Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Barnett/Wallace #3


4 comments:

Dick Flint said...

I wonder if this was an alternative to the side show band (minstrel or--popular at this time into the 1950s--a Hawaiian band). I recall an old bagpiper (but no Highland dancer or drummer) on Beatty-Cole toward the end of when it carried a side show). The loud piper, a big drum, and a pretty dancer showing plenty of leg was a good bally!
Anybody know when Beatty-Cole last carried a side show? And the manager?
Dick Flint
Baltimore

Paul Gutheil said...

Dick Flint asking a Circus question!?! What's this world coming too?

Be well Dick!

Paul

John Herriott said...

Cole had a hiwhyan band along with J band I believe. Maybe not cause half the big show band had to bally hoo the SS opening.johnny

Dick Flint said...

Paul, I only claim to know stuff for times before I was born. After 53 straight years of catching the Beatty show, it all blends together as one great pleasant memory--and you know how memory gets at our age!
Dick Flint
Baltimore