SwingDJs

Posted: **Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:14 pm**

I'm looking for a version of Anything Goes that's 200+ BPM and only seem to be turning up versions in the 180's...any recommendations?

Thanks!

Posted: **Tue Dec 14, 2010 12:33 pm**

If you're ok with a 1961 live quartet version with a little latin tinge and with Ella Fitzgerald singing (and talking a lot in the beginning), then the version on Twelve Nights in Hollywood is right there around 200+ bpm.

/Jonas

Posted: **Tue Dec 14, 2010 7:10 pm**

Laura -
Whatcha lookin' for - vocal, instrumental, vintage, hi-fi?
There are several 200+ versions on Amazon & eMusic. Here's a couple of older instrumentals:

Sid Phillips http://www.amazon.com/Anything-Goes-Fea ... 0&sr=1-148

Ted Heath http://www.emusic.com/album/Ted-Heath-A ... 94373.html

How about punk?: http://www.emusic.com/album/Hen-Wlad-Fy ... 11596.html

- Ken

Posted: **Tue Dec 14, 2010 8:24 pm**

Let's just say it's one of those I'll know it when I hear it things...but looking for something in an earlier style of jazz, without the Ethel Merman vocals.

Posted: **Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:29 am**

The early (1930s) versions are:

Dorsey Brothers [1934], 195 bpm, with vocals
http://www.amazon.com/Anything-Goes/dp/B004A8ISJS/

Benny Goodman [1935] - three different radio transcriptions, at least one is available online (165 bpm only, instrumental):
http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue ... id=1090956

Django Reinhardt (Patrick et Son Orchestre) [1935], 205-225 bpm (depending on the remaster...), instrumental
http://www.7digital.com/artists/django- ... rome-kern/
http://www.jazz-on-line.com/a/ramd/PatCPT-2145-1.ram
Also on the Django 1935-1936 Chrono Classics (with crappy sound), etc., etc.

The Django version is the one you want - it rocks!