[78-L] Interview with Mr. & Mrs. Stan Freberg

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Feb 19 19:27:54 PST 2011


Interesting that this interview is all over the place as brand new, but one 
source puts the quote in 2009.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=29751

dl

On 2/19/2011 8:13 PM, Michael Shoshani wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 07:05 -0800, Cary Ginell wrote:
>> Never heard the "Grammy" story before. True?
>
> It sounds tall-tale-ish, something you pull out of your head for fun.
>
> Remember, Freberg's from a generation where you'd say something like
> that to a local reporter and it would create a chuckle in the local
> newspaper. Stuff like this didn't propagate with the speed and breadth
> that it does today...which is why Dizzy Dean, for example, used to give
> different hometowns and birthdates to different reporters, explaining
> that this way he gave them all a scoop.
>
> MS
>
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