[78-L] Homage to Ethel Smith

[Kristjan Saag]

bill freytag wrote (about Edmundo Ros):
> IIRC...........Benny Hill called  him "...the leader one of the greatest Irish
> orchestras....Edmund O' Ross!", or something like that.
>
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Well, Benny was pretty close: Edmundo's father was of Scottish origin. 
And his one time pianist, Roberto Ingles, who later made a big career in 
South America, was, in fact, a pure Scotsman.
It's Louis Armstrong who was Irish:

All you heard for years in Ireland,
was the "Wearin' Of The Green",
but the biggest change that's come in Ireland
I have ever seen.
All the laddies and the cooies
laid aside their Irish reels,
and I was born in Ireland
(Ha, Ha), so imagine how I feels.
(Louis Armstrong: "Irish Black Bottom" 1926)
Kristjan





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