[78-L] Odd Man Out^

[eugene hayhoe]

I'd imagine that it might have been in the air - tunes like 1 O'Clock Jump, Blue Lou, Flyin' Home & bands like Hamp's could have been known in Belfast/Britain by then, but I wasn't around for a few years to come. 
 
Bands are often known to simplify what they can;t play properly.
 
Gene


--- On Fri, 12/25/09, Al Haug <westbankal at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Al Haug <westbankal at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Odd Man Out^
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Friday, December 25, 2009, 8:00 PM


They did in movies, apparently. For sure people like Joe Houston did
in the next decade. But not in Belfast. Maybe.

2009/12/25 Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>:
> Bit off topic. Recently watched the 1946 Carol ("The Third Man") Reed's
> "Odd Man Out", a film of unremitting gloom about about a wounded IRA man
> (James Mason) being pursued by the authorities in Belfast. It's all
> perfectly believable until Mason's girlfriend enters a dance hall ("No
> jitterbugging"!) where the band plays the same incessant, unvarying riff
> for about a minute. And, of course, there was jitterbugging. Presumably
> Reed had no idea about what went on in a dance hall or left it someone
> else to direct. Or did bands back then play like that?
>
>      Julian Vein
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