FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO Yes Sir! That's My Baby (CD)

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(Bob's Music) 25 tracks I remember that very well: In a radio shop on Steindamm in Hamburg,... more

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FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO: Yes Sir! That's My Baby (CD)

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I remember that very well: In a radio shop on Steindamm in Hamburg, not far from the vocational school on Lammer-markt, there were long-playing records from abroad. That was around 1962, when I was an apprentice in my second year I got 60 Marks training allowance, a US LP cost 22 Marks. That was so much money that I could only afford to pay for it every three months. At that time I bought the Dixieland Favorites of the Firehouse Five plus Two.

I still have this disc today, it doesn't look very good anymore, but when I hear the Canal Street Blues, the old times come back to my mind. When I later worked for the Teldec, I came into contact with Lester Koenig and his jazz company. I found out that he was the main behind the record story of the Firehouse Five plus Two. When he realized that the band hit like a bomb in 1949, he founded Good Time Jazz Records. That hadn't happened for a long time: a Dixieland band with such a fresh, optimistic sound hadn't been heard for ages.

A few years before their record debut, at Walt Disney Studios in Hollywood, a group of artists, writers and technicians occasionally gathered at Ward Kimball's Ram to listen to jazz records. Those who could played always played along the record on their instrument. No idea to make a band out of it but one day the record player gave up his spirit and they continued playing without a record and that was the beginning. At first they only played for themselves, but gradually they became known, were asked to play at parties, gave small guest performances and played at dance events. The band was first called "The Hugageedy 8", then "The San Gabriel Valley Blue Blowers" until the third name fitted.

The five Walt Disney employees did their Dixieland on the side, they were amateurs in the best sense of the word. Their popularity took on proportions over the next few years that hardly anyone could have imagined before. Their records, at that time still 78s shellacs, sold in hit-suspicious orders of magnitude. That always creates the wish to continue, to have further success. But it also creates a great pressure of expectations that not everyone can cope with. In the fall of 1949 Johnny Lucas and Jim MacDonald left the band, far they came the trumpeter Danny Alguire and the drummer Monte Mount-joy, both professional musicians who had played everything but jazz. Kimball was the boss, played the trombone, sang and provided a good atmosphere, Clarke Mallery played clarinet, Frank Thomas piano, Harper Goff banjo and Ed Penner played bass saxophone and later tuba. On this CD you will hear most of the frieihen shellac records from the early years. Occasional record noises I ask generously to overhear. I hope you enjoy this happy music as much as I do.

With swinging greetings, your Robert Hertwig

Article properties: FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO: Yes Sir! That's My Baby (CD)

Interpret: FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
Album titlle: Yes Sir! That's My Baby (CD)
Year of publication 2004
Genre Jazz
Label BOB'S
Artikelart CD
EAN: 2500006000960
weight in Kg 0.1

Firehouse Five Plus Two - Yes Sir! That's My Baby (CD) CD 1
01	Firehouse Stomp	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
02	Everybody Loves My Baby	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
03	Pagan Love Song	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
04	San	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
05	Fireman's Lament	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
06	Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Meriverside Blues	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
07	Yes Sir! That's My Baby	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
08	Red Hot River Valley	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
09	Riverside Blues	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
10	Brass Bell	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
11	The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
12	Tiger Rag	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
13	Frankie & Johnny	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
14	Sweet Georgia Brown	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
15	Sobbin' Blues	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
16	Just A Stomp At Twiligt	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
17	Down Where The Sun Goes Down	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
18	St Louis Blue	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
19	12Th Street Rag	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
20	Copenhagen	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
21	Wabash Blues	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
22	Firechief Rag	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
23	Lonesome Mama Blues	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
24	Chinatown, My Chinatown	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO
25	Who Walks In When I Walk Out	FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO