DANCES WITH NAZIS

People get so sick that I can't help but laugh. "Charlie & His Orchestra" was nazi propaganda targeted to demoralize Allied soldiers who missed swing music from their homelands. There is an "underground" of jazz fans today who get perverse kicks out of the band's admitted musicianship.

Many of the players heard went on to successful postwar careers in jazz. It's been reported that, after some traveling, "Charlie", Karl Schwedler (1902-1973), died in Germany. Other sources claim he emigrated to and died in the USA.

These are all spins on American pop songs with special, perverted lyrics.

F. D. R. JONES

ST. LOUIS BLUES

LET'S GO SLUMMING