Today’s post comes as the world recovers from the insane
goings on witnessed in Washington this week. The open call to arms (‘we’ll be
there with you’, the Cheeto-coloured manchild raged. No you were not, you
cowardly orangutan) from the 45th President is something none of us
have witnessed before. Sadly, as well as resulting in the deaths of four people
and injuries to many others, this massively overshadowed what happened in Georgia,
where Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff defeated Republican incumbents Kelly
Loeffler and David Perdue, handing control of the Senate, the House of
Representatives and the White House to the Democrats for the first time since
2009. Warnock, a Baptist pastor, becomes the first black senator for Georgia and
only the eleventh black member of the Senate in US history.
Eleven. Eleven out of something like 2,000. Incredible.
Peter Gabriel Gianquinto was born in August 1921, in
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and was known primarily as a Louis Armstrong
impressionist; in fact he was the only imitator to play on the same stage with Armstrong,
which he did on several occasions. He died in March 2003 after a short illness,
just three years after issuing his only album, A Tribute to Louis Armstrong.
The lyrics were written by Quinto, Shirley Spilmon and Mike Vallo and the tune for both versions was composed by Vincent Chiarelli, owner of Vincent Records, which was established in Illinois in the late 1960s and still in operation today, with grandson Vince Chiarelli at the helm. The team of Chiarelli, Quino and Spilmon composed at least two other songs, Find Yourself a Girl (and Fall in Love), and The Greatest Treasure, which was copyrighted at the same time as Mr Democrat.
Here’s the original version, complete with spoken
introduction, and the mostly-instrumental flip side.
Enjoy!
Download Democrat HERE
Download Instrumental HERE
This is a piece of my hometown history! How cool to stumble across this today!
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