SwingDJs

www.missingpaddles.com ? We have several unemployed techies in Austin with a bit too much time on their hands and a few servers at their disposal. It's all in fun, and none of it is coming out of the ALX budget. It's the equivalent of an independently-financed fan club. I also have nothing to do wi...

Do you have friends that want to fly down for the Exchange? Still looking for a flight yourself? Orbitz is having an Austin fare sale, Oct 17-19th Check it, www.orbitz.com, www.austinlindyexchange.com Dear NATHAN, Orbitz is announcing lower fares from Austin to many popular destinations! Plan your t...

what's wrong with the big apple to Flyin' Home? I miss the big apple... there was a time in pgh when everybody knew it but now no body knows it, not sure how that happened There's nothing wrong with doing the Big Apple to Flying Home. The problem is that I've never just danced to Flying Home. In my...

Shanabanana wrote:

Nate Dogg wrote:10. The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

How ironic

I could spend all day going over how I break the principles.

Principles from the best-selling classics - "How to Win Friends and Influence People" - Dale Carnegie Become a Friendlier Person 1. Don't criticize, condemn or complain. 2. Give honest, sincere appreciation. 3. Arouse in the person an eager want. 4. Become genuinely interested in other peo...

i had a request for uncle cracker last year...and the requester was apalled that i didn't even know who uncle cracker was. it made me sad. {ahem} :? um.... seriously... Who IS Uncle Cracker? Uncle Kracker is the DJ for Kid Rock. He had a hit with a country tinged song called "Follow Me" a...

My take on exchanges is that they should be for showing the rest of the country how great your scene is, including DJs. If you don't have a scene worth sharing then you shouldn't be having an exchange in the first place. If that outlook was taken by exchange organizers everywhere, the sheer quantit...

I've noticed that at some local venues (not run by dancers but where people regularly swing dance), the band breaks are never DJ'd. People don't dance, but instead take the time to have some drinks and hang out. It doesn't seem to affect attendance, which started me thinking about the whole DJ'd ba...

This raises several questions: should these two DJ's have played to the majority of the crowd?. Depends. In the case where there are multiple rooms, they should stick to the theme of the room. If there is only one room and nobody is dancing, I would think a good DJ would make adjustments to get the...

Just picked up a CD that is all location songs, it is a concept album dedicated to different locations. http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc900/c995/c99578td74b.jpg 1. Alabamy Bound (DeSylva/Green/Henderson) - 1:53 2. Georgia on My Mind (Carmichael/Gorrell) - 3:37 3. Basin Street Blues (Willi...

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Kansas City Riffs - Buster Smith
Legendary Buster Smith, Koch Records



Drop Me Off In Harlem
Victrola version, available at buymusichere.net

Plenty of songs, can't list them all, here are a few... Another Day in L.A - Indigo Swing, All Aboard Route 66 Asleep at the Wheel - Superhits http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd500/d551/d55133gi27b.jpg Nat King Cole http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre900/e996/e996733xuox.jpg Depeche...

Swifty sent me a private message earlier today, his comment was that he knew nothing about our venues. Since, the website did not really showcase our venues, I thought I would address that in this thread. Venues: The Texas Women’s Federation Mansion(Friday and Saturday night) A Georgian Revival mans...

I theorize that when you drop below a certain range, it really does not matter what you play; it really does sap the room of "lindy hop" energy and refocuses it into "interpersonal connected dancing" energy. What is lindy hop energy? Is there no interpersonal connection in lindy...

instead of just wasting space with three of the top threads on Yehoodi by talking about nothing. There were originally two threads, a thread about the Exchange itself and one about the paddle tour. That was it, everybody knew what those threads were about. They were easy to ignore. We were not floo...