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Just my world of dreams, music and thoughts. Author of two books, one a novel of Love stories set in Framingham, Mass, Secrets of the Heart the 2nd book an autobiography of growing up in Framingham, Mass. Small Town America, Framingham My generation was the first teenage generation, that was when the word was coined. Ours was the generation that started cruising through town and to the drive in theater and drive in restaurant. In our area, Ernie Kampersal,from Holliston, drove his bucking car through town, picking up girls. It rose in the air, like a stallion! We went to the soda shops and played the juke boxes. It was a different town, a different time, and it belonged to us!

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Black Book-A Hundred Years From Today

Die fesche Lola - Carice Van Houten (Black book)

I loved this movie, I was wondering what language I was watching it in, I never realized I could change the language on my tv until I had seen the whole movie....then I watched it again in English, and loved it again.

Hugh Masekela - "Night in Tunisia".wmv

Louis Armstrong - "Skokiaan" (original 78)

1954 HITS ARCHIVE: Skokiaan - Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band (instrumental)

Skokiaan was a major hit, I would not have remembered it, except it just got my eye and the name rang a bell., so here it is

1954 HITS ARCHIVE: Hold My Hand - Don Cornell (from "Susan Slept Here")

Yes, it was another record worn out from constant play

1952 HITS ARCHIVE: I'm Yours - Don Cornell

Don Cornell was so wonderful, I wore out his records on my 45 player...

1952 HITS ARCHIVE: Walkin' My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray

 ime to listen to Johnny Ray...he had the hit on this song...

WALKIN' MY BABY BACK HOME by Jo Stafford

Jo Stafford - "For You"

Jo Stafford - Make Love To Me

Adrian Rollini Orchestra, Chick Bullock vocal - A Hundred Years From Tod...

bass sax...a great song, to bring back...

STORMY WEATHER by Billy Butterfield Recorded from Radio Transcription

 A well known sound of the past..

Fly Girls of WWII Exhibit

What a movie this would make, it's something that many young women today do not know about.

Serge Chaloff 1954- All I Do Is Dream of you, Storyville, Boots Mazzulli

from Storyville in Boston, and the sound of the Boots Mazzulli saxophone....

Boots Muzzulli must have been the one to bring Stan Kenton to Eddie Curran's road house in Framingham

Boots Muzzulli (they spell his name as Mussulli)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Henry "Boots" Muzzuli (November 18, 1915, Milford, Massachusetts – September 23, 1967, Norfolk, Massachusetts) was an Italian-American jazz saxophonist, based chiefly out of Boston.
According to the Social Security files, he was born in 1915, not in 1917 as previously stated.
Mussulli's first instrument was clarinet, which he first played at age 12. He played with Mal Hallett in Massachusetts around 1940, and joined Teddy Powell's group in 1943-44. He played with Stan Kenton from 1944 to 1947 and returned to play with Kenton again on tour in 1952 and 1954. He also played with Vido MussoGene Krupa (1948), Charlie Ventura (1949), Serge ChaloffToshiko Akiyoshi (1955), and Herb Pomeroy.
In 1949, Mussulli opened a jazz club in his hometown, called "The Crystal Room". From the mid-1950s, he concentrated more on music education, leading a local youth orchestra, the Milford Youth Band, at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1967. He died of cancer shortly thereafter.

Jazz in Framingham, Charlie Parker, Boots Mazzulli( from Milford), Byron Sculos and the Maridor...

This morning down at CJ's  in Nobscot we were discussing Framingham and I suddently recalled Eddie Curran's road house out on Rt 9 on the reservoir , there is a Chinese restaurant there now.  So, I thought I would look and see if there was anyone else that could recall this place.  Lo and behold, non other than Charlie Parker...!!  

After Eddie Curran closed Christy's, Byron Sculos started to take over with great jazz at the Maridor which lasted until I was a teen and longer. Byron also had all the muscicians to his house next door for jam sessions, after the Maridor closed.  Walgreens and Trader Joe, occupy the old Maridor site.  I was too young to attend any of these jazz sessions, but I did make it to Storyville.




On April 12, 1951…

Charlie Parker and friends were caught on tape at a jam session at Christy’s.
Eddie Curran ran a supper club on Route 9 in Framingham called Christy’s. Big jazz fan that he was, he liked nothing better than to invite the musicians in after closing time for a party a late-night blowing session. These jam sessions were the stuff of legend, with up-and-coming local guys playing until dawn alongside the leading lights of modern jazz.
There was a house band of sorts, led by alto saxophonist Boots Mussulli; pianist Dick Twardzik, drummer Roy Haynes, trumpeter Howard McGhee, and multi-instrumentalist Dick Wetmore were often on the bandstand. Trumpeters as diverse as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bobby Hackett all took their turns. Oscar Pettiford was there, and Gigi Gryce, and one night the whole Stan Kenton Orchestra showed up.
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