Friday, March 6, 2015
The Swing Kings, OAC 58 <div> <font size="3">As for Mac Taylor, my memories of him will always be linked to our sophomore year, 1955/56, and our band "The Swing Kings". I distinctly remember Mac at the drums, Jack Sargent (ducktail and all) at the piano, Bill Babitt at the clarinet, Garth "Hot Lips" Smith at the trumpet, Paul Ferris at the banjo, and myself at the accordeon. </font></div> <div> </div> <div> <font size="3">Honed by our appearances at various year parties and Junior Farmers dances and buoyed by the acclaim of our fans at OAC, Mac, and OVC, we entered College Royal in 1955 in the class of "Other Musical Performances". The judge happened to be a music professor from Toronto, whose sparse and rather caustic comment - "well, that was a lot of drum whacking" - we thought, missed out on a lot of the finer points of our rendering of "When the Saints go marching in". - Needless to say, we never entered College Royal again.</font></div> <div> </div> <div> <font size="3">Dear Bill, please, pass on my sympathy to Jayne and to Mac's family and friends. For me, his memory will continue to shine as vivid as ever.</font></div> <div> </div> <div> <font size="3">Your freshman and sophomore classmate</font></div> <div> </div> <div> <font size="3">Jork Sellschopp</font></div>
