Dick Wellstood - Squeeze Me

Text by Dick Wellstood:

"Another Waller tune, this one for some reason or given a variety of off-color nicknames by
older musicians."

About this Album:
"I made my last solo album for Riverside in 1954, a ten-inch LP which fell dead-born from
the press without reaching such distinction as even to excite a murmer among the zealots.
This new album was recorded in New York between November 1970 and March 1971, in part at the
home of Sherman Fairchild and in part at Sudios 58 at 150W. 58th St. The recording was done
amiably and patiently by Hank O'Neil, using a wire recorder powered by a "Jazz"critic on a
tradmill. Use a cactus needle only.

About Dick Wellstood:
Dick Wellstood was born in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1927. He has worked with such bands as
those of Bob Wilber, Jimmy Archey, Eddie Condon, Roy Eldridge, Sol Yaged, Red Allen, Gene
Krupa and The Dukes of Dixieland. In 1966 he took a summer Job at the Ferryboat in Briell,
N.J. and got stranded there. He is currently (March 1971) working happily in a hotel in
Lakewood, N.J. Dick has recorded with Odetta, Bob Dylan, Sidney Bechet, Bob Wilber, Fred
Karlin, Conrad Janis, Tony Parenti, Clark Terry and many others.
Dick enjoys his Cinelli road-racing bicycle and is a devoted chess player with a library of
some 250 chess books but only a Class "C" rating. The music of Charles Ives and Elliot
Carter is his currently musical enthusiasm but this is subject to change at any time. He
studied piano with Albion Metcalf in Boston and Richard McClanahan in New York, neither of
whom should be held responsible for any clumsy playing in this album.

Cover photo by Al McManus
Recording by Hank O'Neil