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Songs that will always have meaning for you...

#1 Post by nightowl » Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:25 am

I was thinking about this the other day, and it made me DJ a little bit differently... I played some stuff I hadn't in a while, and it brought some life back to my venue.

Thinking about how one day, perhaps you won't be a dancer/dj anymore. What songs would bring back memories of the time when you were? Of course, most swing would, but which ones would bring back a certain fondness for it? Perhaps ones that really captured your heart as a dancer when you were a newbie.

Or ones that coincided with major breakthroughs in your love for swing?


My short list to start:

Blue Skies, Lavay Smith
How lucky can one guy be, Indigo
Mighty Blue Kings, My Baby Drives Me Wild
Lots of Sinatra, including Luck be a lady, You make me feel so young, and the way you look tonight.
Beans and Cornbread, Louis Jordan
Drink Muddy Water, Lou Rawls
Flip Flop and Fly, Big Joe Turner
School Days, Dizzy Gillespie
Shout Sister Shout, Lucky Millinder
All the Cats Join in, Benny Goodman
Lots of Slim Gaillard, like, 8,9 and 10, Palm Springs Jump, Jump Session
Bugle Call Rag, any version
Flyin Home, Lionel Hampton
Minor Swing, Django
Hoodle Addle, Ray Mckinley
Via Con Me, Paolo Conte
Easy Does it, Big 18
Blue My Naughty Sweetie give to me, Sidney Bechet
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#2 Post by Roy » Wed Jun 02, 2004 6:37 am

Uh oh, should i tell my story again?
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#3 Post by gatorgal » Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:22 am

Roy wrote:Uh oh, should i tell my story again?
Not if involves another intimate moment with your girlfriend. :)

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Re: Songs that will always have meaning for you...

#4 Post by gatorgal » Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:27 am

nightowl wrote:Or ones that coincided with major breakthroughs in your love for swing?
Off the top of my head...

Sing, Sing, Sing - Swing Kids version
Just a Gigolo - Louis Prima
Regular Joe - Indigo Swing
Fly Me to the Moon - Sinatra
Smooth Sailing - Ella
Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby - Dinah
Summertime - Gene Harris
Splanky - Basie

That's all I can think of for now... interesting topic.

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#5 Post by Kyle » Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:46 am

Oh Marie! Louis Prima
Rockin In Rhythm Ellington


that's about it. well for sentimemtal songs relating to my dancing.
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#6 Post by Roy » Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:12 am

gatorgal wrote:
Roy wrote:Uh oh, should i tell my story again?
Not if involves another intimate moment with your girlfriend. :)

Tina 8)
Ex-girlfirend, way ex.
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#7 Post by BigCash » Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:27 am

Potato Chips - Slim & Slam (The first time I saw the Moocher's perform.)
Most of Indigo Swing's Stuff
Love me or Leave me - Nina
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#8 Post by mousethief » Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:33 am

Flying Home - Lionel Hampton
Jumpin at the Woodside - Count Basie
Closer to the Bone - Louis Prima
East St. Louis Toodle-Oo - Duke Ellington
Bugle Call Rag - Benny Goodman
Mahogany Hall Stomp - Louis Armstrong
All Right, OK, You Win - Count Basie, Joe Williams
Basin Street Blues/Sleepy Time Down South - Louis Prima
Beans 'n' Cornbread - Louis Jordan


And just to get your goat...

Zip Gun Bop - Royal Crown Revue (I learned Charleston to this song)

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#9 Post by Yakov » Fri Jun 04, 2004 6:07 am

all of "Louis & Ella," the first album... over and over again...
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