[78-L] The Ames Brothers were Jewish!?

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Jan 29 09:13:02 PST 2009


I don't know about anyone else here, but I've always been under the impression 
that the Ames Brothers were part Cherokee. Their inclusion in "And You Shall 
Know Us By The Trail Of Our Vinyl" (which is wildly inaccurate on all sorts of 
matters) led me to a Google search, and to a number of biographical notes like 
this one:
http://www.singers.com/jazz/vintage/ames.html

It also says that they were known as the Amory Brothers at one time, which 
would mean that the sides that turn up on various Oberstein labels as Amory and 
Ames ARE by this group?

Discuss.

dl



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