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name that song!

http://www.stevedandrebecca.com/performances.asp
grand nationals 2003

this actually just got sprung on me at a competition, but it was a ballroom crowd, and i didn't feel comfortable approaching the d.j. "excuse me, what's that terrible song you just played for the lindy heat?"

The vocalist is Bill Bojangles Robinson, I believe it's Cab Calloway's band playing. The recording in on the Stormy Weather (1943) soundtrack. The music goes pretty good with the scene in the movie.

So why do you feel it doesn't work as music for their routine?

Sure better than their corny costumes.....sigh.....

wow, that's bojangles? cool. i've seen "stormy weather", but it's been a while. is this where he's singing outside of some white-picket fence type houses on a stage? my memory is hazy.

So why do you feel it doesn't work as music for their routine?

i think it works fine for the routine. i happen to think it's not a particularly great song to lindy to, and i was annoyed when it got played at a freestyle (non-choreo) competition i was in this past saturday. i only linked the steve & rebecca video because i remembered that's where i'd heard the song before.

Toon Town Dave wrote:The vocalist is Bill Bojangles Robinson, I believe it's Cab Calloway's band playing. The recording in on the Stormy Weather (1943) soundtrack. The music goes pretty good with the scene in the movie.

If memory serves, although Bill "Bojangles" Robinson gets to do a short chorus (for dramatic purposes in a shot with Lena Horne), Cab Calloway is the primary vocalist.

I haven't seen the movie in a few years but I recall Bojangles on a stage with a train doing about half a song or so, then the camera zooms (pans?) back revealing Cab's Orchestra in front of the stage with a bunch of tap/jazz dancers.

Toon Town Dave wrote:I haven't seen the movie in a few years but I recall Bojangles on a stage with a train doing about half a song or so, then the camera zooms (pans?) back revealing Cab's Orchestra in front of the stage with a bunch of tap/jazz dancers.

The Cab Calloway scene is the finale/highlight of the movie (occuring shortly after Lena Horne's performance of the title song "Stormy Weather") and lasts for about 20 minutes involving several song and dance numbers with Cab doing most, but not all, of the vocals. The final number, "Ain't That Somethin'" includes some vocals by Bill "Bojanges" Robinson at the end to "wrap up the plot" (guy and girl get together and will ride off into the sunset).

This sequence also includes a classic Nicholas Brothers routine.