Legends Mix

When you once belonged to the hottest and greatest of the Rhytm & Blues artists, it may sound a bit sad to spend the last 25 years of your career in a dixieland band entertaining the visitors of Disneyland in the French Quarter area. But with that, Jack McVea did much better than most of the Rhythm & Blues musicians who found out that everything had changed since Rock 'n Roll struck the nation. At least it was better than gathering scrap metal for a living, because that was what he had to rely on before the Disney corporation asked him.

And also today the advice to put the name Original in the name of your band, just in case fifty years later another band comes up with the same name.

Transcript

Playlist

Richard M. Jones - Jazzin' Babies Blues
Blanche Calloway & Her Band - You Ain't Living Right
Original Yellow Jackets - Blue Drag
Louis Armstrong - Basin St Blues
Victoria Spivey - How Do They Do It That Way (Take 2)
Sam Collins - Do That Thing
Hannah May & Bonny Thomas - Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat
Lil Johnson - When Your Troubles Are Like Mine
Memphis Minnie - I'd Rather See Him Dead
Peetie Wheatstraw - Doin' The Best I Can
Big Joe Turner - Radar Blues
Jack McVea - Lonesome Blues
Zilla Mays & John Peek - Triple Eight
Milt Trenier - Straighten Up Baby
Velvetones - It Just Ain't Right
Todd Rhodes - (Oo-Wee) Walkie Talkie
Harlan Leonard - Skee

Outtro:

Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce

The following music served as background music during the spoken parts:

Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
Carolina Cotton Pickers Orch - It's Our Business
Jack McVea - Blackout Boogie
Original Yellow Jackets - Cross Street Swing
Todd Rhodes - Chicken Strut