A little jaunt amongst the ghosts of Chicago nightlife...........

Just for fun....that sailor is my late Father-in-Law during the war.....

On the left, again my Late in-Laws (the spouse's parents)....late '40s

Lastly, my late Father-in-Law totally stylin' on the South Side in the late '40s.....he said that he used to get into restricted nightclubs to see bands by passing as Cuban....having known him, I'm not surprised >>shakes head<<

Hank Penny Part 1.........................

Hank Penny Part 1.............

Herbert Clayton Penny (September 18, 1918 in Birmingham, Alabama – April 17, 1992 in California of heart failure) was an accomplished banjo player and practitioner of western swing. He worked as a comedian best known for his backwoods character "That Plain Ol' Country Boy" on TV with Spade Cooley. He was married to country singer Sue Thompson from 1953-63.

Penny was the leader of the Radio Cowboys, which featured guitarist Julian Akins, steel guitarist Sammy Forsmark, tenor banjo player Louis Damont, bassist Carl Stewart, and vocalist, guitarist, and fiddler Sheldon Bennett in the 1930s. At WLW Radio in Cincinnati during World War II, Penny formed the Plantation Boys, which included fiddler Carl Stewart, guitarist/bassist Louis Innis, fiddler Zed Tennis, and lead guitarist Roy Lanham.

Penny had three hits on the Billboard Country Singles chart, "Steel Guitar Stomp" (1946) an instrumental featuring both Noel Boggs on steel guitar and guitarist Merle Travis, "Get Yourself a Red Head" (1946), and his own composition "Bloodshot Eyes" (1950). A lifelong fan of jazz, Penny recorded "Hillbilly Be-Bop" for King Records in 1949 and included jazz oriented sidemen in his band including guitarists Jimmy Wyble and Benny Garcia. For a time in 1950 singer Jaye P. Morgan was part of his larger band known as the Penny Serenaders.

Along with Amand Gautier, Penny co-founded the Palomino Club in Hollywood in 1949. The club was open seven days a week, and on Monday nights, after the closing time, it was "open stage" to some of the most famous jazz musicians in the country.

In 1952, Penny began hosting his own local Los Angeles series, The Hank Penny Show, which was canceled after only seven weeks.

By 1954, Penny had moved to Las Vegas, where he began a seven-year run as a performer at the Golden Nugget casino, fronting a band which included the likes of steel guitar virtuoso Curly Chalker and at the same time, Roy Clark, whose own comedy delivery was influenced considerably by Penny's onstage comic timing. Penny's band backed Clark on his first album for Capitol Records.

Penny made a 1970's appearance with Peggy Conner on America 2-Night playing a country husband-and-wife singing duo called Buck and Harriet Pine.

He is the father of actress Sydney Penny and his son, Greg Penny, has produced albums for Elton John and K.D. Lang.

Here's some tunes:

Alabama Jubilee (alt take)

Alabama Jubilee

All night and all day long

Army blues

Back up a little bit

Big fat papa

Black eyed Susie

Bloodshot eyes

Blue melody

Blue ridge blues

Boogie woogie now (alt take)

Catch 'em young, treat 'em rough, tell 'em nothing

Cheatin' on you, baby

Chill tonic

Cowboy's swing

Fan it (w/ Jay P. Morgan)

Flamin' Mamie

Flamin' Mamie 2

Get yourself a red head

Guess who took your place

Hot time Mama

Hawaiian honeymoon

Hesitation blues

Hillbilly be-bop (alt take)

Hillbilly be-bop

Hillbilly jump

Hope your satisfied

I don't love anybody but you

I told them all about you

I was satisfied

I'm counting the days

I'm gonna change things

I'm singing the blues

I've got the right key baby

Jersey bounce (take two)

Jersey bounce

Just a message

Just for old times sake

Just forget

Kentucky

The freckle song

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It's vintage Hawaiian music Po’alima!!

Ho'okomo! Grab a hot cup of Kona, sit back and enjoy...............This haole loves this music and hopes you do, too! :)

A nice little selection of real Hawaiian music for a Friday morning......smooth :)

Ali'ipoe-Dorothy Kalima with The "K" Sisters;

