Arrogance, Benny Carter and Santy Runyon (who each had none)

Man, I found a source for a chart on Prince's record Arrogance, which I barely knew, but which pretty well covers America's current position in the realpolitik. We're doing a canary audition tomorrow night and Jimmy's house.

I LOVE the itunes music store! I just bought the only tunes I LOVED on Maria Muldaur's Waitress on a Donut Shop, namely It Ain't the Meat (It's the Motion), which I wrote a chart of for Marilyn, and Squeeze Me, that wonderful Fats Waller tune. Both charts are by the legendary Benny Carter.

Dr Demento told me that Maria contacted him asking if he could recommend some tumes for the upcoming album which became Waitress, and he sent her a few, among them It Ain't the Meat, recorded by the Swallows (?) in 1952, back when you could only say things if you didn't come right out and SAY them. I had to thank him! And I sure thank Benny, who died last year.

Last year also saw the passing of Santy Runyon who was as old (and as loved) as Benny. Between them they did 188 years of saxophone innovation. I'm not making this up.