Some years ago the leader of a “big band” type orchestra decided he would like to have his orchestra do a tribute or a salute to an orchestra of an entirely different makeup.
Ron Harvey was at a radio station in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin and put together a really good band that played the “big band’ style of music which was far different than the typical Wisconsin dance band that played almost all what was called “old time” music, (polkas, waltzs, and a fox trot here and there).
THEY WERE GOOD, and Ron was a very good showman and promoter and his band gained in popularity until it was known far and wide throughout the Midwest.
He knew music however and wanted to pay tribute to a fellow musician that played that totally different style of music.
So he went to another band leader, (Don Peachy, Burnett WI), who had purchased the library of the very well known polka bandleader Lawrence Duchow, and was allowed to use some songs to do a recording.
Since Ron’s band did not carry a bass horn or tuba, yet Duchow music sort of required a tuba versus a string bass, Ron also ‘borrowed’ Peachy’s tuba player, Ron Meitner of Waterloo, WI to fill that seat on the recordings heard on Ron Harvey Salutes Lawrence Duchow!!

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