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