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Harmonica Highlights July 2018 HARMONICA HIGHLIGHTS JULY 2018 www.milehighharmonicaclub.com Dick Paige MHHC President And Now........... The News July is here and our annual picnic with it on July 8. JULY CLUB SCHEDULE Bring friends and family. Club brings plates and uten- sils, drinks and cups. Bring something to share. Infor- mation included in the newsletter. July 8, 1:00 p.m. July 22 song is a "traveling" song. August 26 song is Cornerstone Park "coming home" song and for September a song that Prentice Ave. and Hickory St. features "whistling". Littleton Those going to SPAH keep in mind that before the Sat- urday concert let us gather with any other Coloradans for a photo op. Have a lot of fun, join in the jams, July 22 1:30 p.m. get on stage or just sit and listen. Get your fill of the seminars and enjoy the exhibitors’ booths. Re-new ac- Club Meeting quaintances. Historic Grant Avenue I am doing the "bass" seminar. Wish me luck! 216 S. Grant Street, Denver See on the 8th!! 2018 Officers Dick Paige President….……...……..Dick Paige 720-220-1931 [email protected] Vice President ….......Scott Paulding 303-237-8774 Secretary…...……Freddy Alexander 720-298-9445 Treasurer……….…...Lloyd Johnson 303-366-2422 Member-At-Large….Lloyd Williams 303-404-2219 Newsletter Editor…........Nancy Bale 303-829-6465 MHHC – June 10, 2018 Open Mic - Lloyd Johnson “Anytime” Lloyd Williams “The Happy Wanderer” Tim Winkelman, Roger Bale, Ken Moyer “Humoreske,” “Going Home” Greg Coffey ad lib Chris Wallace “Sixteen Tons” Barry Staver “Puff the Magic Dragon” Richard Keller “Missouri Waltz,” “Home on the Range” Ed Martin “Back Home Again” Jim Kummer Beatles Medley Bernie Lopez “Amor, Amor, Amor” Fritz Fox “Fuca Misteriosa” Freddie Alexander “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” Ken Moyer “Waltz of the Roses” Freddie Alexander, Greg Coffey, Bernie Lopez “Don’t You Lie to Me” Chris Wallace MHHC - June 24, 2018 Open Mic - Lloyd Johnson “Have You Ever Been Lonely Roger Bale and Tim Winkelman “Could I Have This Dance” Myron Wilson “Haberrero,” “Old Standards Never Die, They Just Fade Away” Steve Van Dyke (New Member!) “Poor Wayfaring Stranger” Scott Paulding “In the Summer Time” Chris Doughty “Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling” Greg Coffey and Chris Doughty “In a Sentimental Mood” Greg Coffey and Chris Wallace “Make Me a Pallet” Vonnie C’de Baca “What a Wonderful World” Barry Staver and Paul Davies “Jamaican Farewell” Freddie Alexander “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms,” “Rock Me Mama” Chris Wallace “Whiskey Lullaby”, 3 parts of Jambalaya” Fritz Fox “Tenderly Paul Davies and Ed Martin “El Paso” Paul Davies “The Sunset Waltz,” F sharp version of an Indian Flute Tune Bill Kawamura “Please Release Me,” “My Happiness” Judy Parker (guest) and Paul Davies A blues progression Group Songs: “Caissons” and “Anchors Away” Mile High Harmonica Club Picnic Sunday, July 8, 2018 — 1:00 p.m. Cornerstone Park Littleton, CO Directions: From Santa Fe – Go East on Belleview to Windermere Street. -- or -- From Broadway – Go West on Belleview to Windermere Street. Go South on Windermere Street to Prentice Ave. (Stop light) Do not turn into Cornerstone Park from Windermere Street. Turn East (Left) on Prentice Ave. Turn North (Left) on Hickory Street. Turn West (Left) into Cornerstone Park. Go through the parking lot to the Senior Shelter. We will get started about 1:00 pm. Bring your own meat for grilling. There is one grill on site. If you want to avoid waiting in line, you might want to bring your own grill. Also bring a side dish: salad, veggies or desserts to share. Soft Drinks, paperware and plastic utensils will be provide by the club. A few extra chairs would also be welcome, and be sure to prepare your best numbers for open mic. For those who have never enjoyed one of these parties, it is one of the “don't miss” events of the year. This is a family event, so bring the gang!! Les Paul played Harmonica? This article is reprinted from St. Louis Gateway Harmonica Club Newsletter written by Ernie Roberts Les Paul, often referred to as the Wizard of Waukesha or the Thomas Edison of Rock and Roll, started his music career playing the harmonica. One day, eight-year-old Les was watching a road crew working in the street in front of his house. When lunchtime came, one of the ditchdiggers pulled a harmon- ica out of his lunch pail and began blowing one sweet-sounding tune after an- other. Les ran outside and plopped down as close as he could to the laborer. After playing several songs the worker noticed that the boy seemed to be mes- merized by the music. He placed the mouth organ in