Hello I'm Kirstie Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

The program was originally broadcast in 1981 and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. This week are cast away as the jazz drummer and bandleader Buddy Rich.

Buddy, you travel around most of the year.

How would you feel about settling down for a while on a desert island?

Well, if it was only for a while, Roy, I could probably tolerate that,

but to give up the career and think about a serious retirement

That's the farthest thing from my mind at this point.

Do you play discs a lot?

On the road I do at whom I don't at whom I'm more the athletic type I do a lot of athletics

What sort of athletics? Well, I've been involved in the martial arts for the past 18 years now I hold a black belt in karate

Yes, and I still work out and rather than sit

in the house and listen I would rather do something that keeps me in physical shape

right well you've got plenty of opportunities on our island.

Right.

Now you have just eight discs with you.

What's the first?

The first, and this is a story, Roy, about in the early 30s, when I was just starting to listen to various jazz people

jazz bands one of the first impressions I ever had was with Ray Noble who was in the States at the time at, I can't remember the exact hotel,

but it was someplace in mid-Manhattan and they used to do a broadcast late at night, I think,

about 11 o'clock in the evening.

And the first time I heard Ray Noble's band, they played an arrangement

of Tiger Reg, which up until that point in time had been kind of a funny piece of music,

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