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I have dj'ed at All Bal for a couple of years now and this year, I dj'ed two sets - both on Sunday night. The first one was called 'Bal for Tired Feet' and was all slower tempos. The second one was all Chick Webb (we had a 'battle of the bands' between Chick, Count Basie and Benny Goodman) I may hav...

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Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehaving

goes from approx 110 bpm to 268 and then back to 110-ish.

Great bal competition song

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I've never used it it but you can download a trial version and decide if it's worth the price.

and ended up using Megaseg . If Traktor seemed a bit over-the-top for you, Megaseg may prove to be similar (and it cost a lot more than I was hoping to pay), but I've found it to be rock-solid, and an absolute joy to use. I downloaded the demo and poked around, and it seemed like a nice program (I ...

Hmm. Worked for me.

Get Your Boots Laced, Papa Part 1

Get Your Boots Laced, Papa Part 2

ABW uses a sound engineer to sound the bands (Jonathan Stout Orchestra, Campus Five and Boilermakers) . . . and last year he helped with the DJs that did the band breaks.

I just watched "Rhythm Romance" with Bob Hope and Gene Krupa: Rhythm Romance is the television title for the 1939 Bob Hope comedy Some Like It Hot (the change was made to avoid confusion with the 1959 Billy Wilder film of the same name). The song, "Some Like It Hot", was written ...

Ridin' and Jivin' - Earl Hines

I think this one has been requested for an ID a couple of times.

It's a great song!

I thought some of you might enjoy this. I stumbled across it last week. In May 1971, James Robert Grover submitted "A Creative Aural History Thesis" to the Department of Speech of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. T...

With reference to Benny Goodman, I've just got a CD called The Essential Benny Goodman [Bluebird/Legacy] which has by far the best-sounding version of his 'Don't Be That Way' that I've heard. On this CD, 'Don't Be That Way' sounds cleaner and less 'tinny' than normal (note: it's a different take, b...

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Rock and Rye - the version I have is by Earl Hines . . . this sounds a little different . . .

This is just a guess: there is a 1938 movie called Some Like It Hot (not the Billy Wilder one with Marilyn Monroe) starring Bob Hope (and here is the kicker) - there is an appearance by Gene Krupa (playing himself). Allmusic.com lists the song in question as being from 1938 . . . So my guess is that...