Am I the only person lame enough to make fun of Bill Gates every time I catch a Microsoft product behaving in a less than perfect manner? I wouldn’t be surprised.
I was listening to music on my computer, using the Microsoft “Music” program, which tells you not only the artist you’re listening to but the particular tune and the composer. I was listening to Zoot Sims, playing a big band tune, “9:20 Special,” which “Music” credited to “Chief Justice Earl Warren.” Really?
Well, not really. In the first place, it’s “Earle Warren,” not “Earl.” Earle Warren played alto sax with the original Count Basie band back in the mid-thirties and wrote for it too. “9:20 Special”, now eighty years old, is still a fairly popular tune. Somewhere, I’m sure, there is an explanation for the title, which (probably) refers to either a train or a radio program, but I can’t find it. I’m sure both Earle and the Count (and perhaps even the Chief Justice) would get a kick out of this performance, by The New Wave Jazz Orchestra 2011, which operates out of Osaka University in Japan.
There is today the “9:20 Special” club in San Francisco, which features swing dancing, but I understand from “Valerie O”, who effing loves the Lindy Hop, that “the male population is sweaty and awkward.” Like that’s unusual?
