[78-L] Delta Rhythm Boys/ Jan Johansson

[Michael Biel]

Kristjan Saag wrote:
> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>
>   
>> I recall from reading an obit for one of the DRBs (Lee,  the tall bass guy)
>> that two or three of them relocated to Sweden some time in the 1950s.
>>     
>
> Lee Gaines first lived in France, then in Finland, where he died in 1987. 
> One of the funeral guests was baritone Hugh Bryant, who had joined the group 
> in 1962. He had just started to sing "He Will Understand And Say Well Done" 
> from the organ loft, when he fell dead from a heart attack.
>   

I remember that.  It was being covered by TV and they showed on the news 
here in the U.S.  I might have it on videotape.  A similar thing happend 
to Lil Hardin Armstrong.  She was playing at some outdoor event in 
Chicago and keeled over at the piano dead.  I have audiotape of the TV 
news playbacks of it.   I wonder if the video is somewhere.  There also 
is audio of at least the commotion and announcement after Leonard Warren 
died during a performance at the Met. 

Any others?

Mike (sicko) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 


> A few of the later mambers (Walter Trammel and Ray Beatty) lived in Sweden 
> for some time.
> --
>
>   
>> I love their soundie ca. 1950 of "Undecided."  Very hip with a lot of
>> boppish touches.  Anybody know the piano player in it?  One of them calls
>> him "Sam."
>>     
>
> Delta Rhythm Boys vo, Sixten Eriksson tp, Fritz Fust as, Gösta Theselius ts, 
> Curt Blomquist bars, Charlie Norman p, Sven Stiberg g, Simon Brehm b, Henry 
> Wallin dr.
>
> Sep 4, 1952
>
> 375-A UNDECIDED Met B616, BLP32, MEP318
>
> Kristjan 
>
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