[78-L] Introduction (a bit long)

[Dan Van Landingham]

Regarding the piano being shoved out the window,it was said that Red Nichols and BIx Be-
iderbecke were in the room and Bix said that the chord heard,when the piano hit the ground
the chord heard was "C".Apparently,Red Nichols made a five dollar bet because Venuti was
purported to have said something to the tune that he didn't know why Red Nichols would
opject because he got his five dollars back.Anecdote courtesy of Richard M. Sudhalter from
his 1973 book "Bix Man and Legend".

--- On Sat, 7/11/09, Jeff Lichtman <jeff at swazoo.com> wrote:


From: Jeff Lichtman <jeff at swazoo.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Introduction (a bit long)
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 10:34 PM



> From what I havew read on Joe Venuti,I wouldn't put it past him to 
> do something like that.
>I don't think it tops Venuti hiring 37 bass players who met at a 
>street intersection or him
>sawing away at Wingy Manonne's wooden prosthesis.

Or dumping a sack of flour in someone's tuba, or he and some drunken 
friends pushing a piano out a window on a bet about what chord it 
would make when it hit the ground.


                        -        Jeff Lichtman
                                 jeff at swazoo.com
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