(Playing "In the Mood") (Playing "In the Mood") THE YEAR IS 1940 LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY WITH A POPULATION APPROACHING 50,000 IS A TOWN WHERE TRADITION HAS ALWAYS BEEN TREASURED AND CHANGE HAS ALWAYS COME SLOWLY WARS RAGING IN EUROPE AND ASIA ARE STILL OCEANS AWAY BUT SOON THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE DIFFERENT IN WAYS NOT YET IMAGINED LEXINGTON LIKE THE REST OF AMERICA HAS COME THROUGH THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930s AND NOW RELISHES ITS HARD WON PROSPERITY ELECTRIC TROLLEYS AND AUTOMOBILES FILL THE STREETS DAY AND NIGHT PEOPLE ONCE AGAIN HAVE MONEY TO SPEND AND MAIN STREET IS THE PLACE TO SHOP IN LEXINGTON AND WHEN FOLKS NEED A BREAK FROM SHOPPING THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS WHERE THE LOCALS GATHER TO EAT AND TO SOCIALIZE AND LISTEN, THAT WAS... THAT'S WAS THE THING THAT MADE LEXINGTON UH, SO VERY DIFFERENT IN THOSE DAYS IS THAT ABSOLUTELY EVERYBODY KNEW EVERYBODY (Music playing) AFTER YOU CROSS THE VIADUCT AND HERE'S THE CEMETERY ON WEST MAIN THAT WAS THE CITY LIMIT RIGHT THERE AND GOING UH, EAST, IT WAS UH JUST AS YOU GOT TO HENRY CLAY'S ESTATE FONTAINE ROAD THAT WAS THE END OF LEXINGTON FONTAINE WAS A BLIND STREET THEN THERE WAS NO CHINOE ROAD NO NEW CIRCLE ROAD THAT WAS THE END, WE HAD COWS OVER THE FENCE FARM YEAH, DOWNTOWN WAS... WELL, IT WAS THE PLACE TO BE BECAUSE THERE WERE NO MALLS OR ANYTHING, ACTUALLY IT WAS BOUNDED BY ABOUT LOUDON AVENUE AND UH, JEES... SIXTH, SEVENTH STREET OR SOMETHING OUT THERE... LITTLE I MEAN THERE WASN'T NO NEW CIRCLE ROAD AS FAR AS OUT... SOUTHLAND THAT WAS A FOREIGN LAND TO ME MOST OF IT WAS COUNTRY EVERYBODY KIND OF KNEW EVERYBODY AROUND HERE AND YOU'D GO DOWN MAIN STREET AND SEE PEOPLE YOU KNEW AND IT WAS A GOOD PLACE TO BE (Music playing) YOU CAME ON DOWN AND I DON'T KNOW THEN YOU HAD THE PHOENIX BUT THERE WAS AN ALLEY WENT BACK HERE LIKE THIS AND RIGHT BACK THERE RIGHT BEHIND THAT WAS THE CANARY COTTAGE Moosnick: I CAN REMEMBER MY MOTHER TAKING ME THERE TO LUNCH AND WITH THE WHITE GLOVES AND THE ALL DRESSED UP YOU KNOW, IN MY VERY BEST, YOU KNOW VERY BEST SUNDAY-GO-TO-MEETING CLOTHES AND UH, WELL I CAN REMEMBER EGG SALAD (Laughing) AND WONDERFUL LITTLE COTTAGE CURTAINS ON THE WINDOWS AND EVERYBODY KNOWING EVERYBODY WHO WAS THERE Moore: THEY PUT EVERYTHING ON IN HIGH STYLE YOU KNOW, AND EVERYBODY... DINE OUT AT THE CANARY COTTAGE THAT WAS THE PLACE IT WAS EVEN BETTER THAN GOING TO ONE OF THE HOTELS Gabbert: IT WAS A WONDERFUL PLACE THAT YOU WALKED IN AND THEY HAD WOODEN BOOTHS ON LEFT AND RIGHT AND YOU COULD GO IN THERE AND HAVE THE BEST MALTED MILKSHAKES AND ICE CREAM SUNDAES AND SANDWICHES AND THEN YOU WENT INTO A, A LARGE DINING ROOM AND THEY HAD A REGULAR MENU WITH MEATS AND VEGETABLES AND SALADS AND DESSERT HOMEMADE BREADS AND THEN YOU'D TURN TO THE RIGHT GO BACK TO A CORNER ROOM AND THAT WAS THE BAR SO THAT WAS THE GATHERING PLACE FOR A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE THERE WAS A DOOR BACK THERE YOU COULD GO OUT THERE AND COME OUT THROUGH THE ALLEY BETWEEN THE PHOENIX HOTEL Wiedemann: THE PHOENIX WAS...

IT HAD A CHEF NAMED CHEF EDIE AND IT HAD SOME OF THE BEST FOOD AND THEN YOU USUALLY HAD A LITTLE UH, ORCHESTRA FOR THE EVENING MEAL YOU KNOW, A STRING FOUR... QUARTET, STRING QUARTET AND UH, IT, IT WAS KIND OF ELEGANT, BUT THE HOTEL THAT SURPASSED THAT LATER ON WAS THE LAFAYETTE, WHERE THE BUILDING IS NOW HOUSING YOU KNOW, CITY GOVERNMENT AND IT, IT WAS, IT WAS FINE AND EVERYBODY USED TO BRAG ABOUT THAT DINING ROOM THERE WE KNEW EVERYBODY WE KNEW NEARLY EVERYBODY WE WENT TO SCHOOL WITH PEOPLE THAT WORKED DOWNTOWN THEY KNEW WHO YOUR MOTHER WAS, YOU KNOW THERE WAS A LOT HAPPENING IT MAY NOT HAVE UH PEOPLE MAY NOT HAVE FELT THERE WAS BUT THERE WAS, A LOT GOING ON AND, AND PEOPLE WERE SO MUCH MORE FRIENDLY AND THEY FELT SO MUCH BETTER AND UH, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE GLAD TO SEE EACH OTHER WHEN WE WENT TO SOME PLACE UH, AND UH, WITH THE TOWN BEING AS SMALL AS IT WAS YOU KNOW, WE KNEW EVERYBODY (Music playing) ON MAIN STREET YOU CAN FIND EVERYTHING FROM FIVE-AND-DIME STORES TO FURRIERS CANDY SHOPS TO CAR DEALERS MAIN STREET IS A PLACE TO SEE AND TO BE SEEN YOU WENT DOWNTOWN TO SHOP AND HAVE LUNCH ALL DRESSED UP YOU KNOW, WITH THE WHITE GLOVES AND THE PUT-TOGETHER OUTFIT Gabbert: ALL THE LADIES HAD... WOULD NOT GO DOWNTOWN WITHOUT THEIR WHITE GLOVES AND THEIR HATS ON YOU KNOW, HOSE AND PUMPS AND DRESSED UP SO MANY OF THEM HAS THOSE UH, FUR UH, LOOKED LIKE A FOX THAT THEY'D PINCH ON, THEY HAD THAT AROUND THEIR NECK ALWAYS DRESSED UP, I MEAN SOMEBODY EVEN TOLD ME ONE TIME IF YOU WERE CAUGHT ON MAIN STREET IN A PAIR OF SHORTS, YOU'D PROBABLY GET ARRESTED (Music playing) Moosnick: SHOPPING WAS A BIG DEAL DOWNTOWN THERE WASN'T ANYTHING ELSE DOWNTOWN WAS IT AND MY MOTHER AND I WOULD WALK DOWN THE STREET AND WE'D GO TO THE PERKINS AND MITCHELL BAKER'S AND WENNEKERS AND THE STRAND THEATER WAS THERE AND BEN ALI THEATER WAS THERE AND THERE WAS A PLACE THERE THEY BLOCKED HATS AND SHINED SHOES AND SO FROM, PROBABLY WOLFE WILE'S ON EAST MAIN WENDING YOUR WAY ACROSS BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET ALL THE WAY DOWN TO PURCELL'S ON WEST MAIN JUST BEFORE BROADWAY AND MEYERS, OF COURSE I DIDN'T GET TO SHOP AT MEYERS UNTIL I BECAME A NEWSPAPER REPORTER AND HAD SOME MONEY OF MY OWN AND COULD GO, YOU KNOW, SHOP AT THE... MORE UPSCALE PLACES (Music playing) AND WE'D CROSS THE STREET AND THERE WAS SLEEPYHEAD HOUSE PURCELL'S, GREAT BIG DEPARTMENT STORE THAT'S WHERE WE'D GO TO DO A LOT OF SHOPPING AND OF COURSE EMBRY'S FOR, FOREVER BUT I DIDN'T GET TO SHOP AT EMBRY'S EITHER Gabbert: MEYERS WAS LOCATED IN A COUPLE OF PLACES ON MAIN STREET IT WAS DOWN ON WEST MAIN STREET AT ONE POINT AND YOU'D COME ON UP AND YOU'D GO TO MITCHELL BAKER'S, I BELIEVE IT WAS AND WE WOULD STOP AT McADAMS AND MORFORD AND HAVE A SANDWICH AND SOMETHING TO DRINK IT WAS ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE THAT YOU GET YOUR SHOES AND YOUR BAGS AT WENNEKER BECAUSE THEY HAD THE MATCHING SETS AND UH, IT WAS UH IT WAS EITHER WOLFE WILE'S OR PURCELL'S OR OR UH, LERNER'S MAYBE, OR MITCHELL BAKER SMITH MORE THE, THE DEPARTMENT, THE KIND OF DEPARTMENT STORES THAT HAD THE UH, AFFORDABLE FORMALS AND THE AFFORDABLE BEST UH YOU KNOW, HOLIDAY OUTFITS AND THAT KIND OF THING AND UH, YOU JUST HAD TO MAKE THEM ALL BECAUSE YOU HAD TO FIND JUST EXACTLY THE RIGHT THING (Music playing) (Music playing) IN DECEMBER, 1941 AMERICA ENTERS THE WAR GOODS RANGING FROM MEAT, SUGAR AND COFFEE TO TYPEWRITERS, GASOLINE AND AUTOMOBILES ARE ALL IN SHORT SUPPLY SOON RATIONING IS A PART OF EVERYONE'S LIFE DESPITE THE SHORTAGES DOWNTOWN LEXINGTON PROSPERS MANY PEOPLE SEEM TO FEEL A NEED TO GET OUT SEE ONE ANOTHER AND HAVE A GOOD TIME Gabbert: WE'D START UP AT UH, EAST END OF MAIN STREET COME DOWN ON THE BUS AND GET OFF AT THE CORNER OF WALNUT AVENUE THERE WAS A POST OFFICE WAS ON THE CORNER AND A DRUGSTORE AND A POLICEMAN WOULD HELP US ACROSS THE STREET HIS NAME WAS MR. FINNEY YOUR BEST BARBERSHOP WAS DOWN IN THE BASEMENT OF BOTH, BOTH HOTELS, THEY HAD TOP BARBERSHOPS AND AND UH, FOUR OR FIVE BARBERS GOING FULL TIME ALL THE TIME DEWEESE STREET WAS THE MAIN STREET IN LEXINGTON SEE AT THE END OF DEWEESE STREET THEY BUILT THE LYRIC THEATER NOW ON THE OTHER END OF DEWEESE STREET THERE WAS THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH NOW THE LYRIC THEATER WAS A GATHERING PLACE BECAUSE THEY'D BRING IN THESE BIG NAME FOLK FOR A DOLLAR BACK IN THOSE DAYS (Music playing) BUT FOR ALL ITS SMALL TOWN CHARM LEXINGTON IS NOT WITHOUT ITS LESS SAVORY SIDE YOU JUST HAVE TO KNOW WHERE TO LOOK (Music playing) IN THOSE DAYS, I WASN'T OLD ENOUGH TO REALLY EXPERIENCE A LOT OF IT, BUT I DID HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND OF MINE WHO TOOK ME ALONG WITH HIM WHEN HE RAN...

