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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:54 pm
by GemZombie
It had an implication.

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:02 pm
by Nate Dogg
So, everybody

When you do your Artie Shaw tribute, what songs would you play?

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:03 pm
by main_stem
Are we done with the pissing match yet...

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:10 pm
by CafeSavoy
main_stem wrote:Are we done with the pissing match yet...
That's interesting. When Shorty Dave was charged with using nepotism to get a cd produced, no one mentioned idiot or pissing match. But even to suggest some people don't like Artie Shaw, and it's a battle.

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:27 pm
by mousethief
You know, forget it. Thread would have fallen apart anyway.

Kalman

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:30 pm
by mousethief
Nate Dogg wrote:So, everybody

When you do your Artie Shaw tribute, what songs would you play?
Not sure. I admittedly don't own much Shaw, by way of impulse buying. I'm doing a half-way tribute dance this weekend, so we'll see then.

Kalman

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:35 pm
by Nate Dogg
mousethief wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:So, everybody

When you do your Artie Shaw tribute, what songs would you play?
Not sure. I admittedly don't own much Shaw, by way of impulse buying. I'm doing a half-way tribute dance this weekend, so we'll see then.

Kalman
I played "Begin the Beguine" on Thursday, it gets played occasionally by another DJ and it was his most famous recording. I also played "Blues (From The Lenox Avenue Suite) (Part 2)."

Quite frankly, I had not played much of his music the past, even after picking up a few of his CDs.

Nahtan

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:35 pm
by CafeSavoy
Nate Dogg wrote:So, everybody

When you do your Artie Shaw tribute, what songs would you play?
it would depend on how much time you had, but i'd go down this list and then add more as needed.

nightmare
man from mars,
back bay shuffle
everything's jumping
old lady be good
traffic jam
diga diga doo
hop, skip, jump
st louis blues
summertime
there'll be some changes made
begin the beguine
blues in the night
carioca
my blue heaven
summit ridge drive
rosalie
any old time
rose room
st james infirmary
oh lady be good with basie
solid sam
non stop flight

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 3:00 pm
by Travis
I played a few Shaw songs last Sunday while splitting the night with Kevin T. Hardly a tribute but my choices were:

St. Louis Blues
Oh Lady Be Good
Sweet Sue

Shaw is the first artist whose work I started seriously collecting. Lot's of good stuff.

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 3:41 pm
by JesseMiner
Rayned, great list.

I don't play a lot of Shaw, but there are some dancers who absolutely love dancing to his music, so I usually make it a point to throw in a selection or two.

Some of my favorites that I play (and will continue to play in tribute to Shaw's great dance cuts):

Oh Lady Be Good
Man From Mars
Traffic Jam
Back Bay Shuffle
Diga Diga Do

Jesse

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 3:47 pm
by main_stem
Travis wrote:I played a few Shaw songs last Sunday while splitting the night with Kevin T. Hardly a tribute but my choices were:

St. Louis Blues
Oh Lady Be Good
Sweet Sue

Shaw is the first artist whose work I started seriously collecting. Lot's of good stuff.
I played my all time favorite, When the Quails Come Back to San Quenten; there were other songs I was going to play but ran out of time and didn't get to two thirds of the music I wanted to play.

-Kevin

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 4:18 pm
by AlekseyKosygin
I actually made a compilation CD for my friend of my favorite Artie Shaw tracks two weeks ago...It was weird because we actually saw his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in California the day he passed away but before we found out about it...Here are the tracks...The first track is from a studio side he played with the Roger Wolfe Kahn Orchestra from Morristown, N.J. ...

1. It Don't Mean A Thing - 1932
2. Hold Your Hats - 1938
3. Yesterdays - 1938
4. Oh Lady, Be Good - 1939
5. Nightmare - 1939
6. Traffic Jam - 1939
7. Comes Love - 1939
8. My Heart Stood Still - 1939
9. St. Louis Blues - 1939
10. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise - 1939
11. Carioca - 1939
12. Everything Is Jumpin' - 1939
13. At Sundown - 1939
14. Sweet Sue (Just You) - 1939
15. Man From Mars - 1939
16. Diga Diga Doo - 1939
17. Blues In The Night - 1941
18. Little Jazz - 1945
19. Natch - 1945
20. Mysterioso - 1945
21. Bedford Drive - 1945
22. Lucky Number - 1945
23. The Hornet - 1945
24. My Heart Belongs To Daddy - 1946
25. Anniversary Song - 1946

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:07 pm
by Campus Five
My band played these for New Years in San Diego:
Man From Mars
Carioca
Comin' On
Bedford Drive

I was also tempted to play "There'll Be Some Changes Made", and to have the Campus Five play "Hop, Skip and Jump."

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:24 pm
by Charleston Charlie
This is the playsheet for my tribute show on Artie on CITR this a.m.

Nightmare
Night Over Shanghai
The Hornet
At Sundown
If I Had You (Irving Aaronson -1929; Artie and Tony Pastor on Sax)
Sugar Foot Stomp
Softly As The Morning Sunrise
Any Old Time (Billie Holiday vocal)
Little Jazz
Take Your Shoes Off, Baby (and Start Runnin’ Through My Mind)
One Night Stand
Carioca
Traffic Jam
Don’t Fall Asleep
Small Fry
Prosschai (Goodbye, Goodbye)
Leapin’ At The Lincoln
Everything Is Jumpin’
Man From Mars
Oh, Lady Be Good
Octoroon
Rose Room
Together
Put That Down In Writing
Night and Day
St. Louis Blues
Diga Diga Doo
Temptation
Concerto For Clarinet (part 1)
Begin The Beguine

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:57 pm
by djstarr
I don't have near enough Artie in my collection, but some of my favorites are "Any old Time", "My Blue Heaven", "When the Quails come to San Quentin", "Summit Ridge Drive", and "Sweet Adeline" (from the 1939 live broadcasts). I'm dj'ing tomorrow so I'll probably play several of them.

And interesting that Artie's spirit of antagonism permeates this thread - that's a fitting tribute - lol.

And I never thought about it until I read the CNN obit but perhaps his relationship with dancers was a lot like the ones with his 8 ex-wives. You can't run a dance band and make such swinging music without having some empathy for dancing and dancers.