[HHFi]

Sad news. I graduated North Texas State (home of the NTSU One O'Clock Lab Band) in 1980, and most of my friends and roommates were jazz musicians. Maynard Ferguson was huge at that time and place. Most people know him for "Rocky" or his cameos on "King of the Hill," but his albums were played all the time on KNTU, the campus radio station where I worked.

This news reminds me of a joke that everyone knew back in the days when Leon Breedon was the leader of the One O'Clock Jazz Band: A jazz musician dies and goes to Heaven. An angel is showing him around and takes him into a beautiful theater where an amazing band is playing jazz. Charlie Parker is on sax, Benny Goodman is on clarinet, Louis Armstrong is playing trumpet. The musician points at the man leading the band and asks in an awestruck voice, "That person leading the band...Is...Is that Leon Breedon?!"

The angel replies, "No, that's God. He just thinks He's Leon Breedon."

[Heyworth]

I heard pretty much the same joke about Lee Iaccoca. Henry Ford II dies and goes to heaven. At the gate he says, "Is Lee Iaccoca here? I'm not coming in if Lee Iaccoca's here." St. Peter assures him that Iaccoca isn't there. As they walk down the street of heaven, a giant Chrysler New Yorker limo passes. "I thought you said Lee Iaccoca wasn't here." "That's God. He just thinks he's Lee Iaccoca."

[SF Republican]

KNTU - When I was in Dallas use to pick that up at night - sweet. Is the One O'Clock Lab Band still running? The Going Band from Raider Land (Texas Tech marching band) was a great show in the 60-80's but I understand it has dropped off a bit.