[78-L] Died with their boots on [was Delta Rhythm Boys/ Jan Johansson]

[Julian Vein]

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 
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Henry Busse died 1955 at an undertaker's convention at the Peabody Hotel 
in Memphis, Tennessee while he was playing with the Shuffle Rhythm Band.

Tiny Parham died in a dressing room in Milwaukee during a show in 1943.

      Julian Vein