Djangomania!

Teddy Dupont

Here's a nice photo of the young Babik complete with goatee beard (a youthful rebellion against the mandatory moustache perhaps?). I'd ask Ted who else he can recognise in the photo but I'm frightened he might get tetchy with me again if he misses anyone.

Barengero

ok Teddy,
the adults are Naguine, Babik, Jo Privat and Little Richard (who played the violin on "Manouche Partie") if this is a quiz.
The children i think are members of the famous Trapp family.

Babik was very often mistaken for Diz Dizley during that period.

Master class question: Who are the persons on the record sleeve in Babiks hand?

Best,
Barengero

Teddy Dupont

Barengero wrote:

ok Teddy,
the adults are Naguine, Babik, Jo Privat and Little Richard (who played the violin on "Manouche Partie") if this is a quiz.
The children i think are members of the famous Trapp family.

Babik was very often mistaken for Diz Dizley during that period.

Master class question: Who are the persons on the record sleeve in Babiks hand?

Best,
Barengero

Pretty impressive Barengero. Your only mistake is that it was the Little Richard who later recorded "Good Golly Miss Molly".

Now let's see who is on that cover. Well Jo Privat is a bit of a giveaway.

Barengero

Ha! As I said: The Trapp Family!

Best,
Barengero

trumbology

So is that the original 10-inch, 10-song Manouche Partie album cover from 1960 ? I just have the CD reissue. The booklet says

"First released in 1960 under the title Manouche Partie, it went through several editions and a change of name to Hommage à Django -- logical, if banal....The photograph which adorns the sleeve of the original has also been through some interesting changes. It shows a group of figures around the door of a Travellers' "van". In the centre sits Jo Privat with Babik and "Jeannot le gaucher" on either side, each holding a guitar, and behind him Django's second wife Naguine. The third figure, holding a guitar, seen in profile, is Matelot Ferret. Behind Privat stands another guitarist Jacques Montaigne, without his instrument....As it happens, neither Jeannot nor Babik was involved in the recording and a later version of the picture, striving no doubt for a different kind of historical accuracy, removes Babik, gives Montange a guitar, and brings in a violinist."

I've read this article, an edited version of a 1984 essay from a Tango magazine, several times and always wondered why they bothered to reprint this lengthy discription of the first cover and not actually show the photo in question! (But the photo with Little Richard and the Von Trapps, that one they did include in the booklet).

Now I can die at piece with this Jo Privat business.

Neil

Teddy Dupont

trumbology wrote:

Now I can die at piece with this Jo Privat business.

Good news indeed!

Here are a couple of the others. The big question is what the hell did the graphic people do to Jo Privat's hair on the "Hommage" cover? They must have anticipated the quite incredible style he developed later.

I think this particular session had more different covers than tracks.

Barengero

Not to forget this version, on which Jacques Montagne is allowed to hold a guitar. And you see clearly Little Richard with his violin. It is the version trumbology mentioned,

Best,
Barengero

trumbology

Teddy Dupont wrote:

trumbology wrote:

Now I can die at piece with this Jo Privat business.

Good news indeed!

Teddy Dupont wrote:

Um, is this encouragement for me to go ahead and kick?

Teddy Dupont wrote:

Here are a couple of the others. The big question is what the hell did the graphic people do to Jo Privat's hair on the "Hommage" cover? They must have anticipated the quite incredible style he developed later.

I think this particular session had more different covers than tracks.

The clothes on all the people are the same, but Jo appears to have aged 35 years on that second shot. This is Twilight Zone time, this Manouche Partie.

n