Ama Ama-Sam Alama

Black boy blues-King Nawahi

E Mama Ea-The Moes

Fort Street-Madame Riviere's Hawaiians

Hana chant-John Pi'ilani Watkins & The Hotel Hana Maui Choir

Hano Hano Hawaii-Waikiki Stonewall Boys

Hawaiian cowboy-Sol K. Bright's Hollywaiians

Hawaiian stormy weather-Master's Hawaiians

He Wahine U'i-Hilo's Kalima Brothers

Huehue-Sam Ku West

Hui E-Coral Islanders

Iko Okamuko-Frank Ferera & John Poaluki

Ka Wai O Namolokama-Jacob K. Maka with John K. Almeida

Kawahau-Hawaiian Silver Quartet

Kihei-Kai Davis with Julia Nui's Kama`ainas

Kohala March-Sol Hoopii

Kuu Lei-George Ku Trio

Leahi-Bill Lincoln Aliiloa & His Hawaiians

Lei E-Kalama's Quartet

Lei Puakenikeni-Joe Keawe

Maile Swing-Genoa Keawe with John K. Almeida

Maui-Palakiko & Paaluhi

Nee Nee Mai E Pili-George Pokini's Hawaiians

Paolo-Charlie Wilson

Parari'i Pararara'i-Tamari Tahiti

Piukeona-John Pi'ilani Watkins

Pololei 'oia'i'o-John K. Alameida with Genoa Keawe's Hula Maids

Slack key hula-George Keoki Davis

Sweet Leilani-Julia Nui's Kama'ainas & John K. Almeida

Ticklin' the strings-Mena Moeria Minstrels

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Morning OTR Billy Jack Wills Show on KFBK.............excellent!!

Ass Kickin' goodness! This is a goooood one, today..............Sacramento, CA......KFBK. A short, but hot little broadcast of The Billy Jack Wills Band......ENJOY!

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Hank Penny was a hilarious comedian, too.........this is fun! :)

In advance of the Hank Penny list (for those of you who only think of this as a Wynonie Harris song)!!

The A to Z of Django Reinhardt.....1928-1953 Part 1

Let's dispense with the formalities and get to the music......today starts an A to Z list, not a chronological one.....all the recordings, as sideman, solo, with bands, interviews, and on radio.....1928-1953....here we go:

Part 1-"A"

A-Tisket A-tasket-DJANGO REINHARDT & LE QUINTETTE DU HOT CLUB DE FRANCE
(Rome Sessions - 1950)

ABC-DJANGO REINHARDT & SON ORCHESTRE (FUD CANDRIX & SON ORCHESTRES) 1943

After you've gone 2-QUINTETTE DU HOT CLUB DE FRANCE 1936

After you've gone 3-ROME SESSIONS (1949)

After you've gone-TRIO DJANGO REINHARDT 1934

Ah! La Biguine-L’ORCHESTRE DU THEATRE DAUNOU 1933

Ain't misbehavin'-QUINTETTE DU HOT CLUB DE FRANCE 1936

Ainsi Soit-Il -NANE CHOLET1935

Ainsi Soit-Il-NANE CHOLET, ACC. PAR STEPHANE GRAPPELLY ET DJANGO REINHARDT 1936

Air mail special-DJANGO REINHARDT & L'ORCHESTRE D'HUBERT FOL AU CLUB SAINT-GERMAIN (Radio 1951)

Alabamy bound-STEPHANE GRAPPELLY AVEC DJANGO REINHARDT 1937

All of me-QUINTETTE DU HOT CLUB DE FRANCE AVEC ALIX COMBELLE 1940

All the things you are-DJANGO REINHARDT & STEPHANE GRAPPELLI A ROME (RADIO SESSIONS - 1948)

Amour de Gitane-ORCH. MUSETTE JEAN VAISSADE 1928

Anniversary song 2-DJANGO REINHARDT & LE QUINTETTE DU HOT CLUB DE FRANCE (Rome Sessions - 1950)

Anniversary song-DJANGO REINHARDT & LE QUINTETTE DU HOT CLUB DE FRANCE (Blue Star Sessions - 1947)

Annonce and Nuages (intro)-DJANGO REINHARDT & SON ORCHESTRE A CORDES (Radio - 1951)

Annonce and Time after time-DJANGO REINHARDT avec TONY PROTEAU & SON ORCHESTRE AU "REX" (radio) 1953

Annonce et Troublant Boléro (Version II)-DJANGO REINHARDT & SON ORCHESTRE A CORDES (Radio - 1951)

Annonce et Yesterdays-DJANGO REINHARDT AVEC AIME BARELLI & SON ORCHESTRE AU "REX" (Radio - 1952)

Annonce -Night and Day-Desannonce-“THIS PARIS” (MAURICE CHEVALIER RADIO SHOW - 1949)

Anouman-DJANGO REINHARDT & SON QUINTETTE (Session Decca) 1953

Anything goes-PATRICK & SON ORCHESTRE 1935

Appel direct (Appel indirect)-QUINTETTE DU HOT CLUB DE FRANCE (1938)

