Thursday, June 10, 2010

From Buckles


SAVE1223, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

According to my sources Water For Elephants will have some real circus music in parts of the films score.
They have obtained rights to use some Alexander and Jewell compositions.
Kindest regards,
Chuck Schlarbaum

Posted by Buckles at 6/10/2010 05:48:00 AM

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hammond organ, no air calliope, 1941 or later.

10 June, 2010 09:12
Anonymous said...

Alexander never got the credit he should in the music world for his wonderful marches! Could be that he didn't write a million marches and what he wrote are a challenge for the average band.
Carl

10 June, 2010 12:35
Buckles said...

In this picture I see Mr. Evans at right has been cropped out.
Also this is happening to the text of some entries.
Is this limited to my computer or is it apparent to all viewers?

10 June, 2010 13:22
Don said...

Hi Buckles,

Merle is still on the bandstand (far right) when I look at this one.

Don Covington

10 June, 2010 14:42
Harry Kingston said...

This the 1955 season as a dear friend of mine was on the show that year who was R. H.(Bubba) Voss on the second row 2nd person. Bubba lived in Orange, Texas just about 20 miles from me.
Then another friend and a real circus character was Boom Boom Browning. Who was one hell of a great drummer on Ringling and Clyde Beatty Cole Bros for many years.
I met Boom through Bubba as they were life long friends.
Harry in Texas

10 June, 2010 17:00
Roger Smith said...

OFF SUBJECT:

Today marks the 108th anniversary of the birth of Clyde Raymond Beatty, born Tuesday, June 10, 1902, in Bainbridge, Ross County, Ohio. Over more than 40 years, I settled among those convinced his birth occurred in 1903, and set it down in articles for the circus press, and in memorial ads I've placed. This seemed conclusive when I held a paper written by his sister and signed by his mother stating 1903. When I first visited Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills not long after his death, I was startled to find the year 1902 on his mausoleum marker. My immediate question was how his widow, Jane, could have authorized the wrong date. So certain I was of 1903, I had not taken into consideration that Mr. Beatty's wife of 14 years would have accurate information from deep within her husband's records. Among them resides his passport application whereon truthful information is demanded under pain of perjury, and he entered June 10, 1902. Corroborating his plaque's inscription is the data noted in the International Genealogical Index, confirming 1902as the year of birth. As accepted with this man shrouded by legend, the researcher becomes accustomed to the nettlesome wisp of mystery lingering amidst a mother's claim, an offcial record that entered the birth a year before, and the widow's affirmation at interment.

10 June, 2010 20:24
Roger Smith said...

Right, Harry. Our friend, Boom is right up there where you'd expect him, Top Center.

10 June, 2010 20:29
Chic Silber said...

William "Boom Boom" Browning was

a great show drummer & bandleader

despite the fact that he never

learned to read music (fact)

I think he could chew that short

stub of a cigar for about a week

He became a Slingerland rep for

several years while still doing

some show dates in retirement

10 June, 2010 21:15
Chic Silber said...

Buckles in regards to photos

being cropped on the right it

seems to depend on the machine

or the screen settings

When on my laptop this seems to

occur I only have to click on

the photo to have it show up

in it's full original size

In this case Merle is either in

or out but viewable this way

Isn't this the style of organ

that would utilize the "Leslie"

cabinet with the revolving horn

10 June, 2010 21:25
Ole Whitey said...

I hate to repeat myself, but no birth certificate for Clyde Beatty has ever been found. All sources of birthdates including the Genealogical index are based either on his mother's memory or on other possibly less reliable hearsay.

Beatty's applying for a passport was not done in an official document. He wrote friend in Washington who had gotten Beatty's first passport for him years earlier, included recent photos of himself and Jane, and gave several bits of information which we know were not true (although they have been widely quoted as gospel), and asked the friend to use this information to renew his passport.

This all comes down to our having to pick and choose whom to believe. I pick the mother. We know that Jane had some facts about her husband confused and this may or may not have been one of them. You may pick any source you wish but at this late date they are all hearsay.

11 June, 2010 12:14
Chic Silber said...

To Whitey & Roger

DOES IT REALLY MATTER

He was "The One & Only" regardless

11 June, 2010 12:40
Roger Smith said...

CHIC: It matters, indeed. When we lose our drive for accuracy, future researchers look at our material and think they've got it. An example is the two-part article on Beatty currently in print that is fraught with error. Another is an earlier feature article on him in a regional magazine. This author took the incorrect information Ole Whitey referred to on the passport request and used it as fact.

It got my attention today in looking up coverage of his 1951 marriage to Jane, that she listed her age as 28, which was true, and he told the court, and nosy reporters, he was 49. If he was coming clean this time, that puts him born in 1902. That he would state an accurate age on his marriage license, but give wildly varying ages just about everywhere else, is one reason I believe that wherever he is, he's smiling.

12 June, 2010 07:50
Buckles said...

My father died in 1963 at the age of 59. He was born in 1904.
Everyone thought he was much older, no doubt due to his poor vision and serious demeanor.
He mentioned to me several times that he was younger than both Clyde Beatty and Arky Scott.
I assumed that he had gathered this information first hand.

12 June, 2010 15:14

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