Episode 99: Sunday Swing #16

"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) Christopher Columbus by Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra (with Roy Eldridge, trumpet)
2) 9:20 Special by Count Basie & His Orchestra (with Coleman Hawkins, tenor sax)
3) It Rocks! It Rolls! It Swings! by The Treniers
4) That Drummer's Band by Gene Krupa
5) Get Up Get Up (You Sleepy Head) by LaVern Baker
6) C Jam Blues by Doc Severinsen & His Big Band
7) Cherokee (aka Indian Love Song) by Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra
8) Baby Workout by Jackie Wilson
9) Struttin' with Some Barbecue by Roy Eldridge & Friends
10) Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares About Me) by Louis Prima (backed by his Las Vegas group, Sam Butera, tenor sax, & the Witnesses, joined by Keely Smith)
11) Things Ain't What They Used To Be by Duke Ellington
12) Lovin' Machine by Wynonie Harris
13) Comin' in Home by Earl Hines & His Orchestra
14) Stop Beatin' 'Round The Mulberry Bush by Fats Waller
15) Muskrat Ramble by Dr Henry Levine's Barefoot Dixieland Philharmonic (with "Professor" Sidney Bechet, soprano sax)
16) I Wanna Hear Swing Songs by The American Jazz Orchestra (with John Lewis)
17) Shiny Stockings by Ella Fitzgerald (with Count Basie & Orch.)
18) 7-0-5 by Glenn Miller & His Orchestra (This 1945 version was officially "The 418th Army Air Force Band" under the direction of Sgt. Jerry Gray)