Re: Tsimbls and their kin

[BarMusProd <BarMusProd...>]

Dear Owen,

In a message dated 7/3/99 12:59:27 AM, owend (at) tp(dot)net writes:

>Hi, Ilze.  Glad your search was fruitful.  I have an LP of the Chris 
Kalogerson
>ensemble, and also remember hearing them on an old Prarie Home Companion.
> I
>thought, on first hearing the name, that it was odd to have a Scandinavian
>leader
>for a Greek band.  Then I realized that the name must have been Anglicized,
>midwest-style, from something like "Kalogerakis," (indicating that some
>family
>patriarch had entered a monastery).  This is in cross-reference to the
>current
>thread about Julio Iglesias.
>
>Owen

Ironically enough (to me at least), Chris is an old friend. I used to job in 
his bands when I was a kid in college (I was a bass player in my youth). I 
haven't seen him in years, except periodically on local cable access with his 
family Greek band. Chris is very definitely Greek, and a drummer. Now I am 
curious too as to what his real name was. I think that he would be pleased to 
know that his name is being bandied about on the Jewish Music list (I once 
supplied him with a stock of Jewish songs that could be played at weddings 
and bar mitzvahs).

I am also curious about my own name (come to think of it) which was something 
in Lithuanian and changed at Ellis Island. It sounds British, and there are 
some Jewish Barnetts in England, but I would be surprised if we were related 
(I once had a Jewish British cabby named Bernard Barnett take us to Gatwick 
when we were running late?he actually got Northwest to hold our flight till 
we got there. I was impressed, to say the least.)

Best wishes,
Steve

Steve Barnett
Composer/Arranger/Producer
Barnett Music Productions
BarMusProd (at) aol(dot)com 

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