BETS FOR ED CURD UPSTAIRS, IN THE MAYFAIR BAR, YOU KNOW YOU'D GO UP TO THE MAYFAIR BAR AND THERE WAS THERE WAS NOTHING BUT SWEATY PEOPLE AND AND TELEPHONES RINGING ALL THE TIME AND CHALKBOARD AND, AND HE'D GET UH, SOME, SOME... WHATEVER HE GOT, A PACKAGE AND RUN IT TO SOMEPLACE ELSE UH, IT WAS WILD I HAD A BOOKIE THAT LIVED NEXT DOOR TO ME JUST CRAZY ABOUT HIM AND HIS OFFICE WAS DOWN "UPSTAIRS OVER THE BEN ALI THEATER" BUT UH, THEY, THERE WERE BOOKIES ALL OVER THE PLACE EVERYBODY KNEW THEY WERE THERE AND THEN ACTED LIKE THEY DIDN'T THE PHOENIX HOTEL HAD A POOL ROOM THAT WAS JUST NOTHING BUT DARK POOLS OF LIGHT AND ALL THE HUSTLERS WERE AROUND THERE BUT POP GRUNER HAD A, HAD A BAR DOWN THERE AND OH, THE BOYS LOVED TO GO DOWN THERE AND DRINK THAT BEER AND THE GIRLS WOULD SIT IN THE CAR AND THEY'D GO DOWN AND THEY'D GET THE BEER AND EVERYTHING THE WORLD AROUND THEM IS CHANGING MORE RAPIDLY THAN ANYONE MIGHT EVER HAVE IMAGINED Moore: LEXINGTON WAS FLOURISHING, YOU HAD, UH BEAUTIFUL, OH, BOY, BEAUTIFUL OLD UH, RAILWAY STATION DOWNTOWN IT WAS BUILT ON SORT OF A GRAND SCALE TALL PILLARS AND MARBLE YOU COULD HEAR ECHOES BECAUSE IT HAD A HIGH VAULTED ROOF BUT IT WAS ALWAYS EXCITING AND YOU ALWAYS FELT THAT PEOPLE GOING AND COMING FROM THERE WERE GOING OFF TO SEE THE WHOLE WORLD AND THEY WERE COMING BACK WITH WITH ALL THE, THE WORLDLY NEWS AND, AND, AND UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THINGS WERE LIKE ALL OVER EVERYWHERE (Music playing) Romanowitz: PEOPLE PEOPLE EVERYWHERE THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE THE MUSICIANS' HANGOUT WAS THE CORNER OF MAIN...

IT WAS THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF MAIN AND LIMESTONE A PLACE CALLED WILLIAM'S DRUGSTORE I REMEMBER MY MOTHER...

GOING IN THERE ONE TIME TO BUY, UH, BUY SOMETHING AT THE COUNTER AND TURNING AROUND SHE LOOKED RIGHT SQUARE INTO THE BELT BUCKLE OF BILL SPIVEY WHO THEY HAD HIRED TO CLEAN LIGHT FIXTURES BILL SPIVEY WAS A SEVEN-FOOT TALL BASKETBALL PLAYER FOR UK AND IT WAS, IT WAS THE PLACE THE MUSICIANS' HUNG OUT AND THE ATHLETES DID AND EVERYTHING CENTER OF, OF OUR UNIVERSE IN DOWNTOWN ANY WAY (Music playing) A POPULAR NEW KIND OF MUSIC SWING MUSIC HAS SWEPT THE COUNTRY AND NO DOUBT ABOUT IT BY THE EARLY '40s SWING IS KING IN THE BLUEGRASS LEXINGTON BECOMES A POPULAR STOPOVER FOR THE BIGGEST NAMES IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS BIG BANDS BOOKED ONE OR TWO NIGHTS IN LEXINGTON BETWEEN GIGS IN CHICAGO AND ATLANTA CINCINNATI AND ST. LOUIS MUSIC LEGENDS OF THE ERA, INCLUDING COUNT BASIE DUKE ELLINGTON WOODY HERMAN AND THE INCOMPARABLE LOUIS ARMSTRONG ALL PLAY IN LEXINGTON ON A REGULAR BASIS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR NIGHT SPOTS IN LEXINGTON IS THE PHOENIX HOTEL KNOWN AS POSTLEWAIT'S TAVERN WHEN IT OPENED IN 1796 THE NAME WAS CHANGED TO THE PHOENIX WHEN THE HOTEL WAS REBUILT FOLLOWING AN 1820 FIRE IT BURNED TO THE GROUND AGAIN IN 1879 BUT THE PHOENIX, LIKE HER NAMESAKE ONCE AGAIN ROSE FROM THE ASHES AT 100 EAST MAIN STREET Gabbert: COURSE THE PHOENIX HOTEL, WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME EITHER GOING TO PARTIES OR EATING LUNCH OR DINNER OR HAVING DANCES AT THE PHOENIX Lynn Molloy: AND AT CHRISTMASTIME THERE WERE AT LEAST SIX OR SEVEN DANCES JUST NIGHT AFTER NIGHT AND THEY WOULD BE AT THE PHOENIX OR AT THE LAFAYETTE AND YOU KNOW, YOU YOU HAD NO BREAK CARDS AND, AND YOUR DATE UH, HAD TO BRING YOU A FLOWER AND UH, IT WAS REALLY NICE AND ALL THE CLUBS WOULD DECORATE THE BALLROOM BEAUTIFULLY THE MERRYMEN, THE PIPER'S OF PAN, THE APPLE PIES AND VARIOUS CLUBS AND THEY'D WORK ALL YEAR HAVING RUMMAGE SALES TO GET ENOUGH MONEY TO HAVE THESE DANCES AND WE'D HIRE BANDS AND IT WAS UP ON, IN THE PHOENIX UP ON THE SECOND FLOOR AND BEAUTIFUL BALLROOM AND THE BAND WOULD PLAY UP AT THE END AND WE WOULD DANCE AND DANCE AND DANCE AND WE HAD "NO BREAKS" YOU KNOW YOU HAD ABOUT MAYBE SIX OR EIGHT "NO BREAKS" DURING THE NIGHT AND IF YOU WERE LUCKY UH, A NICE, GOOD LOOKING FELLOW WOULD COME OVER AND ASK YOU TO HAVE A "NO BREAK" AND YOU FELT VERY FLATTERED WHEN THEY DID THAT Lynn Molloy: IT WAS LIKE A SMALL LITTLE BOOK, ACTUALLY AND THEY WERE VERY FANCY UH, YOU KNOW, LIKE VELOUR OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND YOU'D OPEN IT UP AND THERE WOULD BE ABOUT SEVEN DANCES AND IT WOULD BE NO BREAK 1, NO BREAK 2, NO BREAK 3 AND THEN THE "GOOD NIGHT, SWEETHEART" DANCE AND THE GIRLS WOULD HAVE THE CARDS AND RIGHT WHEN YOU GOT TO THE DANCE THE GUYS WOULD RUN AROUND AND SAY, YOU KNOW "IS YOUR "NO BREAK" CARD FILLED?"

