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Song o' the Day-"Throwin' the Horns"
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New Orleans JAZZ NHP's Song o' the Day:
"Throwin’ the Horns"
Following yesterday’s tribute to physical activity, health and wholesomeness, today we’ll play “advocatus diaboli” and proffer an “hommage” to… (wait for it…)… National Beer Day! That’s right, according to Wikipedia, “National Beer Day is celebrated in the United States every year on April 7, marking the day that the Cullen–Harrison Act was enacted after having been signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt ... This led to the Eighteenth Amendment being repealed… with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. April 6, the day prior to National Beer Day, is known as New Beer's Eve.”
The song we’ve selected to celebrate this most suspicious of commemorations is the New Orleans Owls’ 1927 jazz favorite, “Throwin’ the Horns”. And, while you might automatically assume that those referenced “horns” would be made of brass and employed by our performers to produce these melodious measures, you’d be wrong! The horns discussed herein are more akin to those sported by bulls & bison or demons & insurrectionists. One Band Member is threatening to “put those horns on” the other if he “don’t stop messin’ round with” his girl. Of course, Musician #2 denies wanting anything to do with “that little hen” and threatens to respond in kind with his own “great big horns”.
From: A Chronology of New Orleans Jazz, Volume 1
Written by: Hilton Lamare & W. Bolman
Performed by: Arrowhead Jazz Band, featuring: Chris Tyle (vocals & cornet), Barry Martin (vocals & drums), Tom Fischer (clarinet), Freddy Lonzo (trombone), Lawrence Cotton (piano), Walter Payton (bass)
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Photo: New Belgium Brewing Co.
2003 Arrowhead Records/ photo: Diana Thornton, Crescent Music Svcs.