Rene mused:
> For me an amusing
> coincidence is that a character in THE DEADLY
PERCHERON whistles "Pistol
> Packin' Mama" which, IIRC, was a hit for Spade
Cooley, western swing
> bandleader & erstwhile minor Elroy
character.
Spade may have done it (as did everyone from Bing Crosby to
Glen Miller's AAF band--complete with strings and a harp),
but the massive hit was by Al Dexter and his Troopers.
BTW, the earliest literary reference to Spade I've come
across is a mention in a short story in John O'Hara's
collection *Hellbox*. Just bit of trivia to clutter your
brain.
> (Spade had a bass player
> who was a dog lover, in as literal a sense as Elroy
could make it. Just
> thought I'd throw that in, re: hardboiled
cats'n'dogs threads of the
> past).
Poor ol' Deuce Spriggens--a perfectly normal, decent guy
who's legacy is as an unsavory character in a James Ellroy
novel ... it ain't fair, I tells ya!
Jim Stephenson, western swing cono-seur
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