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

[soundthink at aol.com]

Remember Ed Ames doing the tomahawk bit on the Tonight Show? This was set up because of his heritage. Of course everyone knows that Ames' aim wasn't that great, which led to two of Johnny Carson's most famous ad-libs: "I didn't even know you were Jewish" and "Welcome to another edition of 'Frontier Bris'."

Cary Ginell


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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: 78L <78-L at 78online.com>
Sent: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 9:13 am
Subject: [78-L] The Ames Brothers were Jewish!?



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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