Appel indirect-DJANGO REINHARDT ET L’ORCHESTRE DE CHEZ “JIMMY” (radio) 1940

Apple honey-DJANGO REINHARDT & THE ATC BAND 1946

Are you in the mood 2-QUINTETTE DU HOT CLUB DE FRANCE 1936

Are you in the mood 3-DJANGO REINHARDT & THE ATC BAND 1946

Are you in the mood-DJANGO REINHARDT & HIS AMERICAN SWING BAND 1945

Artillerie Lourde 2-DJANGO REINHARDT ET LE QUINTETTE DU HOT CLUB DE FRANCE
(Rome Sessions - Radio- 1950)

Artillerie Lourde 3-DJANGO’S MUSIC 1944

Artillerie Lourde 4-ROME SESSIONS (1949)

Artillerie Lourde-DJANGO REINHARDT & LE QUINTETTE DU HOT CLUB DE FRANCE (RADIO SESSIONS - 1947)

At the Jimmy's Bar-DJANGO’S MUSIC 1940

Au Grand Large-YVONNE LOUIS AVEC ACCOMPAGNEMENT D’ORCHESTRE 1936

Au pays de l'Hindoustan-MARCEAU ACCORDEONISTE VIRTUOSE 1928

Aubade charmeuse-ORCH. MUSETTE JEAN VAISSADE 1928

Avalon- DJANGO REINHARDT & LE QUINTETTE DU HOT CLUB DE FRANCE, AVEC ARTHUR BRIGGS & STÉPHANE GRAPELLY 1935

Avalon- COLEMAN HAWKINS, ACC. PAR MICHEL WARLOP ET SON ORCHESTRE, AVEC ARTHUR BRIGGS 1935

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Feedback? seemed an interesting, slightly different way  to do this, as opposed to a chronological list.....I like hearing all the different versions of specific songs over the years.....

2 OTRs for the afternoon......AFRS Melody Roundup.....great stuff

2 great ones!

AFRS Melody Roundup.....The Hank Penny Show, w/ Red Harper announcing,  Speedy West,  and Mary Morgan.

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Show #2....Hank Penny, w/ Speedy West, Hank Cardwell, and Billy Hill.

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Jack McVea...........

Jack McVea

Jack McVea (November 5, 1914 – December 27, 2000) was an American swing, blues, and rhythm and blues woodwind player; he played clarinet and tenor and baritone saxophone. His father was the noted banjoist Satchel McVea, and banjo was Jack McVea's first instrument.

Born John Vivian McVea in Los Angeles, California, and playing jazz in Los Angeles for several years, he joined Lionel Hampton's orchestra in 1940. From 1944 on he mostly worked as a leader. Perhaps his most impressive performance as a sideman in those years was at the first Jazz at the Philharmonic concert in 1944. From 1966 till his retirement in the 1980s he led a group which played traditional jazz at Disneyland, called "The Royal Street Bachelors" in New Orleans Square.

McVea was leader of the Black & White Records studio band and was responsible for coming up with the musical riff for the words "Open the Door, Richard". Ralph Bass got him to record it in 1946 and it became immensely popular, entering the national charts the following year, and was recorded by many other artists.

He is also known for his playing on T-Bone Walker's "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)." McVea also played on 1945's "Slim's Jam" by Slim Gaillard alongside Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.

McVea died in December 2000, at the age of 86.

