Someone (and I can't find it, so I can't say who), said something like, "You won't hear 'The Saints Go Marching In' in folk clubs very often."

Forty-three years ago, my Beautiful Wife and I spent our honeymoon in New Orleans, and of course we attended Preservation Hall to listen to one of the local bands. Audience members were permitted (nay, encouraged) to shout out requests. But there was a sign behind the band, with a listing of appropriate contribution rates for different kinds of requests:

Traditional jazz tunes,          $2.00
Non-traditional jazz tunes,   $5.00
The Saints...........................$50.00

Dave Oesterreich