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Like I said: that black music represents the future and white music the past. Huh? Is this lost in the translation? What makes you think such a thing or that DE would think that? You have one super modern song written by a young black composer, celebrating Harlem. You have one super old-fashioned s...

I doubt that he put any thought into it b/c it was likely the producer's clever decision. Plus - "A" Train was a BMI tune, so it could get radio play in 1941 when all ASCAP music was banned from the radio. "Sidewalks" was *likely* ASCAP, but could have been P.D. by then or even ...

The Sidewalks of New York Originally the flip side of TAKE THE "A" TRAIN. To bring this thread back to Ellington: An ingenious pairing like that is something you'd expect on a 45 from a clever artist in the '70s or '80s (probably with some sort of visual clue - a two-sided black/white cov...

CafeSavoy wrote:The singer/tap dancer is Bunny Briggs.

Thanks Rayned! Gotta check him out - he's awesome.

Thanks! So now I know where the phrase "trip the light fantastic" comes from. You know, I could have just googled it, but then I would have totally missed both the old street scene and that great Barnet version. Who's the scat singer?

Eyeball wrote:Yeah - really good in 4/4 time instead of the as written 3/4.

A song all NYers know to this day.

What for? Where's the song from originally?

One overlooked Ellington tune I really like for dancing: The Sidewalks of New York, recorded in 1940. Musically it's a trifle, but it's got a great, relaxed but driving mid-tempo groove going.

I use it and I'm quite happy with it. It works well, it's extremely simple to use and it sounds great - the "crystalizer" funktion really enhances the sound of mp3s a lot (don't bother with the "surround" function, though). I've never used any other external soundcard, and most o...

Loved Sweet & Lowdown , one of Woody Allen's better films of recent years and one of Sean Penn's better performances period, and of course the music is excellent. No critics seemed to notice that the plot was a complete ripoff of (or let's be generous and call it an homage to) Fellini's La Strad...

Haydn wrote:What is, or was, 'the chitlin circuit'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitlin%27_circuit

I think you'll find a certain battle of the bands took place ;) Amongst other things. Earlier that night, there seems to have been a little something going on at Carnegie Hall. Amen to the time machine suggestion. 1938. Yeah. The year Basie made it big at the Famous Door, the year of the concert me...

Very interesting, and mostly very easy to agree with. Where did you find it?

The Ellington titles that Trev mentions were the ones that immediately came to my mind as well. Just make sure your friend gets recordings from the right era. Also some slow Hot Five/Hot Seven Armstrong, such as West End Blues, Lonesome Blues, Wild Man Blues - hell, any song with the word "blue...

Sorry for de-railing the thread, but yep, Betty Hutton did what I think is the definitive version of Murder, he Says". Check her out here.

They expect you to use iTunes and only iTunes to rip or download files, which is ridiculous. And even if you use only iTunes to rip or download, it sucks if you're more than one user with different music libraries on the same computer - even if you're using the same iTunes folder. Me and my girlfri...