Talk:Hotel Hattiesburg

Cooney's Band?

The 1961 article about Hotel Hattiesburg ("Razing of old hotel brings back memories" by Wiley Allen Landrum, Hattiesburg American, May 29, 1961, pg 10) casually mentions this:

May your ball room be crowded again with the youth of yesteryear, waltzing and fox trotting to the music of Cooney's Band.

My guess is that "Cooney's Band" is a reference to Cooney Vaughn, a member of the Mississippi Jook Band. Various sources mention Hotel Hattiesburg as being a possible location of the 1936 recordings. --LarryM 13:59, 7 September 2013 (EDT)