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I don't recognise that - nice track though. The 'sound' is familiar. It's a small group and I'm guessing it's 1940s or 1950s.

I've recently been stalked by the emusic people twitter - public messages and DMs asking me what my specific problems with their site are. Because they want to help me. I don't have the patience to explain why their new site is so slow to load and annoying to navigate. Someone needs to tell them th...

anton wrote:(I've now quit Emusic after close to ten years, so I will not post more in this topic.)

What made you decide to quit, Anton?

Barak_Cohen wrote:Anyone know this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqfwRl2hvQY

Thanks!

Not me, sorry - cool music and dancing though

So I'll just start with this: What's the most useful thing you've learnt about coordinating DJs for events, or about being a DJ working on an event (and dealing with coordinators)? ... I'm not entirely happy with how I do things, so I'm interested in other people's approaches. My goal: mo professio...

I have a gig coming up next week, and I decided to make a playlist in advance this time. I kept thinking if I was some sort of "respond to the floor" purist, I wouldn't do this. But now I think plenty of DJs I love dancing to have playlists and just tweak them in response to the floor. Bu...

Yakov wrote:That's an instrumental! Only hardcore Ellington fans would get the joke, and we are looking to attract an audience not entirely comprised of Ellingtonians

Not sure if these fit the 'bill' but ...

Dance Of The Lame Duck, Casa Loma Orchestra

Huckleberry Duck, Raymond Scott

trev wrote:Sounds like The Fox, by Ray Anthony, but I prefer your version

Pretty sure it's not 'The Fox'. You recorded a nice swinging version - but I'm foxed as to what it is.

No idea - sorry. I like the dance clips from the film though - set in a 'Palais de Dance' (fancy name for Dance Hall) of which there were many in British towns in the early 20th Century. I think the interior they use in the film might be a studio set, but I think it was fairly typical of the classi...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPuTeGoDVTw&feature=related @ the 41:30, 45:30 and 55:00 - so far. Anyone know the tune at the 55:00 mark? Very familiar. *Ooops. Got it! Fats Waller also recorded it. This film is quite good. Better than many Brit films of the era. THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT - No relati...

I'm not certain, but I've got a feeling that I've got this box set, and, while the music is great, the sound has been 'cleaned up' and 'processed' in a way which makes it sound like a cheap electronic copy. I'll try and find it at home to confirm this.

Haydn wrote:From memory, I think this CD is live recordings - a combination of hard swing and ballads - and mostly excellent stuff.

Actually on checking this, I'm wrong - most tracks are good sounding record releases, and some of the later stuff is live. It's well worth getting.

The CD is available on Amazon.com but they don't have a track list. But I did find the tracks at collectorz.com: DISC 1 1 The Big Apple 2:43 2 On Treasure Island 3:41 3 There Are Such Things 2:45 4 Our Love 2:47 5 Music, Maestro, Please 2:57 6 Dolores 2:57 7 In the Blue of the Evening 2:58 8 All th...

I sent an email to Scott at Mosaic Records about the possibility of them doing this material in a Mosaic box set. He replied saying that, whilst they have next year planned out already, a Tommy Dorsey set is something that they have been considering. Great stuff :) This Readers Digest CD has top so...

Yes, good stuff Anton. I've got a few of these numbers, and they're good stuff, but I've found them scattered all over the place on different CDs and occasional downloads. I'll try and cross-reference where I've got them from and put some details here.