OBITUARY

NY TIMES         Jack McVea, Bandleader With a Noteworthy Novelty Hit, Dies at 86 By BEN RATLIFF Jack McVea, a tenor saxophonist and bandleader who was a writer of the 1947 novelty hit "Open the Door, Richard," died on Dec. 27 in Los Angeles. He was 86. Mr. McVea started out playing ukulele in a band led by his father, the banjoist Isaac (Satchel) McVea, who was the first black radio host in Los Angeles, with an early-1920's show on KNX called "The Optimistic Doughnut." Jack McVea graduated from Jefferson High School in Los Angeles, which at the time was producing a number of important jazz musicians, including Dexter Gordon, Melba Liston and Ernie Royal. He worked in the house band at the Club Alabam on Central Avenue in Los Angeles, where jazz sizzled in the 1940's, played with Eddie Barefield's big band, and by 1940 had begun a three-year stint with Lionel Hampton as a baritone saxophonist. In 1944 he took part in the first presentation of Jazz at the Philharmonic, the popular touring revue produced by the impresario Norman Granz. Mr. McVea's place in the history of American music was determined largely by two events, one popular and one obscure. One was his role in creating "Open the Door, Richard," a song based on a comedy routine by the entertainers Dusty Fletcher and John Mason, who performed it in black theaters in the 1930's. Mr. McVea, along with Fletcher, Mason and Dan Howell, changed the words of the routine to eliminate racial stereotyping and set them to a rhythm-and-blues melody. Mr. McVea had the first hit version of the song in 1947. Other recordings followed almost immediately: by Fletcher, by Count Basie and finally by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five. The success of the song ensured Mr. McVea work with his band around the country for the next several years, after which he became a sideman for hire, working briefly for MGM and leading a band in Las Vegas. The other milestone in his career was his participation in a slight but memorable studio jam-session track, "Slim's Jam," recorded with Slim Gaillard and Charlie Parker, when Parker was playing on the West Coast in 1945. In the record's jokey routine — released under Gaillard's name on the small Bel-Tone label but reissued regularly since because of the evergreen interest in Parker — Gaillard, with his loopy sense of humor, introduced Mr. McVea as "Jack MacVouty," and Mr. McVea proceeded to play a sweet, economical and archetypal rhythm-and-blues solo. In 1966 he started working at Disneyland, hired by Walt Disney himself, playing clarinet with the Royal Street Bachelors band in the theme park's New Orleans Square. He kept the job for 27 years, retiring in 1992. Mr. McVea is survived by two daughters, Lyta McVea-Abdullah of Los Angeles and Jacqueline Grant of Rolling Hills, Calif.; a son, Robert L. McVea of Hawthorne, Calif.; 10 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.

Here's a few tunes...........

Baby look at you-Wynonie Harris w/ Jack McVea
Baby make up your mine- JMcV and his All Stars
Bartender boogie- JMcV and his All Stars
Blues with a feeling-Rabon Tarrant w/ JMcV and his All Stars
Butch- JMcV and his All Stars
Carlos- JMcV and his All Stars
Chop chop boom- JMcV and his All Stars
Crows being evicted-Jack McVea and his Door Openers
Dirty money blues-Rabon Tarrant w/ JMcV and his All Stars
Don't blame me- JMcV and his All Stars
Don't let the sun catch you crying- JMcV and his All Stars
Evening- JMcV and his All Stars
F Minor boogie- JMcV and his All Stars
Fiddlesticks-JMcV Orch
Fish for supper- JMcV and his All Stars
Groovin' boogie- JMcV and his All Stars
Inflation blues- JMcV and his All Stars
It never should have been this way- JMcV and his All Stars
Jack Frost- JMcV and his All Stars
Jack's boogie- JMcV and his All Stars
Mumblin' blues- JMcV and his All Stars
My business is COD- JMcV and his All Stars
My Grandfather-JMcV Orch.
Naggin' woman blues- JMcV and his All Stars
New Deal- JMcV and his All Stars
No worry blues-JMcV Orch.
No, no you can't do dat Mon- JMcV and his All Stars
O-kay for baby- JMcV and his All Stars
Oh, how I miss you tonight-JmcV and his Orch.
Ooh Mop- JMcV and his All Stars
Open the door Richard- JMcV and his All Stars
Play it over- JMcV and his All Stars
Rainy day blues 1-Rabon Tarrant and Jack McVea
Rainy day blues 2- JMcV and his All Stars
The crows boogie-JMcV Orch.
The key's in the mailbox- JMcV and his All Stars

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Don't bruise the feeling-JMcV and his Orch
'Frisco blues-JMcV and his All Stars
Gaucho Hop-JMcV and his Orch
Hoo Doo you baby-JMcV and his Orch
Let's ride, ride, ride-The Savoys, Jack McVea & His Orchestra & Louise Beatty
Nobody in town can bake a sweet jelly roll like mine-JMcV and his Orch
On the sunny side of the street-JMcV and his Orch
Opus boogie-JMcV Orch.
She's gone with the wind-Wynonie Harris and JMcV and His All Stars
Somebody changed the lock on my heart-Wynonie Harris and JMcV and His All Stars
Tarrant blues-JMcV and His All Stars
Tatoe pie-JMcV and His All Stars
Tequila Hop-JMcV Orch
Trying to tell ya-JMcV and His All Stars
Two timin' baby boogie-JMcV and His All Stars
Ube Dubie-JMcV and his Orch.
We're together again-JMcV and His All Stars
Wine-O 1-JMcV
Wine-O 2-JMcV and His All Stars
Wynonie's blues-Wynonie Harris and JMcV and His All Stars
You brought me heartaches-JMcV and his Orch.
You can come back home-JMcV and His All Stars



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