Saturday, September 20, 2014

Windjammers! #11


2 comments:

Harry Kingston said...

What a circus character but one of the best, Boom Boom Browning.
I got to know Boom though R. H. Bubba Voss from Orange, Texas.
Both on the Ringling 1955 band and the stories he would tell.
Bubba said he knew all the big shots in New York and got them in many a show.
Could he play those drums and I am the proud owner of some of his autographed drum sticks.
Gone but not forgotten as he lead the Beatty Cole band for many years and what great circus music they produced.
Harry in Texas

Roger Smith said...

As stated here before, Boom and I became fast friends on the Beatty show. Being fellow Texans was the key. There have been, thankfully, great drummers on circus bandstands, who understood the separate discipline of show-drumming, and none were better than Boom.