Sailing Down Chesapeake Bay - Harley Show Baltimore

[henkschwab]

there exists a recording of clancy hayes with the yerba buena jass band, songs like silver dollar, bimbo, alcoholic blues, st james inf., chesapeake, peoria and many more. anybody have it? please let me know, my copy is very bad.

regards henk at rinyhenk@kabelfoon.nl

[Beazers1]

I'm a Baltimore boy transplanted to Wisconsin, but I never got this tune out of my head. I started singing it to my kids as a bedtime song, and now sing it every night on demand to my two year old granddaughter. She's learning to sing along! Now who can help me find out the name of the disc jockey for the "Modern Jazz Hour" I think also on WBAL FM? Intro song was Mancini's "Snowfall" and he played great jazz from 10 to 11.

[billcurran3]

@Beazers1 Regarding the Modern Jazz Hour Was the disc jockey's name Mike James? Does anyone remember the Folk Music show On WBAL AM ? It only came on thursday night ran from 11:15 to 12:00 pm I believe it was hosted by Jack Wheeler. I use to listen in bed with my ear piece plugged in to my transistor radio.

[gidneyandcloyd]

I grew up in Baltimore and give Harley much of the credit for my love of jazz too. I listened to him for most of my high school years and when I was home from college but spent one college summer break in NH, where I just about had a fit when Harley left WBAL, which I could actually pick up at night, for another station, which I couldn't! I always got a kick out of the way he'd jump in in the middle of a solo and call out the soloist's name. "Johnny Hodges!"

[speedy45rpm]

Oh man, I love this. Growing up in the burbs of Philly I used to listen to WBAL a lot, both for Orioles games (I remember "Dugout Chatter" with Jim West and ads for Central Savings Bank and Esskay Quality Meats) and then The Harley Show. I was completely a rock and roll kid, but his introduction to jazz stayed with me. Wonderful memories of a song I never thought I would hear again. Thanks so much for posting.

[yopteeth]

In the early 1970's I picked up WBAL in Orange Co, NY on the AM skip - loved the Harley Show - wished I could have made it to B for one of those sandwiches

[BH21206]

On the eatery side of things-I still miss those barbecue subs of Harley's.. They were the best !

[WMAJ6]

I found the Harley Show theme song - Duke Ellington's "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" here on You Tube. Its the exact version I remember from back then. 

[WMAJ6]

Wonderful memories! As a kid I wore out many a transistor radio battery listerning to O's games and then the Harley Show with the radio under my pillow when I was supposed to be asleep. My parents could never figure out why I kept asking for new batteries. I learned to love jazz listening to Harley. Another great piece of Baltimore long gone. Thanks for posting this classic!

[ltdanno1]

Gentlemen, Do any of you happen to have an album called the Barrone Street 5 on the Manhatton Lable???

[deepgroovesounds]

@ltdanno1 Unfortunately I don't have that one. Don't think I've seen it before. Will be on the lookout for it. And I too would very much enjoy a Harleyburger at this moment!

[Bob10123456]

@ltdanno1 My dad had this album, but that was over 40 years ago. I have no idea what ever happened to all his records. I was a pre-teen when my dad started playing Clancy Hayes and Bob Scobey records. I sure did enjoy them! Sorry I don't have any of his records.

[ltdanno1]

Great era, I used to listen nightly to the Harley Show. Boy I could eat a harley burger just about now. Plus I just recently found a picture of the moonlight cruise boat "The Bay Belle"

[deepgroovesounds]

@ltdanno1 Mmmmmm..... Harley Burger......... I used to patronize the location on Allegheny Ave in Towson, just up from Oliver's Mens Wear... Speaking of the Bay Belle, I think that was the boat that our class from Towsontown Jr. High used to take on a field trip to Marshall Hall Amusement Park, until the year they canceled it because too many of us were caught the year before playing the one armed bandits.... ah, great memories of growing up in Baltymore....

[mldklh]

I love Clancy Hayes voice :-)

Got this track for years now with 22 others on a cd named Peoria.

[monteleone1010]

thanks for posting this. I've bean searching that song since 1971 (yes, 1971!!!!). I found that song 2 years ago on a jazz site, but it featured only 2:25 of it!! This version is complete. If I'm not mistaken, it is played by Bob Scobey & His Frisco Band . Thanks again...

[deepgroovesounds]

@monteleone1010 - This is the complete version recorded 11/06/51 that I pulled off of the original Good Time Jazz LP entitled "Bob Scobey's Frisco Jazz Band - The Scobey Story Vol. 1." It is not rare - I noticed several copies available on eBay, but the sellers appeared too lazy to list the song titles. It apparently was also issued on a CD # GTJCD 12032-2. My biggest difficulty was finding a copy in decent playable condition. Most copies got played alot!

[billcurran3]

Nightly,nightly,Once over lightly,ever so polititely.I still miss that grand old man and his great collection of jazz..One of my great "growing up in Bmore "memories.Thank you for this deepgroove. I know you know "Thing's aint what they used to be'

[deepgroovesounds]

@billcurran3 -Bill, in the words of Rex Barney, Thank youuuuuuuu... I'm sitting here knowing there was another favorite theme song of Harley, but didn't know the title. It was indeed "Things Ain't What they Used to Be." Several nice versions already up on youtube, but if I find the exact recording on an old Ellington LP I will post it. Again, many thanks for solving that mystery for me.

[gidneyandcloyd]

@deepgroovesounds And as I recall, that one was always preceded by a few bars of Louis Armstrong"s "When It's Sleepy Time Down South." I also recall another announcer introducing the show by saying it was time for "the greatest jazz show . . . in the USA!"