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by mr. e
Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:26 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Songs for teaching / beginners classes
Replies: 97
Views: 69629

Why wouldn't you be using real Swing music for your Swing dance lessons? Because it's about a beginners dancing class, and not a swing music class. As long as the music is good for dancing it's fine. I will of course also use some of the classics like "sunny side of the street". In my exp...
by mr. e
Sat Sep 27, 2008 3:07 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Songs for teaching / beginners classes
Replies: 97
Views: 69629

Songs for teaching / beginners classes

Advanced dancers can obviously dance to more music than beginners. So what are your favourite songs for beginners, especially for teaching? The only thread I found so far is this one: http://www.swingdjs.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=625 which contains a pretty nice list covering about 30 Minutes. I've...
by mr. e
Sat May 17, 2008 8:28 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Longest Version of Sing Sing Sing?
Replies: 3
Views: 3742

Longest Version of Sing Sing Sing?

What is the longest version you have of "Sing, Sing, Sing"? I have 12 min: Sing, Sing, Sing -- Benny Goodman -- Live At Carnegie Hall 1938 10 min: Sing, Sing, Sing -- Big Time Operator -- High Altitude Swing 10 min: Sing, Sing, Sing -- Lee Press-On And The Nails -- Jump Swing From Hell Any...
by mr. e
Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:46 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Songs for the end of the night?
Replies: 36
Views: 27859

Sorry for reving an old thread... (He's pushing up the daisies!) While search for ultra-slow swing songs I just came across Lullaby To A Jitterbug - The Andrew Sisters - Golden Greats Lyrics: Do-do-do, do-do-do-do Little jitterbug don't cry You'll be swingin' by and by You are just a tiny tot And un...
by mr. e
Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:26 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Mixed Tempo songs?
Replies: 32
Views: 32187

Earlier threads

The search function of phpBB is so crappy, so I'm putting links to earlier related threads here. I had tried searching but didn't get these results in my first tries. Maybe there are even more threads... "Songs that speed up" http://www.swingdjs.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1892 "Double...
by mr. e
Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:10 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Mixed Tempo songs?
Replies: 32
Views: 32187

Mixed Tempo songs?

Hi, What songs do you know that change tempo inbetween? I guess all of us know "Bei mir bist du schön" which is frequently played with tempo changes. Many probably know the Kevin & Carla video with that song, and their slow-motion aerial is just great. Then there is of course "Tu ...