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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 11:22 am
by Ron
Also, the song title is "I Diddle" not "Hey Diddle". I keep making that mistake...
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 9:06 pm
by Nando
I like the idea of a closing song, although personally I don't like sticking to one every single time I DJ cause I just would like to be more flexible. Probably also cause the songs I associate with closing songs come from someone else, and I wouldn't want to copy their song.
Back when NYC had the Supper Club each Friday and Saturday night, the official last song was Elvis's "Viva Las Vegas" That song will always stand out as a closing song to the NYC crowd from back then. I've never heard anyone else use it, but everyone always knew to pack it up at the mention of the song.
Also, H.R.O always plays "Killer Joe" for their last song.
Rayned turned me onto my favorite closing song, Blossom Dearie's "The Party's Over"
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 9:14 am
by Lars
I used to play "Rockin' at Midnight" by the Honeydrippers as a last song. Tho' lately I've switched to "Hit the Road Jack" and I guess I usually play the Buster version more than the Ray Charles version. I also have ended the night with Tibetan Monks chanting, that got a mixed reaction.
Lars
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:10 am
by Jake
Lars wrote:I used to play "Rockin' at Midnight" by the Honeydrippers as a last song. Tho' lately I've switched to "Hit the Road Jack" and I guess I usually play the Buster version more than the Ray Charles version. I also have ended the night with Tibetan Monks chanting, that got a mixed reaction.
Lars
I use that one a lot too, but usually the
Laverne Butler version.
Last Song
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:14 am
by CCKitty
"Strokin'" by Clarence Carter
just kidding
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 2:45 pm
by CafeSavoy
*bump*
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Projection
On the day when the Savoy
leaps clean over to Seventh Avenue
and starts jitterbugging
with the Renaissance,
on that day when Abyssinia Baptist Church
throws her enormous arms around
St. James Presbyterian
and 409 Edgecombe
stoops to kiss 12 West 133rd,
on that day--
Do, Jesus!
Manhattan Island will whirl
like a Dizzy Gillespie transcription
played by Inez and Timme.
On that day, Lord,
Sammy Davis and Marian Anderson
will sing a duet,
Paul Robeson
will team up with Jacke Mabley,
and Father Divine will say in truth,
Peace!
It's truly
wonderful!
Reprinted from Langston Hughes' Montage of a Dream Deferred.