AND, AND YOU WOULD WRITE THEIR NAME DOWN SO YOU WOULD KNOW WHEN THEY WOULD... AND IN BETWEEN THE "NO BREAK" DANCES THERE WOULD BE JUST REGULAR DANCING BUT THEN THEY WOULD ANNOUNCE "WELL, IT'S "NO BREAK 3" AND EVERYBODY WOULD RUN AROUND AND...

THEY'D SAY, "OKAY, I'M, I'M ON YOUR CARD" IT'S COOL WE HAD "NO BREAKS," BUT YOU KNOW AT THAT TIME UH, PEOPLE DIDN'T HESITATE TO DANCE WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S DATES THEY'D DANCE WITH ONE A WHILE AND THEN THEY'D GO TAP THEM ON THE SHOULDER AND YOU'D CHANGE AND THAT WENT ON ALL NIGHT SO, I MEAN YOU MIGHT DANCE WITH 25 BOYS DURING THE NIGHT JUST HAD A GRAND TIME AND THEY WERE ALL FORMAL DANCES YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T UH IT WASN'T DRESS UP, GO TO CHURCH DANCES IT WAS FORMAL WEAR Moosnick: IT WAS JUST THE GLORIOUS THING TO DO UH, TO GO DOWN UH, YOU KNOW EITHER WITH GIRLFRIENDS OR SOMETIMES WITH YOUR MOM WHEN YOU REALLY NEEDED SOME, SOME MONEY TO BE SPENT AND UH, AND GET THE, THE SPECIAL OUTFIT UH, THE, THE DRESS THE DRESS FOR WHATEVER DANCE YOU WERE GOING TO BE GOING TO THAT...

WHICH WAS THE BIG DANCE OF THE YEAR, YOU KNOW THE THING I REMEMBER ABOUT THEM IS THE CRINOLINES THAT THE GIRLS WORE UNDER SKIRTS YOU KNOW AND THEY ALWAYS HAD THESE FULL SKIRTS AND UH... HOW DID YOU KNOW THERE WERE CRINOLINES UNDER THERE, HONEY?

WELL, I WAS TOLD THERE WERE (Laughing) (Music playing) (Music playing) SOON AFTER THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR CONGRESS DECLARES ALL MEN BETWEEN 18 AND 45 ELIGIBLE TO BE DRAFTED BUT MANY DON'T WAIT FOR THE CALL MEN FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE ENLIST IN THE ARMED FORCES AMONG THEM, LOCAL MUSICIANS BY MID 1942, EVERY BIG BAND IN LEXINGTON SUDDENLY HAS OPEN CHAIRS IT'S A TIME WHEN EVEN A VERY YOUNG MAN ONE WITH TALENT AND AMBITION CAN STEP UP AND BE HEARD AND I STARTED PLAYING WITH LOCAL BANDS AROUND HERE BECAUSE MOST OF THE MUSICIANS HAD BEEN DRAFTED THE OLDER MUSICIANS HAD BEEN DRAFTED AND I WAS OF COURSE IN THE HIGH SCHOOL BAND AND DOING ALL THAT SORT OF THING BUT I WASN'T INTERESTED IN, IN THAT SO MUCH SO I RAN AROUND TOWN PLAYING WITH LITTLE COMBOS WE PLAYED ALL THE OLD TUNES "THE SHEIK OF ARABY" AND UH, ALL THE OLD WORLD WAR I TUNES BECAUSE THAT'S, THAT'S... THOSE ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE LEFT HE PLAYED EVERYWHERE AND HE PLAYED PLACES WHERE NICE YOUNG LADIES WEREN'T ALLOWED TO GO AND I REMEMBER WE PLAYED ONCE IN THE, IN THE THE RAT'SKELLER DOWN IN THE LOWER PART OF THE PHOENIX HOTEL AND WE WERE WALKING AROUND HE HAD AN ACCORDION AND I HAD A TRUMPET THERE WAS A BASS PLAYER AND EVERYBODY WAS DRUNK I SAW LOTS OF THINGS THAT I SHOULD NOT HAVE SEEN WHEN I WAS 13 OR 14 YEARS OLD Moosnick: WE ALL ADMIRED BYRON, YOU KNOW BECAUSE HE WAS, HE WAS REALLY A MUSICIAN ALWAYS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING YOU KNOW, HE STARTED OUT UH, IN HIGH SCHOOL AND, AND BEFORE COLLEGE, EVEN AS, AS A REALLY GOOD MUSICIAN SO HE'S PLAYED WITH ALL OF THEM AND UH, HE COULD HOLD HIS OWN Romanowitz: AND SO I WAS PROBABLY THE YOUNGEST MEMBER OF THE BAND AND THEN SOME OTHER YOUNG PLAYERS JOINED ME AND EVENTUALLY WE FORMED A, A BIG BAND ABOUT OH, I GUESS, 13, 14 PIECES AND STARTED PLAYING COMMERCIAL VENUES HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE KENTUCKY KNIGHTS HE WAS...

HE WAS STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL 9th OR 10th GRADE, SOMEWHERE ALONG IN THERE AND THE LEADER HAD TO GO TALK TO HIS PARENTS AND ASSURE THEM THAT HE WOULD BE THOROUGHLY CHAPERONED AND THAT NOTHING BAD WOULD HAPPEN AND THEY, THEY FINALLY AGREED TO LET HIM PLAY I JOINED THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS UH, AT THE AGE OF 14, MUCH TO MY FATHER'S HORROR (Music playing) (Music playing) Molloy: ON THE WEEK-ENDS IN THE EVENINGS, THE BIG BANDS WERE PLAYING IN A LOT OF PLACES MOSTLY THERE WERE VENUES, THERE WERE PR- LOTS OF PRIVATE PARTIES SMALL COMBOS WERE PLAYING AT PLACES Moosnick: THERE WERE ALWAYS DANCES AT BOILING SPRINGS Moore: LAST TIME COUNT BASIE WAS HERE, HE WAS AT THE PHOENIX BALLROOM AND FACT IS, THE LAST TIME THE BILLY BUTTERFIELD BAND WAS HERE IT WAS AT THE PHOENIX BALLROOM AND JOYLAND PARK IN '46 THEY HAD A PLACE CALLED SPRINGHURST WELL, THE SPRINGHURST OUT AT THE HARRODSBURG PIKE BACK THERE KIND OF GO THROUGH A WHOLE TREE-LINED DRIVEWAY AND IT WAS A NIGHTCLUB Moore: SEE, SPRINGHURST WAS SORT OF AN ELITE CLUB, BECAUSE IT HAD...

IT, IT WAS A GAMBLING CLUB UNDER THE COVER BUT THEY HAD AN OUTDOOR... EVERYBODY UH...

