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Hadda Brooks - Tootsie Timesie
Frankie Trumbauer - Borneo
Frankie Trumbauer - I'm an Old Cowhand

There is an interesting thing with energy at high tempo. It seems to me that "fast lindy" music generally wants to be high energy. It makes you want to do Charleston, to MOVE. A lot of good balboa music can be uptempo but lower energy. Consider the example of Kirby that Rayned & I were...

Greg - I haven't really considered your specific song list (I will), but first a generic comment re tempos. I DJed band breaks at Bal Rendezvous and played only a couple of songs over 200 and a LOT in the 185-200 bpm range. I got no complaints and the organizers (and a couple of the old time balboa ...

...looking less for artists (there are plenty suggested in the previous pages) and more about what the "feel" of a Bal dance should be. Or am I just nervous and overthinking? ;) You are way overthinking this. :) . There is a huge range of opinion and no real consensus. As an example, ever...

I'm a new Bal dancer, but to me there's a smooth feeling to songs that make you want to dance Bal. And if the music has more of a vertical lilt rather than horizontal flow. For example, lots of the songs by John Kirby Sextet, Artie Shaw, and Fletcher Henderson. Hey - Rayned. Doug here. We met at Al...

Paul - Since I didn't make DCLX, and just as a completely hypothetical question: Spose I were DJing a band break for you at, as just a random example, the All Balboa weekend. If I were to play classic small group (Webster, Hodges, Young) would that work for you? If I used a more classic trad sound, ...

Picture me upon your knee, With tea for two and two for tea, Just me and you and you and me, alone. Nobody near us to see or to hear us, No friends or relations or weekend vacations Will have to know we have a telephone, dear. Day will break, you'll awake, Start to bake a little sugar cake, For me t...

Ben Webster - Kat's Fur Big Ben Proper Box
Roy Eldridge - Hi Ho Trailus Boot Whip Best of Roy Eldridge
Cootie Williams - Swing Pan Alley Ellington's Trumpet Players
Benny Goodman - Georgia Jubilee Bill Dodge 1934 Transcriptions

But that's just for today

Actually I was only trying to say something sorta like what you said Jonathan. I lack not just the experience, but also any real knowledge. I was just fumbling around intuitively. Thank you Jonathan!!

I have been reviewing to my Book (for the 500th time) listening for the energy that can drive a Balboa crowd wild! (Kyle - Think Lawrence Welk). The biggest difference I feel between most new recordings and many of the old translate to me as energy and drive. I think that all the factors discussed a...

Hey Roy - ya got an opinion?? Don't hold back on us now.

Actually, I think that the music industry cares at least as much about whether you (or the club you DJ for) belong to ASCAP or BMI. I think that the rule is that whoever gets the money needs the license.

Ron - How about Shave 'em Dry by Lucille Bogan?? Listen, for example to her cut off http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?userid=G2E3jbQ978&ean=604997130124 Would you play that?? Ya, it is a blues piece, but so's a lot that gets DJed these days. And the sound is crap, but that's not...

So I've played Rickie Lee Jones' "Tell Somebody" at late night. Too political?? I've also played some of Randy Newman late night. Too controversial?? I stay entirely away from Millinder's "patriotic" pieces, and I find "Poon Tang" and others of that ilk way too seventh ...

The Territory Bands 1935-37 has four by Jeter-Pillars

I don't like them (not at all!). But there are some other great songs on this CD including some good Blanche Calloway & Original Yellow Jackets