The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #11136   Message #81098
Posted By: Rick Fielding
24-May-99 - 12:50 AM
Thread Name: Your First Time. Be Honest.
Subject: RE: Your First Time. Be Honest.
Nancy. You just brought back a memory. My late Mum made her debut in 1930 playing her accordion in front of a large orchestra. It was, I believe she said at the Royal York Hotel here in Toronto. Very ritzy. Some kind of inaugural ball or something. She had given the band her sheet music to the song "Tiger Rag" which has three parts. Apparently through nervousness she started with the third part - "hold that tiger..Hold that tiger etc." The band, who probably would not have known a jazz song to save their lives, played the first part! She said it was a DISASTER!