THEY'D TRY TO HAVE AN OUTDOOR DANCE PAVILION BIG CONCRETE THING, YOU KNOW, WITH ALL OF THE GARDEN LIGHTS AND EVERYTHING AND THE BANDSTAND AT THE END AND TABLES AROUND AND THAT WAS SPRINGHURST Romanowitz: THERE WAS THE SPIDERWEB AND THE BI- THE PLACE IN THE BASEMENT ON GEORGETOWN STREET CALLED THE SUBWAY CLUB THAT ALWAYS HAD MUSIC AND WE USED TO GO DOWN THERE AFTER HOURS AND AND PLAY WITH THEM THERE WAS THE GREEN DOME Moosnick: WELL, THE GREEN DOME, WHICH WAS OUT OLD GEORGETOWN ROAD WAS A HOTSPOT VERY, VERY WILD PLACE HAD A GREAT DANCE FLOOR AND THEY HAD LIVE ORCHESTRAS LIVE BANDS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS AND SO, YOU KNOW, TO CHANGE THINGS UP YOU WENT TO THE GREEN DOME SO YOU COULD FIND THIS KIND OF MUSIC EVERYWHERE IN TOWN Roach: COURSE THAT WAS DURING THE DAYS OF SEGREGATION AND YOU KNOW, WE UH, DIDN'T FREQUENT THE UH OTHER SPOTS AROUND TOWN, IF I MIGHT USE THAT BUT UH, PLACES LIKE DANCELAND, THAT WAS ONE OF THE BLACK SPOTS WHICH UH, SOME OF THE BIG BANDS UH, PLAYED UH, BILTMORE, WHICH IS DOWN ON UH, MAIN STREET IT WASN'T OWNED BY BLACKS, BUT BLACKS DID ATTEND AND THERE WAS JACKSON HALL DOWN ON WATER STREET WHERE THE TRAIN TRACKS USED TO RUN UH, THEN OF COURSE, WE HAD THE COTTON CLUB OUT ON UH, UH, FOURTH STREET COTTON CLUB WAS A SPOT WHERE THEY HAD, UH SEATS AROUND THE FLOOR AND THEY ALSO HAD A BALCONY IT WAS A LAVISH CLUB AND WE WENT TO DANCES AT UK AND THE OLD STUDENT UNION BALLROOM WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST PLACES OF ALL TO DANCE SO WE DANCED OUR WAY THROUGH COLLEGE THEN UP JUMP THE DEVIL OUT AT... AT THAT A-WAY ALSO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE HEARD OF UP JUMP THE DEVIL OR NOT WE WENT DOWN TO UH THE, THE CIRCLE BAR DOWN ON THE RIVER AND THAT WAS, THAT WAS HAZARDOUS BECAUSE GOING DOWN WAS GREAT BUT AFTER AN EVENING OF DANCING AND BEER AND SO FORTH IT WAS A LITTLE BIT TRICKY GETTING BACK ON THE OLD RICHMOND ROAD UH, WITH WHOEVER YOU WERE RIDING WITH Molloy: I REMEMBER JITTERBUGGING DOWN THERE AND UH I REMEMBER THE DRINKS WERE GOOD AND YOU KNOW, REALLY, A LOT OF... AND WE MET A LOT OF EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOLKS THERE 'CAUSE THEY COULDN'T DO THAT IN RICHMOND, YOU KNOW AND IT WAS A GREAT TIME I PROBABLY LIKED IT BETTER THAN ANY PLACE THAT UH THAT I WENT TO THE STOP OVER STATION, OF COURSE WAS THERE FOR ALL OF THE GUYS IN SERVICE AND YOUNG WOMEN FROM ALL THE HIGH SCHOOLS AND, AND FROM UK AND TRANSYLVANIA WENT DOWN AS VOLUNTEER HOSTESSES AND I KNEW ABOUT IT AND I WAS... YOU KNOW, I WAS AGOG AT, AT THE OLDER GIRLS WHO GOT TO DO THAT AND GOT TO MEET ALL THOSE GUYS FROM ALL OVER AND THEY WERE IN, YOU KNOW THEIR SAILOR UNIFORMS AND THEIR ARMY UNIFORMS AND SO FORTH Gabbert: AND WE JUST HAD A GRAND TIME Moore: THERE WAS JUST A LOT OF GREAT MUSIC (Music playing) (Music playing) ONE WONDERFUL NIGHT IT WAS GLENN MILLER MILLER GOODMAN BASIE ELLINGTON MUSICIANS SO LEGENDARY THEY'RE RECOGNIZED BY A SINGLE NAME IN THE 1940s, THE MOST FAMOUS BIG BAND LEADERS BOOKED THEIR GROUPS INTO LEXINGTON FROM THE UK STUDENT UNION TO THE LYRIC THEATER DANCELAND TO JOYLAND ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT YOU MIGHT HEAR ELLA FITZGERALD OR GENE KRUPA LOUIS ARMSTRONG OR TOMMY DORSEY AND EVEN WHEN THE BIG NAMES AREN'T IN TOWN GREAT LOCAL GROUPS LIKE THE BLUE AND WHITE BAND AND SMOKE RICHARDSON'S BAND PLAY NEARLY EVERY NIGHT THE BIG BANDS, UH PARTICULARLY AT DANCELAND CHIC WEBB, UH THAT'S WHEN ELLA FITZGERALD WAS IN ALL HER GLORY WHEN ELLA FIRST CAME TO TOWN, SHE HAD THAT "TISKET, A TASKET MY LITTLE YELLOW BASKET" SHE WAS JUST A GREAT SONGSTRESS Moore: PERFECT PITCH AND A FIVE OCTAVE RANGE Gabbert: I CAN REMEMBER ELLA FITZGERALD BEING THERE AND I JUST STOOD JUST IN AWE LISTENING TO HER SING SHE WAS WONDERFUL NOBLE CECIL NOBLE CECIL WAS A SWEET BAND I SAY A BAND THAT PLAYED THOSE MILLER TUNES I CAN REMEMBER VERY SPECIFICALLY THE NIGHT THAT WE WENT TO SEE GENE KRUPA Roach: GENE KRUPA'S BAND BENNY GOODMAN'S BAND UH, ALL THOSE BIG BANDS THEY WERE JUST...

THEY HAD A WORLD... YOU KNOW, SOME MUSICIANS, TERRIFIC MUSICIANS LIONEL CAME ALONG WITH HIS XYLOPHONE AND BOY, OH BOY SMOKY WAS THERE, THAT'S WH- THAT'S WERE WE WOULD GO OR "SMOKE" RICHARDSON, HE WAS CALLED YEAH, IT WASN'T SMOKY, IT WAS "SMOKE" SMOKE AND THAT'S UH AND WE'D ALWAYS GO BECAUSE HE WAS GOING TO BE THERE Roach: BANDS LIKE SMOKE RICHARDSON AND GEORGE NEMERY, THOSE BANDS WHICH WERE ALL BLACK BANDS A MELLOW BAND WHICH WOULD PLAY MUSIC LIKE "TREES" AND "STARDUST" AND...

BUT UH, HE'D GET HUNG UP ON THOSE TUNES AND YOU MIGHT CHANGE PARTNERS TWO OR THREE TIMES WHILE HE'S PLAYING THOSE SONGS YEAH, HE WAS KEYBOARD AND, AND HE WAS...

HE HIMSELF WAS JUST... A MASTER SO EVERYBODY JUST, YOU KNOW, REALLY BACKED HIM UP BILL CROSS HAD THE FINEST BIG BAND HERE IN LEXINGTON PRIOR TO THE WAR RIGHT BEFORE THE WAR, THEY DRAFTED HIM OUT HE HAD A BAND IN THE WAR IT WAS CALL- IT WAS CALLED THE BLUE AND WHITE BAND WE JUST HAD REALLY GOOD MUSICIANS IN LEXINGTON UH, ALL THROUGH THE YEARS AND THERE WERE WONDERFUL AFRICAN-AMERICAN BANDS THAT ARE VERY SOUGHT AFTER TO PLAY FOR THE SORORITY AND FRATERNITY DANCES GEORGE NEMERY WAS A BAND FROM OVER IN RICHMOND AND UH, WE ALSO HAD A BAND HERE CALLED CHARLES, UH CHARLES FIELDS' BAND THE BEST BIG BAND I EVER PLAYED WITH WAS BOB BLIGHT'S BLUE AND WHITE BAND AFTER THE WAR IT WAS THE BEST...

IT WAS REALLY A FINE ORGANIZATION BOB BLIGHT WENT TO HENRY CLAY HIGH SCHOOL WITH ME AND BOB BLIGHT BAND PLAYED FOR ALL OF OUR DANCES ANDY OF COURSE WAS ONE OF RUPP'S, UH SCHOLARSHIP BASKETBALL PLAYERS ANDY ANDERSON COURSE HE HAD LOTS OF CONNECTIONS AND LIKE ANY GREAT ATHLETE EVERYBODY KNEW HIM AND SO HE, HE DECIDED TO FORM A BAND BILLY BUTTERFIELD WAS ONE OF THEM HE WAS... BILLY WAS FROM NORWOOD, OHIO IT WAS RIGHT IN THE EDGE OF CINCINNATI WE HAD A BAND HERE, A FELLOW NAMED BRUCE MONSON HAD A BAND AND I DECIDED THAT WE NEEDED TO GIVE HIM A CATCHIER NAME SO I NAMED HIM "MAD MAN MONSON" I MADE HIM MAD ALL RIGHT HE THOUGHT "BRUCE" WAS WHAT HIS MOTHER CALLED HIM AND HE LIKED THAT BETTER, BUT ANYWAY, WE PROMOTED HIM AS "MAD MAN MONSON" I WAS LUCKY TO LIVE THROUGH THAT ERROR THE BAND THAT I HAVEN'T HEARD MENTIONED AND IT WAS VERY KEY TO DANCING IN LEXINGTON WAS DAVE PERRY'S BAND DUKE MADISON YEAH, DUKE WAS SUPERB DUKE WAS WONDERFUL HE COULD REALLY SWING DUKE AND I PLAYED A LOT OF JOBS TOGETHER WE PLAYED THESE SESSIONS TOGETHER AND SOME LITTLE COMBO JOBS AND I HAD TO LEARN TO PLAY COOL I, I WAS A MEMBER OF THE COOL SCHOOL BECAUSE I COULDN'T, I COULDN'T KEEP UP WITH DUKE SWINGING THEY HAD SOUNDS THAT YOU DON'T GET OUT OF THE SAXOPHONES AND TRUM- I MEAN THEY JUST DON'T HAVE THE SOUNDS NOW LIKE THEY USE TO HAVE AND THEY COULD BLOW USE THE TERM, WHAT I'M SAYING, THEY COULD BLOW (Laughing) MOST OF THE YOUNG MEN ARE GONE SOME FIGHTING THE WAR IN EUROPE OR IN THE PACIFIC OTHERS STATIONED AT MILITARY FACILITIES ACROSS THE U.S.

