SwingDJs

So I'm dj'ing tomorrow night - there is always a Wednesday dance at the Century even though we will be competing with St. Patrick's day.

I thought it would be fun to work in something Irish, but I'm struggling with exactly what. Perhaps a token U2 song?

Anyone have suggestions for swing songs that could be considered Irish?

How about Irish Jazz musicians? Eddie Condon perhaps?

Thanks in advance!

It's scottish, not irish, but you could always play some version of Loch Lomond..

OH WHEN THE SAINTS
GO MARCHING IN
OH WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN

julius wrote:OH WHEN THE SAINTS
GO MARCHING IN
OH WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN

Now that's funny!

The only Irish Swing DJ on the board looks at interest and then realises he can't add much.

Sinéad O'Connor was a swing CD with a great Dublin Acent.
Am I Not Your Girl?

I once played the Flogging Molly song "The Worst Day Since Yesterday" as a DJ challenge, and it went over ok.

Bob the Builder wrote:The only Irish Swing DJ on the board looks at interest and then realises he can't add much.

Sinéad O'Connor was a swing CD with a great Dublin Acent.
Am I Not Your Girl?

Do you own this? All music is not too keen on it.

and check this out - courtesy of a couple of google searches: Jazz from the Shamrock Shore

I do have a version of Peg O'My Heart (Glenn Miller on Anthology of Big Band Swing) - that will make the playlist tomorrow; although since it's an instrumental it's highly unlikely anybody will get it.

And I might be reduced to working in the term "Lucky" (as a Leprauchaun) - "I'm Just a Lucky So and So", "Happy Go Lucky Local", perhaps a few tracks from Lucky Millinder....

I like the version of "Molly Malone" on The Complete Charlie Shavers with Maxine Sullivan

Bing Crosby did some more 'jazzy' things in the movie Going My Way.

But from memory only, I can't recall titles, only the movie.

Jerry

djstarr wrote:

Bob the Builder wrote:The only Irish Swing DJ on the board looks at interest and then realises he can't add much.

Sinéad O'Connor was a swing CD with a great Dublin Acent.
Am I Not Your Girl?

Do you own this? All music is not too keen on it.

I have it and quite like a few songs on it. I play "Why Don't You Do Right?" fairly often.

Bob the Builder wrote:The only Irish Swing DJ on the board looks at interest and then realises he can't add much.

Hey! I'm, like, maybe 1/4 Irish.

Kalman

Just play some House of Pain and get it over with.

Tina

Bob the Builder wrote:The only Irish Swing DJ on the board looks at interest and then realises he can't add much.

Sinéad O'Connor was a swing CD with a great Dublin Acent.
Am I Not Your Girl?

While I am not from Ireland like you, I am of Irish descent, my name is Malone after all.

Actually, I am a mut, but Ireland is the only country that I can trace ancestors back to (County Cork).

That being said, my contribution to the thread

The Big Daddy version of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm looking for" Hard to find, they are an old local band that did covers popular songs in untraditional ways. I have never actually seen the CD that this came from, but MP3s of their music float around locally.

I thought your last name was "Dogg."

Damn internet, everyone's a schoolgirl or a DJ...

Kalman

djstarr wrote:

Bob the Builder wrote:The only Irish Swing DJ on the board looks at interest and then realises he can't add much.

Sinéad O'Connor was a swing CD with a great Dublin Acent.
Am I Not Your Girl?

Do you own this? All music is not too keen on it.

Its OK. nothing amazing.
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