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Show The selections were about evenly even-ly divided between old standards and new hits, with a sprjnkling or dying cowboys. While nobody reported Rain as tops, it was the one song on the most boxes. Nearly all had it. Piano Pi-ano Roll Blues was popular, too. Music like that at five cents a throw is a bargain in anybody's currency, even if you don't listen to it. Compared with the collector's set of Jelly Roll Morion's jazz piano pi-ano at $125.00 it's dirt cheap. Before ending this little comment com-ment I just want to recall that Jelly Roll Morton was one of the best jazz pianists of all time. What Arthur Rubinstein is the concert hall, Morton was the glittering joy palaces of New Orleans. He liked a bottle of whiskey within reach when playing. He was one of those odd, carefree devotees of jazz who could play it sweet or hot, along with the famous artists of the gob stick and the slip horn; who always al-ways hoped to but seldom ever made the big time; who sometimes struck it rich, as Jelly Roll did, but never saved a dollar. In his lush days he even sported gold and diamond studded garters, but when he died, in Los Angeles nine years ago, he left only the echoes of his jazz piano music. 1 Wingovers "ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT FROM THE DELTA AIRPORT" DICK MORRISON TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS . . . Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Smith, and Mr and Mrs. Lewis Buffington are anticipating blessed events sometime some-time this coming winter. With I he opening of the fishing season Saturday, Nate Ward took for Kanosh Creek. Grant Workman flew the sedan to Heber City on the 12th with his wife and two children as passengers. pas-sengers. Their children, Richard 4 and Barbara 5, are among Delta Airports youngest flying enthusiasts. enthusi-asts. On the 14th, Grant and Larry Mi-jares Mi-jares flew in to Ogden, taking Bill Tolman along as far as Sandy. Their elapsed time to Ogden was 85 min. E. E. Lucas is spending his vacation vac-ation in Arkansas. Frank Pace flew his Cessna to Spanish Fork June 11, with Pete Sampson as passenger. The flight was Pete's 2nd time up, and he said it was great; air was smooth except for a few places over the mountains. STUNTS . . . Bill Toman claims to have had more varied flying experience, possibly, pos-sibly, than any other pilot in Utah. Sunday Jie told me of several favorite fav-orite stunts he has performed during dur-ing two summers he spent in exhibition ex-hibition flying, barnstorming the country. These maneuvers may be OK for a guy like Bill who was born with a joy stick in his hand, but student pilots had better think twice before attempting them. He has done five turn spins from 100 ft., and he has landed by coming in over the end of a runway at 600 ft, then doing the "falling leaf" to lose altitude and get down to the runway. (The falling fal-ling leaf consists of swinging a plane back and forth in a series of stalls, from one side to the other.) Hes claims doing 15 consecutive loops from 1000 ft. in a Cub. Another thrilling stunt he claims is called the quarter clover leaf landing. In this he comes in on a short .base leg, fast, and instead of making the customary left turn pulls up, flips over in a "clover leaf" pattern, and lands. Then there is the trick of skimming skim-ming the runway, keeping his plane riding on any one of its wheels, or each alternately. I am struck by the difference between this and some of my own landings, land-ings, in which my plane may come down on any one of its three wheels, but without my having too much to say about which one will touch first. JUKE BOX REVIEW . . . Recognizing that not everybody, in fact hardly anybody, is interested inter-ested in the LP symphonic and operatic op-eratic records I reviewed last week I decided to find out exactly what kind of music people really like, and so it was that Saturday night I made the rounds, playing most of the juke boxes in town and asking questions. Starting on east Clark Street and working both sides of the street myself, I collected col-lected the following data for the Wingovers juke box survey, guaranteed guar-anteed as accurate as a gallop poll Bing Crosby's song, The Horse Told Me, seemed the smash hit at Sunrise Dairy; while the customers cus-tomers of Kent's Drive Inn went for something called Poco Loco In The Coco. Last Night On the Back Porch led the hit parade at Delta Bakery. A tune called Shackles & Chains, sung by Montana Slim, was on at the Gem Cafe, while Hatch's place leaned strongly toward the Andrews And-rews Sisters' rendition of Walk With A Wiggle. The Banque Club's customers seemed to like a sweet one, Roses, to listen to as they sipped beer and munched pickled weenies. Xavier Cugat's Jalousie was favorite favor-ite at Paces Pool Hall, though Frank said he hoped to get a record re-cord of the Admiral's Daughter soon. At Gordon's Billiards it was Irving Berlin's Always, seconded by Wedding Bells Will Never Ring for Me. Arv Rose told me his customers custom-ers like the Pistol Song, although his personal taste is for Doodle De There is no better guage of public pub-lic preference than what people buy in the free market with their own money, and musically, that's it. |
