then added $100 on to what I had been paid, and he said, "I'll pay that" to which I responded "which is why I'm turning you down, because you could have been paying me that, but have not been.
The Guy Lombardo gig was a one-nighter out of town. (A bus picked a bunch of us up in a parking lot in Memphis, and we rode (very nice bus, fwiw) 2XX miles to play a gig in another city and sight-read the book for an honest-to-goodness "concert" (well..there were never any rehearsals for the Weems band either). When the gig was done, and (at least) I was exhausted, some richy-rich guy (who probably underwrote the concert) wanted us to come out to his house and stay yet two MORE hours (crappy hors d'oeuvres...or - as we refer to them down here - "horse divers") .
We all had to make up names, and pretend that we were originally from cities up north, etc....
You finally got to become a Yankee--congratulations!!!!
No, no, no.. Since it *was* Lombardo, it makes Bloke a "Royal Canadian"!
