SwingDJs

hahaha...doing the balboa is great to all sorts of music...unfortunately I can only call it the balboa when I'm dancing it to swing music...all the other times I have to think up different names for it...here are a few... When I Bal to the Smiths Mozboa Johnny Cash Cashboa Anything Latin Frijolesboa...

Lindy Hop was created in response to swing music. If you don't have the music, you don't have the dance. If you have other music, you have another dance. really? lindy hop came out of swing music? I thought elvis and jerry lee lewis invented that shit... :roll: in any case I don't remember saying t...

Wow dude do you really analyze music that much before you dance to it? Are you like "sorry I can't dance to that, cuz I might have to reverse my bounce"...? I hope not because you are going to be sitting alot of songs out...... No, I don't need to analyze it. You know if it does not feel ...

I don't mind drinking some beer and listenting to RAB. But I hate Lindy Hopping to it. The RAB I Hear has a back beat too it which gives it a bouncy feeling in a differnt section of the Rythm then swing. Hence in Lindy Hop when you are in the downward bounce of the dance, RAB is in the upward feeli...

i am totally in love with close harmony bop singing groups... i can hardly keep from listening to those cds ALL THE TIME... lambert, hendricks, and ross -- the hottest new group in jazz! -- two amazing amazing cds... danceable? hell yeah. listenable? hell yeah. my favorites from that cd: cottontail...

Is the Proper Set's sound quality any better than Disconforme's Complete Columbia takes? Just curious...

There's nothing wrong with rockabilly...there's something wrong with bad rockabilly...if you notice it's the really old good stuff (circa 56, 57) that is easier to dance to...

Wesley Willis R.I.P.

thanks for the song recommendations people...I was thinking about posting a thread about swinging halloween songs...

my contribution:

quoth the raven - ella mae morse (rip that shit off of ghostcatchers)

rockin' in the graveyard - jackie morningstar

since it's a V-disc the quality is never going to be that good...however I really recommend 1943-1943 because most of the tracks are real tight and aggressive and there are even better tracks on it than DOTG, it actually might be my favorite Basie (right now)...

englewood n.j. represent...

yea his classics stuff is tops also...some of it is real weird but good...(i like weird anyhow...)

well I've got all of those. You'll need to add Count Basie & has orchestra 1937, Chick webb & his Orchestra 1936 The recordings on this album are very different than Chick Webbs standards. There are some very cool songs on this one. There are some other recordings I also have of Chick Webb ...

they call it wacky dust...

Runnin' Wild with Wild Bill Davison is fairly sick...some of it is actually in the soundtrack of "The Spirit Moves"...I really need to get more Bechet...

What kind of Shag were the competing in? Most Carolina shaggers refer to their dance as simply shag (like WCS dancers usually just refer to it as swing). Carolina Shag has been popular with competitions for decades. Collegiate Shag and Carolina Shag are very different. It was collegiate but the old...

Balboa / shag recomendations...whats the connection between these two dances? there is nothing different between "Lindy Hop" music and "Balboa" music.... Balboa= any big band swing song regardless of tempo ,historcially speaking but today you can do it to anything under the sun....