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Yeah - great high-energy song and great CD. I think it's an afternoon broadcast from the Savoy. There's also a CD on the HEP label which has Ella's band at the Savoy. It's called Live at the Savoy 1939-40 YEAH! I'm all SQUEE over this stuff. To me, this is the best sort of lindy hopping music. Amaz...

Finally, I can answer one of these! Oh, this is my FAVOURITE song ! It's Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra, recorded live at the Savoy (I think it's what was Chick Webb's Orchestra). It's not hard to find at all. The song is 'St Louis Blues', recorded in 1939 and you can buy it from this bril...

I am REALLY enjoying this album. I DJed from it last to a really mixed crowd on a difficult sound system and it was GOLD.

So, are you totally SQUEE about the Lunceford set?

Should I buy, it peers?

You guys are ninjas! I love this game but I _never_ guess _any_ of them. I can recognise the melodies and sing along, but that's it.

I think the key question is: why? I'd be curious to see what a tool written explicitly for this particular user group would look like. We all have such specific requirements, even within this tiny little pool of DJs, it'd be interesting to develop something that could be tailored by the user (eg tu...

What an excellent song, Haydn!

I'd desperately trying to pretend I don't need this set because I can't really afford it. But I think, really, I _need_ this set. I mean - Lunceford! In excellent quality!


It's not so great, right?

I like this thread because it sounds like the opening line from a classifieds ad. I really like 'Autumn in New York', the 1952 Billie Holiday version. It's only about 70bpm, but it's a nice 'kissing song', where you dance in close with someone you like. I really like a few versions of 'Cheek to Chee...

Did we say Mills Brothers yet? Did they even scat?

Wait... what are we doing again?





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Surely the most laborious ordering system known to humankind... but a lot of Australian (and other) jazz can be ordered through The Victorian Jazz Archive.

You guys are such awesome nerds. I never have a clue about these IDs. And it's such a nice surprise when you name them!

I'd ditch the jazz options and go straight to They Might Be Giants.

Hey, thanks you blokes! anton: It's so brilliant. I think they recorded it in her house or something (the liner notes to that Bear Family box set are downstairs - I'll look later). There are 8 songs by that combination of people: Wee Baby Blues, If It's Good, I've Got A Crush On The Fuller Brush Man...

Golly, it's FUN doing yehoodi radio! Hey, here's my setlist. Some of these songs don't have full discography details because I just haven't sorted my collection completely. Will I ever ? Unlikely. I also tend to just list musicians in band personnel that are relevant to my interests. :D I crap on an...