BUT SOON THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WELCOMES A NEW GROUP OF STUDENTS SOLDIERS STATIONED AT THE LEXINGTON CAMPUS TO STUDY ENGINEERING WHEN THEY SHIP OUT MANY HAVE FOND MEMORIES OF LIFE IN THE BLUEGRASS (Music playing) THIS TIME, WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN WITH A LETTER FROM 43 FOXHOLE BUDDIES SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA THAT'S RIGHT FORTY-THREE COUNT 'EM THEY WANT TO KNOW IF BY REQUEST CAN SHOW THEM SOME SCENES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WHERE THEY TRAINED AND A FEW SHOTS OF LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY WHICH MOST OF THEM FEEL IS SORT OF A SECOND HOMETOWN WELL, 43 NAMES IS A LOT OF NAMES SO HERE'S YOUR REQUEST, FELLOWS HERE'S THE MAIN STREET OF LEXINGTON WITH A GLIMPSE OF THE PHOENIX HOTEL WHERE THE ARMY STILL QUARTERS GIs IN TRAINING AT KENTUCKY U AND HERE'S THE OLD KEITH CHOP HOUSE AFTER HOURS OR WHILE ON PASS THE ENLISTED MEN CONTINUE TO DROP IN FOR A GLASS OF BEER AND TO PASS THE TIME WITH THE GIRLS WHO SERVE THE LIGHT MELLOW BREW YOU 43 MEN ESPECIALLY WANTED A PICTURE OF JOYLAND SO NATURALLY WE INCLUDE IT BUT RIGHT NOW, BUSINESS IS A LITTLE SLOW THE ROLLER COASTER ONLY TAKES THE CURVES ON SUNDAYS AND IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE THAT UNTIL WE GET TO TOKYO (Music playing) HOW'S THIS FOR A SHOT OF THE CAMPUS AT KENTUCKY U?

LOOKS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME, DOESN'T IT?

A DIFFERENT BUNCH OF GIs, OF COURSE, BUT THEY TOO GO FOR THIS BLUEGRASS TERRAIN AND THE FAMOUS KENTUCKY BELLES IN A BIG WAY (Music playing) IT WON'T BE LONG NOW BEFORE MOST OF THESE FELLOWS WILL BE SHIPPED TO ETO OR THE SOUTH PACIFIC AS ENGINEER PERSONNEL THAT'S WHY, SOONER OR LATER THEY GET AROUND TO VISITING THAT STATUE OF PREXIE PATTERSON LIKE YOU FELLOWS ON NEW GUINEA WHO WANTED TO SEE THESE PICTURES THEY FOUND KENTUCKY U A FINE PLACE WHEN I ENTERED THE UNIVERSITY IT WAS THE MOST WONDERFUL PLACE IN THE WORLD BECAUSE IT WAS FULL OF STUDENTS I THINK THERE WERE ABOUT 6,000 IT WAS FULL OF FRATERNITIES, SORORITIES AND ALL THE HOMECOMINGS AND THE DOINGS DANCES OVER IN THE STUDENT CENTER I WAS THERE FROM 1942 TO 1946 AND WE HAD OH, SO MANY BANDS WE HAD LOUIS ARMSTRONG I CAN REMEMBER HIS STACK OF WHITE LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS SITTING THERE AND HE'D MOP HIS BROW AND UH, TEX BENNEKE THE UH, BILL CROSS, THE BLUE AND WHITE PLAY THERE REAL OFTEN HAD, HAD MANY PEOPLE PLAY THERE BUT THEN, THE WAR HIT AND IN 1944 ALL OUR GOOD, MALE BUDDIES START MARCHING OFF TO WAR SOME OF THEM WENT TO EUROPE SOME OF THEM WENT TO THE PACIFIC BUT ON THE CAMPUS, THEN BY MY JUNIOR YEAR THERE WERE WOMEN AND PEOPLE THAT COULD NOT GET INTO THE ARMY FOR SOME PHYSICAL REASON BUT THEN THEY BROUGHT ALL THE SOLDIERS IN SOME OF THEM LIVED OVER IN UH, BOYS' DORMITORY THERE BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND ROSE STREET AND OTHERS LIVED IN HOLMES HALL AND SOME LIVED IN THE PHOENIX HOTEL AIR CORPS BOYS LIVED OUT AT TRANSYLVANIA SO OUR LIFE CHANGED THEN BECAUSE WE...

THE REGULAR BOYS THAT WE KNEW WERE OUT OF TOWN EXCEPT COMING IN OUT OF TOWN ON LEAVE AND WHEN THEY'D COME IN ON LEAVE WE WOULD GO PLACES LIKE JOYLAND TO DANCE AND THE GREEN DOME AND THINGS LIKE THAT IN LEXINGTON, GO TO MOVIES OUT TO EAT DOWN...

HANG AROUND DOWN A THE CANARY COTTAGE BUT UH THE BOYS WERE MOSTLY UH, ENGINEERING STUDENTS AND A LOT OF THE FRATERNITIES, SORORITIES ALL ENTERTAINED THEM THE GIRLS HAD THE CARS SOLDIERS DIDN'T HAVE CARS AND SO WE WOULD LIKE TRIPLE DATE AND WE'D GO PICK UP OUR SOLDIER FRIEND OVER AT THE DORM AND WE'D ALL GO OUT... MAYBE THREE OF US DANCE BUT WE HAD AN AWFUL GOOD TIME (Music playing) Moosnick: WHEN I GOT TO UK IN 1948 UH, AND WAS THERE, YOU KNOW, FOR FOUR YEARS AND GRADUATED IN '52 THAT WAS A PARTICULARLY LOVELY TIME BECAUSE THE, THE YOUNG MEN WHO HAD COME BACK FROM THE WAR WHO DIDN'T GET TO DO THEIR COLLEGE UH, YEARS AND HAD TO COME BACK AND GO, EITHER FINISH COLLEGE OR, OR DO THE WHOLE THING WHEN THEY GOT HOME WERE THERE AND UH, THE GIRLS WERE COMING OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND WE WERE JUST I MEAN WE WERE JUST AS, AS UH, WHOLESOME AND UH AS INNOCENT AS YOU COULD POSSIBLY FIND ANYWHERE AND THE GUYS HAD BEEN AROUND THEY'D BEEN OVERSEAS THEY'D BEEN TO "PAREE" THEY WERE UH, FULL OF, OF VIM AND VIGOR Gabbert: COURSE THEY JUST MATURED THEY GREW UP, THEY GREW UP FROM KIDS TO MEN AND WOMEN Moosnick: AND THEY WERE...

THEY, THEY BROUGHT UH A LOT MORE DRINKING A LOT MORE BEER, A LOT MORE JUST PLAIN OLD BOOZE ON CAMPUS UH, OR NEAR CAMPUS AND IT WAS, IT WAS KIND OF HEADY Gabbert: THERE WAS A LOT OF ADJUSTMENT AND A LOT OF ADJUSTMENT FOR THE BOYS COMING BACK HOME EVEN LIVING WITH THEIR FAMILIES BECAUSE THEY WERE NO LONGER THAT MOTHER AND FATHER'S LITTLE BOY OR GIRL THEY WERE, HAD GROWN UP THEY DIDN'T WANT THE PARENTS TO TELL THEM WHAT TIME TO COME HOME Moosnick: YOU KNOW, IT WAS...

ROMANCE WAS IN THE AIR (Laughing) I JUST MUST ADMIT, IT WAS BUT IT WAS AN INNOCENT KIND OF ROMANCE ALL OF THE, THE HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS HAD TO CONVINCE THE GUYS WHO WERE HOME FROM THE WAR THAT THEY WERE UH NOT GOING TO GET "TOO FAR" (Laughing) (Music playing) Moore: IT WAS JUST GREAT, GREAT TIME EVERYONE JUST HAVING A GOOD TIME I MEAN DANCING, JITTERBUGGING Gabbert: WE DID SWING DANCING SLOW DANCING WHY DANCING THEY SAID úWHAT IS THAT?'

AND I SAID, "WELL, THEY JUST GOT TO STAND AND HUG EACH OTHER" YOU KNOW, WE'D GONE THROUGH A PERIOD OF HAVING TO HAVE GASOLINE STAMPS SUGAR STAMPS UH, HAD TO BE VERY CAREFUL EVERYTHING... YOU COULD NOT BUY WOMEN'S BEAUTIFUL LINGERIE YOU'D HAVE TO MAKE A GOWN OUT OF PARACHUTE SILK Wiedemann: AND YOU DID HOLD ON TO THE GAL, YOU KNOW NONE OF THIS... YOU KNOW, BUT YOU DID SPIN THEM AND, AND UH AND THIS, THIS IS WHERE SOME OF THE AVANT-GARDE DANCERS SHOWED OFF YOU KNOW, AND SWUNG THE GIRL OVER THE SHOULDER AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF I NEVER WAS THAT WAY, I COULD MAYBE HOLD THEM OUT AND BRING THEM AROUND, BUT THAT WAS ABOUT IT Roach: THE LEXINGTON COLORED FAIR THEY HAD VARIOUS CONTESTS LIKE THE CHARLESTON HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE CHARLESTON?

WE WENT TO SO MANY DANCES PRACTICALLY EVERY WEEK-END AND WORE FORMALS THAT I GOT SO I'D RIP OFF THE TOP OF ONE DRESS AND SEW IT ON THE BOTTOM OF ANOTHER SO I'D HAVE A DIFFERENT DRESS KIDS OUT ON THE FLOOR WOULD GET TO DANCING AND THEY'D BE DOING SO GOOD THAT ALL THE OTHER DANCERS WOULD JUST FALL BACK AND MORE OR LESS FORM A CIRCLE AND UH, COURSE WE WAS SITTING UP ON THE STAND WE'D PLAY OUR HEARTS OUT FOR THEM DANCING WAS A GREAT PART OF THE...

IT WAS, UH IT WAS EARLY AEROBICS I MEAN IT WAS JUST...

