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Never try to teach a pig how to sing. It's a waste of time and it annoys the pig. -- Paul Dickson
posted by TPR | 5:42 PM
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Your editor has been a musician for many decades. He started the first band his Quaker school ever had and played drums with bands up until 1980 when he switched to stride piano. He had his own band until the mid-1990s and has played with the New Sunshine Jazz Band, Hill City Jazz Band, Not So Modern Jazz Band and the Phoenix Jazz Band.
Here are a few tracks:
SAM SMITH'S DECOLAND BAND
PHOENIX JAZZ BAND
APEX BLUES 
Sam
playing with the Phoenix Jazz Band at the Central Ohio Jazz festival
in 1990. Joining the band is George James on sax. James, then
84, had been a member of the Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller
orchestras and hadappeared on some 60 records. More
notes on James
WISER MAN Sam
piano & vocal
OH MAMA Sam piano & vocal
2 Comments:
I believe Dickson merely compiled that aphorism, earlier placed into print by the late Robert Heinlein who attributed what was originally an Ozark folk saying to his fictional character Lazarus Long, né Woodrow Wilson Smith.
This inspired the Canadian writer Cordelia Strube, whose 1996 novel is called "Teaching Pigs to Sing".
Harper-Collins, ISBN 0-00-648098-5
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