Jazz Archives Programs: Lu Watters’ Yerba Buena Jazz Band
These legendary broadcasts and interviews by Phil Elwood were first assembled and broadcast in 1957, and rebroadcast in 1966 with additions and commentary.
Rare interviews with Lu Watters and Bob Scobey, and 97 recordings including excerpts of the 1950 Hambone Kelly's KLX broadcast. Total length 4:45 approx.
Compiled by H. Duijmelink Special thanks to Frank Selman
Note on sound quality: Despite efforts to correct technical flaws, many unavoidable distortions, skips and gaps remain in these historic tapes.
Intro, 1966 Struttin’ with Some BBQ, 1946 Snake Rag, 1947 Annie Street Rock, 1946 INTERVIEW: LU WATTERS Shake That Thing [8:26], 1950 Yerba Buena Strut, 1946 INTERVIEW: LU WATTERS
Ory’s Creole Trombone, 1950 Some of These Days, 1950 INTERVIEW: LU WATTERS Original Dixieland One-Step, 1950 Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me, 1950 High Society, 1942 Maple Leaf Rag, 1946 Chattanooga Stomp, 1947 Muskrat Ramble, 1946 Oh, By Jingo, 1949 Sweethearts on Parade, 1950 Terrible Blues, 1950 Dusky Stevedore, 1950
Canal Street Bues, 1950 (Whorehouse Five) I Ain’t Got Nobody, 1950 (Whorehouse Five) Sunset Cafe Stomp, 1946 New Orleans Stomp, 1946 Weary Blues, 1950 (Don Kinch 1st trumpet) Skid-Dat-De-Dat, 1950 King Chanticleer, 1950 Big Butter and Egg Man, 1950 (clarinets: Darnell Howard and Bob Helm)
Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas, Clancy Hayes vocal, 1950 Richard M. Jones Blues, 1950 Irish Black Bottom, 1950 Jazz Me Blues, 1950 Doctor Jazz, 1950 Yellow Dog Blues, 1950
Sweethearts on Parade, 1950 Bill Bailey, 1950 Yerba Buena Strut, 1941 South, 1941 The Wise Old Owl, 1941 Tin Roof Blues, 1942 At the Jazz Band Ball, 1942 Grandpa’s Spells, Scobey/Murphy, 1946 A Good Man is Hard To Find, 1946, Scobey/Murphy, Turk Murphy vocal Heebie Jeebies, 1946, Scobey/Murphy Fidgety Feet, 1946, Scobey/Murphy Custom House Up and Down, 1946 Get it Right, 1946 Cakewalking Babies, 1950 Kansas City Man Blues, n.d. Scobey/Murphy band
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