SwingDJs

So, no one has started talking about him. I guess I'll beg people to.

I'm addicted to a CD I have of him, but have not been able to find any more while browsing. What are your favorite albums for DJing? For listening? What about specific songs?

But lindy wouldn't have evolved then if there weren't music being produced that made it "feel right." I'm sure Peter could answer this more definitively, but I somehow doubt that people where thinking "let's develop a new dance that 'feels right.'" They were just trying to come ...

Lindy evolved some time in the 20's, it seems...and there must have been some new path taken in music that made the dance evolve from Charleston to breakaway to what we know now. But when I go to the library and go to record stores and hunt down old albums from the 20's, all I can find that swings i...

Of the people who've just been briefly mentioned by name w/o further comment...how many are still known to be playing in public?

SirScratchAlot wrote:The best thing about Herrang is that american's trend of Groove is disliked....they still Lindy Hop like Mo Fo's over there!!!

Shit, you just sold me.

Well, the CD person was back at the market today; the old stuff I saw turned out to not be nearly as good as I'd hoped. Ballads, cutesy kinds of movie songs, etc. But I did end up buying one CD, and I even got a half-euro discount on it. Ray Ventura & Ses Collegiens...no album title, really, but...

French, in particular. I've finally gotten to take up DJing here, but one complaint I've received from the French is that I don't have anything in their language. The guy who runs swing has a few tracks, but a lot of it is stuff like translations of "Hello Dolly" by Petula Clark. Albums I ...

*steps quietly into forum, looking around, a bit intimidated* I've always posted my music questions on Yehoodi, but this one is just a little too technical, so I hope you all won't mind a DJing question here from someone who hasn't actually gotten to try her hand at DJing yet. My school's swing club...