Bert Kaempfert - A Swingin' Safari
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Bert Kaempfert - A Swingin' Safari
I've just bought a CD called
Swingin Safari/Safari Swings Again
by Bert Kaempfert
http://www2.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayPro ... sku=728966
The big hit from this CD is the first track:
1. A Swingin' Safari
Others that are good to dance to include:
6. Zambesi
7. Afrikaan Beat
8. Happy Trumpeter
23. Walking With Fips
I've never heard these played at a Lindy dance, but I think they'd go down well. It's modern big band music with an African-type swing feel. What do you think?
Swingin Safari/Safari Swings Again
by Bert Kaempfert
http://www2.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayPro ... sku=728966
The big hit from this CD is the first track:
1. A Swingin' Safari
Others that are good to dance to include:
6. Zambesi
7. Afrikaan Beat
8. Happy Trumpeter
23. Walking With Fips
I've never heard these played at a Lindy dance, but I think they'd go down well. It's modern big band music with an African-type swing feel. What do you think?
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I've played A Swingin' Safari for years with great effect. You have to be in a particularly silly mood to play it, of course, as it's pure cheese all the way down. But it swings, for sure.
"Take the worst of neo-swing and put it together with Glen Miller. The man thinks the Count is someone from a horror flick. Take pity on him and let him play two or three tunes. But be sure you have some errands to run." -- Bill Borgida
Unfortunately most jazz fans would rate Bert Kaempfert right up there with Guy Lombardo. As a dancer, I would hesitate to dance to it unless it were the right mood, and even then I think it would be a novelty song forever.
I like "Danke Schoen", "Wonderland By Night", and some of the songs you've listed, but I like them in the same way that I like Poison songs. They're a guilty pleasure because you can't freakin' stop humming them, and yet it annoys you to do so.
Categorization sucks, but I would put Bert under "lounge music" before "swing". That's just me.
I like "Danke Schoen", "Wonderland By Night", and some of the songs you've listed, but I like them in the same way that I like Poison songs. They're a guilty pleasure because you can't freakin' stop humming them, and yet it annoys you to do so.
Categorization sucks, but I would put Bert under "lounge music" before "swing". That's just me.
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Well, I don't think anyone would be trying to say that A Swingin' Safari was meant to be taken seriously as a jazz work, would they?
It's all cheese, and should be taken that way. It would only take about 3 plays a year to start annoying people.
It's all cheese, and should be taken that way. It would only take about 3 plays a year to start annoying people.
"Take the worst of neo-swing and put it together with Glen Miller. The man thinks the Count is someone from a horror flick. Take pity on him and let him play two or three tunes. But be sure you have some errands to run." -- Bill Borgida
For a couple of days, a version of Swingin Safari is available for download, the Billy Vaughn version.
Much of what this guy puts up is tounge in cheek.
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Much of what this guy puts up is tounge in cheek.
check out this blog
http://recordrobot.blogspot.com/
For all you know I'm never playing it again. You just have to have faith that I won't play it when you're not at a venue. :pShanabanana wrote:If John Dyer ever plays Swingin Safari again, he knows I'll shove it up his Uncle Cracker.
Interestingly enough, the college swing club kids seem to like it if I play it for them from time to time. In that setting it always packs the floor. The same annoying Da-dur-da Da-dur-da has a relatively predictable beat for newbs.
Pure cheese all the way through, but try to get it out of your head once you start listening to it!
John Dyer, Denver CO