Monday, June 2, 2025

Dixie's Land

 Gloria Parker in 1959


 

Dixie's Land

From the Gloria Parker's LP (issued as by Glory Kennedy and her 3 Electric Guitars) on Pathé Records titled Teenage Guitars Go Civil War. Probably from 1961.

Dixie's Land makes me think a lot of Train To Satanville by Gin Gillette  (Musikon, 1961).

Gloria Parker (née Rosenthal; 1921-2022) was an American musician and bandleader who had a radio show during the big band era. The Gloria Parker Show was broadcast nightly from 1950 to 1957, coast to coast on WABC. She played the marimba, organ, and singing glasses (glass harp). .....(wikipedia)

About Gloria and her fiancé, Barney Young, there is a good chapter in Revisiting Tin Pan Alley by Elizabeth York, "Barney and Gloria", published by the Music Library Association, Volume 73, Number 3, March 2017, pp. 473-501. See abstract here.
 

  

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