By Paul Goldfinger.  1st alto sax.

My college jazz band (FDU Rutherford) played a beauty pageant in Myrtle Beach, S. Carolina.  It was the “Miss Fun in the Sun” Festival.     We would have liked to mingle and have fun with the contestants, but we couldn’t get anywhere near them.

We ended the talent show with “Dixie”  (Which we had to learn overnight) and then drove a bus back to Jersey the next day.

In case you don’t know the words to “Dixie:”     “I wish I were in  the land of cotton; old times there are ne’re forgotten.  Look away…..”    Everyone stood and everyone knew the words;  except we.   —

“After the Ball is Over” by Barbara Cook at Lincoln Center.  From the Broadway show:  “Showboat.”