I know it's been a few years but I can't for the life of me find out which song is being played in this clip from ULHS 2006. I just love the speed and energy!
http://youtu.be/myJj0mNNe1Y
[Answered] White Heat, Bellagala Big Band
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Re: Songs from ULHS 2006
The band is playing "White Heat". The first version of the song was recorded by Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra, in 1934 I think.
Re: Songs from ULHS 2006
The band, by the way, is the "Bellagala Big Band." Minneapolis has a big wedding-and-event-services company called Bellagala, and when people requested a big band, this is the lineup you get.
What's always interested me is that this was their first lindy-specific gig to my knowledge (it was certainly the first & last time I'd ever danced to them - they really are mostly in the wedding scene!), and they took White Heat well under 300 bpm, whereas it's typically played well over 300 bpm. Compare how much more the dancers are able to do than in 2005, where another great Minneapolis Band, the Wolverines Big Band, took it much faster.
Not that dancing can never be leg-bustingly fast, but I've always thought it was cool that through a fluke of a good band playing outside their usual range, we got this timeless 7-million-view video.
What's always interested me is that this was their first lindy-specific gig to my knowledge (it was certainly the first & last time I'd ever danced to them - they really are mostly in the wedding scene!), and they took White Heat well under 300 bpm, whereas it's typically played well over 300 bpm. Compare how much more the dancers are able to do than in 2005, where another great Minneapolis Band, the Wolverines Big Band, took it much faster.
Not that dancing can never be leg-bustingly fast, but I've always thought it was cool that through a fluke of a good band playing outside their usual range, we got this timeless 7-million-view video.
Re: Songs from ULHS 2006
I took my own video of this at this event and never uploaded it. Whoops.
Re: Songs from ULHS 2006
Oy! Don't just taunt us with that! Upload it, please.trev wrote:I took my own video of this at this event and never uploaded it. Whoops.
(A different angle is always nice, and a different view of the all-skate is nice, too.)Re: Songs from ULHS 2006
Perhaps a project for the weekendlipi wrote: Oy! Don't just taunt us with that! Upload it, please.
Re: Songs from ULHS 2006
Well?!trev wrote:Perhaps a project for the weekendlipi wrote: Oy! Don't just taunt us with that! Upload it, please.