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The vocalist is Bill Bojangles Robinson, I believe it's Cab Calloway's band playing. The recording in on the Stormy Weather (1943) soundtrack. The music goes pretty good with the scene in the movie. If memory serves, although Bill "Bojangles" Robinson gets to do a short chorus (for dramat...

Regarding "preferred" neo-swing: I never liked the "rock" sound. But not all neo groups did/do the "rock" sound. The best neo-swing makes you wonder whether it is new or old on first listen if you are unfamiliar with the group or recording. The Blues Swingers (a band th...

I hope that someday I'll stumble across a decent record made by some obscure pre-neo swing band who played swing music before it got popular again. Check out the Beatles "White Album" for Honey Pie. It's a little cartoony but basically a solid Charleston number. A group called the Tempera...

Here in Madison "Jeep Jockey Jump" is the currently favored Shim Sham number (Bill Elliott version, but the original was amazingly enough done by Glenn Miller - AF Band, I believe). Great uptempo tune which works well. Personally, I think "C Jam Blues" works well too for a slower...

This is ridiculous! I really like Casey's stuff and was thinking of adding the CD to my DJ collection, but at a cost of $99? This is the stuff that keeps CD piracy going. The economic incentive is just too big to avoid the temptation - that, combined with the sense that people are getting ripped off...

Why not occasionally split the difference? A few years back several artists put out music in a hybrid genre called "swinghop". Some stuff comes to mind -- CD's by Jimmie Luxury (out of print but sometimes available at a price) and "Plenty" by Guru (Jazzmataz, Vol. 1, I believe), ...

How come nobody mentioned "Mr. Ghost Goes to Town" yet? No brainer IMHO.

Dave Brubeck's "It's a Jazzy Waltz" if you are a sadist.

Okay folks, time to wrap this thread up. It started of as a stretch of even belonging on this discussion board (yes Julius, I got a chuckle out of it and let it stay), but it has now gone far past that point. Please keep the discussions relevant here on SwingDJs and leave the chit chat for the othe...