IT WAS TERRIFIC WE HAD AN ARRANGEMENT ON "NAGASAKI" AND I REMEMBER ONE NIGHT WE PLAYED THAT THING AND SOMEBODY TIMED IT AND SAID WE PLAYED IT FOR 22 MINUTES I THINK THAT THAT WAS SOME SORT OF A RECORD WE PLAYED AND BOY, THAT WAS GOING TOO... AND OF COURSE THE BOYS SENT YOU FLOWERS AND UH...

BUT THEN AS THE WAR WORE ON AND EVERYTHING BECAME A LOT MORE SERIOUS AT THAT TIME, OF COURSE AND UH, THEN THE GIRLS STARTED WEARING JUST SHORT DRESSES MOSTLY JUST BLACK DRESSES THAT WAS THE LOOK TO HAVE A GOOD BLACK DRESS Moosnick: SO NOW WHAT YOU HAD TO DO WAS FIND A GREAT LOOKING BOYFRIEND WHO WANTED TO DANCE Gabbert: THAT'S HOW I MET MY HUSBAND OF 56 YEARS AT THE STUDENT CENTER AT A DANCE YOU KNOW, YOU JUST COULDN'T HAVE A BOYFRIEND WHO WAS UH A NON-DANCER IT JUST WOULDN'T PLAY YOU JUST COULDN'T GET ANYWHERE IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE A GUY WHO LOVED TO DANCE HE USED TO COME UP AND BREAK ME AND DANCE WITH ME AND THAT'S HOW WE STARTED DATING AND UH, WE DATED WHEN HE WENT INTO THE ARMY AND HE'D COME HOME ON A FEW LEAVES AND THEN OFF HE WENT FOR OVER TWO YEARS HE WAS IN ENGLAND WHEN THEY BROUGHT THE BOYS BACK FROM NORMANDY INVASION AND THEN HE WAS IN PARIS IN THE...

HE WORKED AS A SURGICAL TECHNICIAN IN THE PARIS HOSPITAL FOR A YEAR SO HE WAS GONE ABOUT 27 MONTHS SO WE WROTE MANY, MANY, MANY LETTERS SO HE CAME BACK AND WE MARRIED THAT DECEMBER 1946 SO IF YOU FOUND ONE OF THOSE IT WAS JUST ABSOLUTELY HEAVEN AND THAT'S, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED I FOUND A GREAT LOOKING GUY WHO WAS A JUNIOR HE CAME BACK TO FINISH HE HAD ALREADY HAD A COUPLE OF YEARS OF, OF COLLEGE AND... BEFORE HE WENT INTO THE SERVICE AND HE WAS A DANCER (Music playing) (Music playing) A FEW MILES NORTH OF LEXINGTON ON PARIS PIKE IS JOYLAND PARK WITH THE BIGGEST SWIMMING POOL AROUND A 90-FOOT HIGH WOODEN ROLLER COASTER A ZOO, FEATURING LIONS, BEARS AND MONKEYS AND A DANCE CASINO THAT REGULARLY ATTRACTS BIG NAME BANDS JOYLAND HAS BEEN A POPULAR DESTINATION IN LEXINGTON SINCE IT OPENED IN 1923 IN 1942, A GROUP OF LOCAL BUSINESSMEN INCLUDING REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER-- GARVIS KINCAID BUY JOYLAND PARK I WAS TAKING ONE COURSE IN SUMMER SCHOOL AFTER THE WAR AND ONE OF MY BUDDIES TOLD MY DADDY ONE DAY AT THE DRUGSTORE AND MY FATHER WAS ON THE BOARD OF A BANK DOWN THERE THAT GARVIS KINCAID OWNED AND HE SAW MR. KINCAID ONE DAY AT A BOARD MEETING AND HE SAYS, "I JUST FOUND OUT MY SON UP IN LEXINGTON "IS TAKING ONE CLASS AT, IN UK THIS SUMMER AND I'M AFRAID HE'S GOT A POWERFUL LOT OF TIME TO GET IN TROUBLE."

HE SAID, "COULD YOU DO ANYTHING TO HELP HIM OUT?"

SO MR. KINCAID SAID, "YOU TELL HIM TO CALL... " HE SAID, "I'LL HAVE A MAN CALL HIM TOMORROW."

SO A MAN OUT AT JOYLAND CALLED ME AND HE SAID "JOHN, MR. KINCAID SAID TO PUT YOU TO WORK OUT HERE BE OUT HERE TOMORROW."

THAT WAS JULY 3 ONE NIGHT, THEY HAD A BUS CAME BY AND THEY SAID THAT ANYBODY THAT WANTS TO GO TO JOYLAND TO DANCE WE'LL GIVE THEM FREE PASSES SO HE SAID, "COME ON, LET'S GO OUT THERE."

AND WE SAID, "WELL, ALL RIGHT, THAT WILL BE FINE."

AND I HEADED FOR THE BUS AND THESE TWO LITTLE SOLDIERS THAT WERE TROTTING ALONG WITH ME SAID, "WELL, YOU RIDE WITH US" AND I SAID, "AREN'T WE GOING TO RIDE ON THE BUS?"

AND THEY SAID, "NO, WE'VE GOT OUR OWN TRANSPORTATION."

I THOUGHT, úWELL, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT... MY MOTHER WOULDN'T LIKE THAT.'

MOST OF THE KIDS WHO GREW UP HERE IN LEXINGTON AS I DID HAD BEEN GOING TO JOYLAND PARK ALL OUR LIVES WE TOOK OUR, OUR UH EIGHT-YEAR-OLD OR SEVEN-YEAR-OLD SWIM LESSONS THERE WITH ALGIE REECE HE TAUGHT...

I GUESS PRACTICALLY EVERYBODY IN LEXINGTON AT THAT AGE HOW TO SWIM I FOUND THAT I WAS TO SELL HOT-DOGS AND COKES IN THE HOT-DOG STAND WHICH SUITED ME FINE, GOT... YOU GOT, YOU GOT ALL YOU COULD EAT ABOUT NOON, YOU REALIZED YOU THE MORE YOU LOOKED AT THAT HOT-DOG THE MORE YOU WOULDN'T EAT ANOTHER DAMN HOT-DOG AS LONG AS YOU LIVED BUT I GOT SICK AND TIRED OF THAT JOB ABOUT SIX HOURS AFTER I GOT THERE WHICH WAS NOON Gabbert: HE HOPPED ON HIS MOTORCYCLE AND PUT ME BEHIND HIM AND THE OTHER SOLDIER BEHIND THAT AND THEY HAD THOSE ARMY HATS COCKED UP THERE AND OFF WE WENT DOWN THE ESPLANADE DOWN MAIN STREET AND I WAS JUST LIKE THIS I THOUGHT úOH, IF MY PARENTS PULL UP AT A STOPLIGHT I'M IN REAL TROUBLE.'

WENT TO BROADWAY TURNED RIGHT, WENT ON OUT THE PARIS PIKE TO JOYLAND PARKED HIS MOTORCYCLE AND WE ALL WENT IN AND DANCED AND I WENT OVER, THERE WAS A MONKEY CAGE RIGHT NEXT TO WHERE WE WERE SELLING HOT-DOGS AND THE ODOR FROM THE MONKEYS AND THE ODOR FROM THE HOT-DOGS SORT OF MIXED AND I WAS JUST GETTING SICK AS THE DEVIL, SO I WENT OVER AND SET UNDER A TREE FOR A WHILE AND CAME BACK AND I TOLD MY COLLEAGUE THAT WAS THERE WITH ME, I SAID "I BEEN OUT HERE FOR SIX HOURS NOW "AND I'VE WATCHED THAT LITTLE FELLOW IN THAT GREEN SPORT SHIRT."

HE WAS DRIVING THAT PICKUP TRUCK UP HERE AND DUMPING COCA-COLAS TO US BACK IN THOSE DAYS, YOU USED A WOODEN BOX AND THE COCA-COLAS, THERE WERE 24 COCA-COLAS IN A WOODEN BOX THIS BIRD WAS PICKING UP A WOODEN BOX WITH ONE HAND AND A WOODEN BOX WITH ANOTHER HAND PICKING THEM OUT OF THE PICKUP TRUCK AND PUTTING THEM UP ON THE COUNTER I TOLD MY FRIEND, I SAID "I DO NOT WANT TO DO WHAT THAT BIRD'S BEEN DOING FOR SIX HOURS WHEN I'M HIS AGE."

HE PATTED ME ON THE BACK AND HE SAYS, "SON THAT'S GARVIS KINCAID."

I SAID, "IF I QUIT THIS JOB, THAT MAN WILL TELL MY DADDY I WON'T BE ABLE TO SIT DOWN FOR A MONTH."

AND SO I KEPT THE JOB AND I CAN REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, BEING THERE AT THE PARK WITH MY MOM AND DAD AND YOU KNOW, MAYBE SOME NEIGHBORS AND UH, THEY ALWAYS WOULD GO IF IT...