Les’s hands and told him to give it a try. “I can’t play,” Les stammered. “Don’t say you can’t ‘till you’ve proved you can’t,” said the laborer. Les tried to play it a little bit and then had trouble persuading his mother let him keep the harmonica. She couldn’t bear the thoughts of little Les putting his lips on a harmonica that some dirt-encrusted ditchdigger had used. So, she boiled it in a pot of steaming wa- ter. Les later learned that the waterlogged harmonica gave him a bubbly, bluesy sound which was different than all the other kids who had harmonicas could play. He practiced many long hours and within the year won first- place in the Parent-Teacher Association talent contest. He liked to listen to the Grand Ole Opry on the radio station WSM (We Shield Millions – the National Life and Accident Insurance Company’s motto) from Nashville, Tennessee, on his mother’s radio. One of the favorite musicians was Deford Bailey, the Opry’s first black star, who was noted for his smoky, bluesy harmonica sound. Les practiced long and hard trying to imitate the sounds emanating from the radio. When he felt confident, he started performing around Waukesha. Later he acquired a banjo and taught himself to strum it and sing some of the hillbilly songs which were popular then. He heard Nick Lucas and Eddie Lang playing guitar on the radio and decided he had to have one. Claud J. Moye (better known as Pie Plant Pete) played guitar and a double reed harmonica held in place with a U-shaped shoulder brace made out of No. 9 wire. He had a radio program on Chi- cago’s WLS (the World’s Largest Store - Sears-Roebuck owned station) -Saturday Night Barn Dance and also an afternoon program called The Dinner Bell. Les rarely missed listening to his shows and anytime Pie Plant had a performance within 50 miles of Waukesha, Les persuaded his mother to take him. After sitting in the front row at a couple of his concerts, Pie Plant recognized them and invited them back stage and began to show Les how to play a few chords on the guitar. So Les began trying to imitate Pie Plant’s playing on both the guitar and harmon- ica. He eventually designed his harmonica brace, so he could flip it over with chin, thus being able to play both the C and G sides of his harmonica without taking his hands off the guitar. One night one of his buddies told him about a guitar player named Sunny Joe Wolverton who was playing all up and down the fretboard with a band at a nearby club. Of course, Les went along to see what all the fuss was about. When he saw and heard Sunny Joe, he was fascinated and couldn’t get over hearing notes coming out of the guitar when Sunny Joe’s right hand didn’t move, using a technique called “left-handed pizzicato.” Sunny Joe was impressed with the boy’s eagerness and began to show him various licks and ruffs. Sunny Joe left that band to start a job in St. Louis at KMOX radio (K because it was west of the Mississippi, MO since it was located in Mis- souri, and X because their first broadcast was on Christmas day). Les was asked to take Sunny Joe’s place in the band and he toured with them for a while. Then Sunny Joe was asked to put together a hillbilly band for a new program on KMOX – “Farm Folks Hour” and he asked Les to join him. The group was known as Sunny Joe Wol- verton and his Scalawags and Les played his guitar, a jug and the harmonica. Sunny Joe gave him the nickname “Rhubarb Red.” Of course, Les was observing everything that Sunny Joe did on that guitar and learning a lot. He would practice hours on end to be able to replicate the sounds his mentor was making. Sunny Joe bought Les a Gibson L-50 (a budget arch-top). continued... Next Sunny Joe and “Rhubarb Red” moved to Springfield, Missouri with KWTO (Keep Watching the Ozarks) and changed their name to the Ozark Apple Knockers. Sunny Joe then bought Les a Gibson L-5 (a professional instrument and the most expensive in Gibson’s line). Les had a phonographic memory and his agile fingers allowed him to imitate whatever sounds he heard. They eventually split up and “Rhubarb Red” moved to Chicago to perform there. He began going to some of the honky tonks and clubs there and listened to the blues and jazz music then coming into vogue. Then he was on his way to bigger and better things. From time to time he would pull out his har- monica during a performance to remind himself of the “good old days.” Of course, Les went on to make many modifications to his guitar and created some amazing recording tech- niques which have been credited with enabling the rock and roll phenomenon and making the guitar a professed instrument in many different styles of music.
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