[78-L] Delta Rhythm Boys/ Jan Johansson

[joe@salerno.com]

Simon Barere had a heart attack and died while playing the Grieg 
Concerto with the Philadelphia O. I assume that performance was being 
recorded, but I have never encountered it anywhere if it exists.

joe salerno


Michael Biel wrote:
> 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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