IF THE EVENING HAD COME ON AND WE STAYED, YOU KNOW TO, TO EAT AND HAVE A PICNIC THEY WOULD ALWAYS GO AND LOOK IN THE UH, SCREENED WINDOWS IN THE SUMMERTIME AT ALL OF THE DANCERS AT JOYLAND PARK AND THAT WAS SO ROMANTIC SO ROMANTIC AND MY DAD WOULD BOOST ME UP AND LET ME LOOK IN THE WINDOW AND UH, I COULD SEE ALL THE BEAUTIFUL DANCERS AND UH THE MUSIC JUST CAPTURED ME SO, I JUST COULDN'T WAIT UNTIL THE DAY CAME WHEN I WAS OLD ENOUGH TO GO TO JOYLAND WE HAD COUNT BASIE, WE HAD LIONEL HAMPTON WE HAD UH, ELLIOT LAWRENCE WE HAD ELLIOT LAWRENCE ONE SATURDAY NIGHT RIGHT AFTER BEAR BRYANT'S FOOTBALL GAME ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON I DECIDED... WE HAD A BEAR CAGE NEXT TO THE MONKEY CAGE AND I THOUGHT BEAR BRYANT SO I GOT A MUZZLE I TALKED TO SOMEONE WHO KNEW ALL ABOUT BEARS SOME FELLOW I JUST HAPPENED TO SEE STANDING BY THERE AND HE CLAIMED HE KNEW A LOT ABOUT BEARS BUT ANYWAY, WE GOT SOMEBODY OUT THERE THAT WAS CRAZY ENOUGH TO MUZZLE THAT BEAR WE PUT THE BEAR ON A HALTER PUT THE BEAR IN THE BACK SEAT OF MY CAR, TIED HIM DOWN SO HE WOULDN'T JUMP UP IN THE FRONT SEAT WITH ME I DON'T KNOW HOW WE DID THAT YET BUT I WASN'T DRINKING THOSE DAYS, SO IT WAS IT WAS A SOBER OPERATION BUT I WOULDN'T DO IT NOW FOR A MILLION DOLLARS BUT WE GOT THAT BEAR DOWN ON MAIN STREET AND RUN HIM UP AND DOWN THE STREET WATCH THE BEAR, BOYS, WATCH THE BEAR'S BOYS TOMORROW AFTERNOON SEE ELLIOT LAWRENCE TOMORROW NIGHT AND THEN WE WENT ALL OVER THE CAMPUS AND WE HAD A BIG CROWD WE GOT BACK ON THE MOTORCYCLE BACK DOWN TO THE STOP OVER STATION, 'CAUSE MY CAR WAS THERE TO TAKE ME HOME NEVER DID TELL THAT STORY TO MY PARENTS ♪ ...BLUES MEAN SADNESS ♪ ♪ CHASE THEM AWAY WITH GLADNESS... ♪ ONE OF THE LEGENDARY EVENTS AT JOYLAND PARK INVOLVES A YOUNG LADY NAMED RUBYE GRAHAM A SENIOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEMORIAL DAY 1949 MR. KINCAID OR SOMEONE HIRED A LADY TO COME OUT AND CLIMB 50 FEET UP ON AN AERIAL TRAPEZE RUBYE WAS A MOVER AND A SHAKER GUARANTEED HER PUBLICITY ALL OVER THE COUNTRY IF SHE WOULD JUST GO OUT THERE AND DO WHAT I ASKED HER TO DO SO SHE SAID, "FINE" SO I TOOK HER OUT THERE, SHE CLIMBED UP THIS TRAPEZE AND THEN MY JOB WAS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO NEXT TO GET THE CROWD SHE WAS ALWAYS INTO SOMETHING AND IT WAS EITHER OUT AT JOYLAND OR AT 2K-EES OR YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE LITTLE SPOTS AROUND UK AND THIS MAN AND HIS WIFE CAME ACROSS WITH A PICNIC BASKET FULL OF FOOD FROM HOME AND I WENT UP TO THE LADY AND I SAID "I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WOMAN'S SUPPOSED TO BE UP THERE I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, BUT..." I SAID, "EARLIER I SAW THE WOMAN THAT CLIMBS THAT THING AND IT WASN'T THIS PERSON."

I SAID, "IN FACT THAT GIRL LOOKS LIKE... SHE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE SHE'S OVER 20 YEARS OLD."

SHE SAID "MR. YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHERE THE, WHERE THERE'S A TELEPHONE" AND I POINTED UP TOWARDS THE OFFICE AND I SAID "I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS UP THERE, BUT MAYBE THEY HAVE A TELEPHONE IN THAT PLACE," WELL SHE WENT UP, THEY CALLED THE FIRE DEPARTMENT THE POLICE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT EARL McDANIELS WAS ASSISTANT POLICE CHIEF HE'S PASSED ON BUT THEY GOT EARL AND EARL CALLED THE PAPER AND SAID "EARL McDANIEL TO THE RESCUE WE'RE HEADED FOR JOYLAND BRING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHERS."

SO THEY DID AND SO EARL CLIMBS UP THIS THING AND HE HE'S UP THERE WAITING TO RESCUE THE GIRL WHO SITTING UP THERE CASUALLY SWINGING HER HER LEGS ACROSS AND JUST HAVING A GOOD TIME Moosnick: I HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY HOURS HOW MANY DAYS SHE STAYED UP THERE BUT SHE STAYED UP THERE A GOOD LITTLE WHILE Irvin: FINALLY, I THOUGHT, "WHY DOESN'T SHE COME DOWN?"

AND THEN I THOUGHT úI REMEMBER, SHE'S NOT COMING DOWN 'TIL I TAKE MY HAT OFF' I TOOK MY HAT OFF SHE HELPED THE ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF DOWN THE STEPS AND THE PAPER, IT WAS ON THE FRONT PAGE THAT AFTERNOON Moosnick: IT WAS ABSOLUTELY THE TALK OF THE TOWN FRONT PAGE STUFF Irvin: AND THE GIRL WAS NOT ALLOWED TO GRADUATE WITH HER CLASS Moosnick: AND ENOUGH TO GET THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ADMINISTRATION ALL COMPLETELY IN UNDONE SHAPE Irvin: HERMAN DONOVAN WAS PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY AND HE FORBID HER TO BE PRESENTED HER DIPLOMA IN THE CENTER OF THE FOOTBALL FIELD THAT FRIDAY NIGHT SHE WAS MAILED IT DOWN IN BRANDENBURG AND GOT HER DEGREE IN ABSENTIA SHE WENT ON TO NEW YORK, LATER WAS EDITOR OF 17 MAGAZINE AND RUBYE WAS A PIECE OF WORK (Music playing) (Music playing) (Music playing) Moore: NOW JOYLAND WAS MORE OR LESS A CLUB OF THE MASSES ANYBODY COULD GO OUT THERE FOR 35 CENTS GET IN AND U DANCE ALL NIGHT, YOU KNOW Romanowitz: AS JAZZ PLAYER, AS AN IMPROVISER I WAS INVITED TO PLAY LOTS OF PLACES UH, ONE OF THE FIRST PLACES WAS, WAS WITH PACK HUMPHREY'S BAND AS THE HOUSE BAND AT JOYLAND PARK AND I WAS UH, IN, IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AND ALL THESE OTHER FELLOWS WERE, WERE PRETTY OLD THERE WAS A BIG BAR UH, ON THE OPPOSITE WALL FROM THE, THE SHELL AT JOYLAND AND UH, THE BAR WAS ALWAYS CROWDED AND OF COURSE, YOU KNOW YOUNG LADIES DIDN'T GO AND GET THEIR OWN DRINKS, THEN YOU JUST TOLD YOUR...THE, THE GUY YOU WERE WITH UH, WHAT YOU WANTED AND HE GOT (Laughing) McGinnis: THEN THEY HAD A DANCE CASINO THAT WAS OPEN SIX, SEVEN NIGHTS A WEEK AND THEY WOULD...

ALWAYS HAD A LOCAL BAND AND THEN THEY WOULD ABOUT ONCE EVERY TWO WEEKS THEY'D GET A NAME BAND IN USUALLY ONE THAT WAS COMING IN OR OUT OF CINCINNATI OR LOUISVILLE AND THEY'D CATCH THEM HERE FOR A ONE-NIGHTER THE PLACE WAS OPEN IN THE SUMMERTIME AND IT HAD GREAT BIG FLAPS OVER THE WINDOWS THAT WERE NOTHING BUT SCREENS SO IN THE SUMMER, THE WINDOW, THE FLAPS WERE OPEN AND THE BREEZE CAME THROUGH TAKING THE BEER FUMES OUT AND IN THE WINTERTIME THE FLAPS WERE DOWN AND, AND WHEN IT WAS COOL YOU'D GO IN THERE AND YOU HAD TO LIVE WITH THE BEER FUMES AND THE CIGAR, THE CIGAR AND CIGARETTE SMOKE THE DANCE FLOOR WAS IN THE MIDDLE LIKE A BASKETBALL COURT AND THEN ALL AROUND THE SIDES WAS TABLES WELL, ALL YOU COULD SEE WERE, WERE...

