Episode 44: Sunday Swing #13

"Swing dance" is a group of dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s-1950s, the origin of the dances predating popular "swing era" music. The most well-known of these dances is Lindy Hop, a fusion of jazz, tap, breakaway, and Charleston, which originated in Harlem in the early 1920s, but includes a number of other styles such as Balboa, Shag, West Coast Swing, and Boogie Woogie. “Sunday Swing” highlights the music of the swing era and the dances that thrived in the ballrooms and dance halls. Danny Lane guides you through a one hour swing session. Do the Lindy Hop or choose your favorite dance. Just keep swingin'.
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***** You’ll hear:
1) Take The "A" Train by Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra
2) Your Feets Too Big by Fats Waller
3) Smooth Sailing by Ella Fitzgerald (with The Bill Doggett & Orch.)
4) Rock 'n' Roll by Red Prysock Band
5) Boo-Wah Boo-Wah by Cab Calloway
6) 'Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It) by Jimmie Lunceford (with Trummy Young, vocal)
7) Jeep Jockey Jump by Major Glenn Miller & The 418th Army Air Force Training Command Band
8) Good Rockin' Tonight by Wynonie Harris
9) Savoy by Lucky Millinder
10) Big John's Special by Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
11) The Dirty Boogie by The Brian Setzer Orchestra
12) Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop by Lionel Hampton
13) Caldonia by Louis Jordan
14) Killin' Jive by Cats & The Fiddle
15) Skyliner by The Manhattan Transfer
16) Palm Springs Jump by Slim & Slam (Slam Stewart and Slim Gaillard & His Flat Foot Floogie Boys)
17) Things Ain't What They Used To Be by Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra
18) The Ball Game by Sister Wynona Carr
19) Back Bay Shuffle by Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
20) The Frim Fram Sauce by Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald
21) Yes, Indeed! by Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra