Chick Singer Rocks Bahnhof's

It is always a party when Michelle Hoge — the Floodster whom the late Joe Dobbs years ago lovingly dubbed “Duh Chick Singer”— is in the room, and she was very much in the room Thursday evening for the band’s latest visit to Huntington’s Bahnhof WVrsthaus & Biergarten.Actually this wasn’t Michelle first time to perform at the wonderful 7th Avenue venue. Back in 2017, she was among the Floodsters who played in the beer garden on a spring evening soon after the cool cafe open.But this week’s performance was her first time since the band has recently started regular visits to the South Side’s favorite spot, and it was an epic evening as Pamela’s video above illustrates.About the SongMichelle’s song in the video is the jazz standard “My Blue Heaven,” which Walter Donaldson wrote one afternoon in 1927 at New York’s Friars Club while he was waiting for his turn at the pool table. Later George A. Whiting wrote those clever lyrics just so he could perform it in his vaudeville act with Sadie Burt.It was a big number in 1935 for Jimmie Lunceford and a huge hit in 1956 for New Orleans’ Fats Domino. In fact, in the near century since it was written, “My Blue Heaven” has been recorded by everyone from Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra to Coleman Hawkins to Leon Redbone. For more about the song’s history, check out this earlier Flood Watch article. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com