IT WAS DARK ALL YOU COULD SEE WAS TABLES YOU COULD GO DOWN THE LIST AND ALMOST 10 OR 15 YEARS AT JOYLAND THERE WAS ALMOST EVERY BAND OF ANY CONSEQUENCE PLAYED JOYLAND PARK IT WAS, IT WAS A HOTSPOT ON THE CIRCUIT WHEN COUNT BASIE WAS THERE, WHEN LIONEL HAMPTON WAS THERE ANY OF THE BIG BANDS ABOUT A THIRD OF THE DANCE FLOOR WAS TAKEN UP BY PEOPLE STANDING IN FRONT OF THE BAND YOU WERE CLOSER TO THEM THAN I AM TO YOU RIGHT NOW UH, LOUIS ARMSTRONG WAS THIS FAR FROM ME AND I WATCHED HIM USE HANDKERCHIEF AFTER HANDKERCHIEF AND JUST BLOW THE END OFF THAT TRUMPET UH, CAB CALLOWAY WAS OUT THERE UH, SONNY DUNHAM WAS THERE ALL THE BIG BANDS YOU KNOW, SO MANY OF THESE PEOPLE WE FOLLOWED THEM EVERY PLACE THEY PLAYED OR ON TV OR MOVIES, WHATEVER WE'D SAY, "OH, WE SAW THEM OUT AT JOYLAND."

IT WAS A WONDERFUL PLACE TO PLAY I CAN REMEMBER BEING OUT THERE AND THINKING THAT THE STAGE WAS...

THE STAGE ACOUSTICS WERE EXCELLENT YOU COULD HEAR WHAT EVERYBODY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BAND WAS DOING AND OF COURSE, IT HAD SOMETHING TO DO I THINK WITH THE ACOUSTICS OFF OF...

THE, THE.

THE BOUNCING OF THE SOUND OFF OF THOSE OLD TIN PALM LEAVES THAT WERE ALL OVER THE PLACE ONE THING THE BANDS LIKE TO COME THERE BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS GOT SUCH A BIG CROWD LEXINGTON WAS ON THE WAY FROM LOUISVILLE TO CINCINNATI OR FROM CINCINNATI TO SOMEPLACE ELSE AND WE GOT THE OFF NIGHTS BUT THE MUSICIANS WOULD COME IN TO JOYLAND BORED AND THEY WOULD GO THROUGH... PERFUNCTORY UH PLAYING A FEW TUNES AT THE BEGINNING AND THEN THEY'D START LISTENING TO THEMSELVES AND THE JAZZ...

THE GUYS WHO PLAYED JAZZ WOODY HERMAN, PARTICULARLY I MEAN THEY WENT...

THEY, THEY BLEW THE PLACE DOWN THEY WOULD GET ENTHUSIASTIC THEY'D START LOOKING AT EACH OTHER AND APPLAUDING EACH OTHER WHEN THEY PLAYED OFF WOULD COME THE COATS, THEN THE TIES AND UH...

IT WAS A WONDERFUL TO HEAR A BAND I REMEMBER STAN KENTON I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND I FELT UH, PRETTY GROWN UP BEING OUT THERE AND HOPED MY MOTHER DIDN'T FIND OUT WHERE I WAS A GREAT BIG DANCE FLOOR THERE WOULD BE... A HUNDRED PEOPLE OUT THERE, I THINK AND A LOT OF FOLKS FROM GEORGETOWN COLLEGE SCOTT COUNTY WAS DRY YOU KNOW, THEY'D COME OVER OH, AND YOU KNOW, LOTS OF SMOKE AND EVERYBODY WAS DRINKING EXCEPT MYSELF AH... OF COURSE IT WAS WONDERFUL, WE JUST HAD A GREAT TIME WITH IT YOU KNOW, WITH YOUTH AND HORMONE FLOWING AND THE WHISKEY FLOWING AND UH, IT WAS A GREAT TIME AND PRETTY GIRLS ALWAYS WERE PRETTY GIRLS (Music playing) (Music playing) ON SATURDAY AFTERNOONS WE'D GO DOWN TO THE ZEBRA BAR I DON'T REMEMBER DANCING IN THE ZEBRA LOUNGE IS THAT ENOUGH TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE ZEBRA LOUNGE?

I WASN'T ALLOWED TO GO TO THE ZEBRA OR TO A PLACE DOWN THE ROAD CALLED THE DRAKE HOTEL AND WE'D ALL HAVE JAM SESSIONS AND OF COURSE THAT WAS THE POPULAR... THAT WAS THE KID'S MUSIC OF THE DAY IT WAS THE COUNTERCULTURE MUSIC SO THE PLACE WAS FULL FULL OF COLLEGE KIDS DRINKING, YOU KNOW BEER, EVERYWHERE, BEER WAS FLOWING LIKE MAD AND UH, THE MUSIC WAS GREAT WE HAD... YOU HAD TO PLAY TO BE ABLE TO COME TO THE JAM SESSIONS SO, ONE DAY, HERE WE ARE AT THE DRAKE HOTEL DRAKE HOTEL WAS...

I'D SAY THAT, UH FROM TIME TO TIME PEOPLE OF VERY FEW MORALS UH, WOULD FREQUENT THE PLACE AND UH, ENJOY THEMSELVES TREMENDOUSLY THERE ARE SOME OF THESE PLACES THAT MY PARENTS WOULDN'T LET ME GO BUT UH, THAT'S WHERE BYRON HAPPENED TO BE PLAYING THAT AFTERNOON WITH THIS GROUP Romanowitz: UPSTAIRS, ALL KINDS OF SIN IS GOING ON BUT DOWNSTAIRS, IN THAT BAR EXCEPT FOR THE FEW RUMMIES THE PLACE WAS TAKEN OVER BY, BY COLLEGE STUDENTS AND WE WERE PLAYING, ALL OF A SUDDEN I'M ON THE STAND AND A BRIGHT LIGHT HITS MY EYES AND WE FOUND OUT THAT THAT HELEN DYCE IRVIN JOHN IRVIN'S EX-WIFE HAD BEEN THERE AND WROTE A, SHE WROTE A STORY IN THE UH IN THE HERALD-LEADER AND MY WIFE TOOK A PHOTOGRAPHER UP THERE AND THE NEXT DAY THE LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER HAD A PICTURE OF THIS JAZZ GROUP FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY PLAYING AT THE DRAKE HOTEL Romanowitz: AND WE WERE ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE HERALD-LEADER WELL, ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE Irvin: AND AS A RESULT BYRON MAY NOT HAVE TOLD YOU THIS BUT THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MUSIC DEPARTMENT STAMPED "NO, NO, NO" ON A LOT OF GOODIES THAT WERE GOING ON Romanowitz: I HAD TO APOLOGIZE TO THE DEAN OF MEN THE, THE HEAD OF THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT DISAVOWED JAZZ COMPLETELY THERE WASN'T GOING TO BE ANYTHING LIKE THAT PLAYED HE SAID NONE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY UH, FACULTY EVER PLAY IN JAZZ BANDS OF COURSE ABOUT FIVE OR SIX OF THEM HAD BEEN IN THERE, YOU KNOW I WAS IN THE PHI BETA ALPHA MUSIC FRATERNITY WE HAD OUR BIG CONCERT PLANNED UH, WE HAD ROY HARRIS WRITING A SONG FOR... A NUMBER, A PIECE FOR US THEY CANCELED THE WHOLE THING AND WE WERE REALLY... WE WERE DUBBED "THE OUTLAW BAND" TO THIS DAY UH, CLAIMS THAT UH, MY FORMER WIFE IT WAS HER FAULT IT WASN'T HER FAULT, OH, MY GR- ALL SHE DID WAS GO DOWN AND DO WHAT... BYRON'S KIDDING ME SHE GOT RID OF ME AND WENT ON TO HARVARD LAW SCHOOL SHE WAS A SMART GIRL NOW OF COURSE, 50 YEARS... WHAT WAS IT?

50 YEARS LATER I HAVE DONE TWO CONCERTS ONE 1993 AND ONE IN THE YEAR 2000 AT U OF K WITH MILES OSLAND AND ALL THESE OTHER PEOPLE AND WE'RE THE OUTLAW BAND WE'RE THE LAST VESTIGES OF WHAT WAS LEFTOVER OF A OF A CRAZY TIME, BELIEVE ME (Music playing) (Music playing) (Music playing) WE'VE RECEIVED A BARREL OF REQUESTS FROM THE PACIFIC THEATER FOR A CERTAIN WELL-KNOWN PARTY STATIONED IN SEATTLE AND WE THINK SHE SHOULD INTRODUCE HERSELF (Music playing) ♪ MISS JILL AND THE GI JIVES HI YA, FELLOWS THIS IS GI JILL WITH GI JIVE SORT OF A SPECIAL EDITION TODAY, FELLOWS IN ANSWER TO YOUR REQUEST JUST TIME FOR TWO THINGS A FAVORITE TUNE AND A QUICK REMINDER TO SEND ME A PICTURE OF YOU THAT'S RIGHT A PICTURE OF YOU FOR MY PINUP BOY COLLECTION DON'T FORGET, HUH?

NOW HERE'S THAT TUNE I WAS TALKING ABOUT "HALLELUJAH" (Playing "Hallelujah") (Playing "Hallelujah") (Playing "Hallelujah") [Closed captioning by the KET Caption Center] [was made possible by a grant] [from the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels] [and in part by a grant from The Lexington Lions Club] [and a gift from the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation] WELL, FELLOWS, THAT JUST ABOUT WINDS UP THIS MINIATURE EDITION OF GI JIVE THANKS A MILLION FOR REQUESTING A LOOK AT ME 'TIL TOMORROW, WHEN I'LL BE GI JIVING YOUR WAY THIS IS JILL, SAYING úGOOD MORNING,' TO SOME OF YOU úGOOD AFTERNOON' TO SOME MORE OF YOU AND TO THE REST OF YOU, úGOOD NIGHT'