On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 00:16:18 GMT, Wayne > wrote:

>Michael Odom > wrote in
:

>> The crowd was big enough that at times the noise of the converstations
>> was nearly deafening. Buncha yakkers. I played music (Blossom Deary,
>> Nick Lowe, The Flatlanders, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros), but
>> nobody noticed, I'm afraid.
>>
>> On the whole, I'd say the event was a success. And we have enough
>> leftovers that we won't have to cook for several days.
>>
>
>Michael, this sounds like it was a very successful and enjoyable event,
>and the food sounds divine! OMG, I haven't thought of Blossom Deary in
>years. I'll have to pull out some old vinyl!

I don't know about anybody else, but I had a good time. Well, I know
that D enjoyed herself, too. And our Wichita friends, who stayed the
night, said thet liked the event, also. They were great -- just
barged ahead into a crowd of people they'd never seen before. Turns
out one Wichita budy studied printmaking with somebody who was the
student of another guest.

Blossom D's music has been re-released on CD. The disk I spun was "My
Gentleman Friend" on the Verve label, and I misspelled her surname.
It's Dearie, not Deary. Regardless, she made music that perfectly
complements our "Atomic Age" house in style and substance. "You
Fascinate Me So" is very nearly a perfect song.

The previous lady of the house was the highest paid hoofer on Broadway
in 1948. She met the man of the house (an architect and scion of a
locally "important" family) at a USO show and moved here with him
around 1952. Broadway to Cow Hill must have been a heluva transition.
She taught tap dance and synchronized swimming to local starlet
wannabes in the 50s and 60s.

Somehow, Blossom Dearie seems apropos chez Odom. If only somebody had
noticed last night!


modom

"Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eyes."
-- Jimmie Dale Gilmore