SwingDJs

That is my favorite all-time video on YouTube.

Thanks for naming me Mary Ann!

Also, i'd like to throw a vote in for Dave Frutos as well.

Some of my favorites:

Lindy Hopper's Delight - Chick Webb
The Ball Game - Sister Wynona Carr (on "Baseball's Greatest Hits")
On Revival Day - LaVern(e) Baker
Sugar Foot Stomp - Benny Goodman
A Viper's Moan - Willie Bryant OR Mora's Modern Rhythmists


Good luck with your new swing club!

I'm not sure someone as mentionned it yet, but I found a nice version of "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" by Madeleine Peyroux in a live CD called "20 Years of Music-Vol 3". I like it a lot. Check out the version by the "Ditty Bops". Saw them live last month...

Such a great show on tap for today!

Boston natives (and dancers) Candice & Tony will be in studio with an extensive collection of Western Swing & Rockabilly among other styles.

That combined with my usual stuff will make for a definitive listening experience!

Just to let y'all know about a show I host in case you needed something to listen to on a Saturday afternoon. On this show i'll be spinning Big Band, Traditional Jazz, Jump Blues, Classic R&B, Early Rock n' Roll, and anything else that swings. The new show runs every Saturday 4-6 PM on WRBB 104....

Oh snap!

Here's what I played:

Diga Diga Doo
Carioca
Non-Stop Flight
Oh Lady Be Good (Soundies)
Begin the Beguine
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
When the Quail Comes
S'Wonderful
Traffic Jam

I own a Glenn Miller V Disc with a handful of hard swinging songs including a sweet version of "Stealin' Apples." Best version i've ever heard of that song.

Horsepoop. Check out 'Live at The Palladium' and 'It Goes To Your Feet'. Plenty of danceable stuff there. Also "Blues In The Night". Yes, he played ballads, and everybody back in the day danced to ballads, and that makes it danceable. Basie, Ellington, and Webb all played ballads too. I d...

A majority of his stuff is undanceable, but such is the case as alot of big bands (that is if you count ballads as undanceable.) Check out the Self Portrait-Bluebird Anthology Box Set. It contains alot of stuff that was experimental for big band (strings), because that's the way he preferred it. In ...

Bought a copy at New Years Eve Dance Extravaganza in Danvers yesterday and listened to it on the way home. Good stuff, expanded my collection of slower tempo/small group stuff. Especially like that Joe Williams version of "Four or Five Times." The only criticism I would give would be that ...