velocette
(Puget Sound, beneath the volcanoes) | | Posted: Mar 22, 2012 - 22:20 | |
nevar23 wrote:It is physically impossible to remain still while listening to this.  Only if you're dead! (Okay, at the volume I've got this cranked to, not even then....) |
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JsDad
(Chapel Hill, NC) | | Posted: Mar 11, 2012 - 18:49 | |
JsDad wrote:Wonder where this ranks in Songs Used in Movies? Probably behind Ode to Joy... To answer part of my own question it's been used in 26 films - 27 if you count the Benny Goodman Story... |
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JsDad
(Chapel Hill, NC) | | Posted: Mar 11, 2012 - 18:38 | |
Wonder where this ranks in Songs Used in Movies? Probably behind Ode to Joy...
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fredriley
(Nottingham, UK) | | Posted: Feb 20, 2012 - 05:01 | |
oldsaxon wrote:1936 this was written. There are a few rap songs, some rock tunes that will be this good after that many years, but the thing about swing is it wants you to dance...that's all, just dance. The world is in a great big mess, the economy is just starting to recover a bit, and there's stuff going on in Europe that seems unsettling, but come dance and spend some cash and feel good...Don't think about the mess in Europe, don't fret about the Fascists. Prohibition has been repealed...Time to party...let's dance!
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Lakeview
(Great White North) | | Posted: Feb 20, 2012 - 05:00 | |
Cranked it! Great recording of a great song.
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oilydwarf
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NeuroGeek
(Just Way Out There) | | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 07:49 | |
Less often would be more...
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oldsaxon
(United Kingdom) | | Posted: Jan 19, 2012 - 11:37 | |
1936 this was written. There are a few rap songs, some rock tunes that will be this good after that many years, but the thing about swing is it wants you to dance...that's all, just dance. The world is in a great big mess, the economy is just starting to recover a bit, and there's stuff going on in Europe that seems unsettling, but come dance and spend some cash and feel good...Don't think about the mess in Europe, don't fret about the Fascists. Prohibition has been repealed...Time to party...let's dance!
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dpvest
(northern cali) | | Posted: Jan 19, 2012 - 11:01 | |
this song made my neck tired...
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bitbanger
(Upper West Side) | | Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 13:58 | |
I know that time relegates the inferior to obscurity and makes it hard to judge but this was one butt kicking time in American music, furshur. |
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nevar23
(Georgia) | | Posted: Dec 07, 2011 - 10:10 | |
It is physically impossible to remain still while listening to this. |
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obstetricus
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I guess it works for variety's sake
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mrdak
(Middle GA) | | Posted: Dec 07, 2011 - 10:08 | |
From faded to Fantastic..... |
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Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet) | | Posted: Dec 07, 2011 - 10:07 | |
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impediguy
| | Posted: Nov 05, 2011 - 19:23 | |
Hannio wrote:This makes me think of dear old da freezing in his foxhole in the Ardenne in December '44, having been called back to the front when his leave was cut short. He was at a Benny Goodman concert in Paris when the MPs showed up and ordered everybody back to their units.
Isn't music like a reel-to-tape of our lives? And what I mean about our lives is a chronicle of feeling alive, not a deprecation of history.
Moreover, I tried out and held a seat in my University's Jazz Band for five years, and so I can say with conviction that James Horners Bands's (or Benny Goodman's original) performance of this tune will never be equalled by ordinary mortals. Truly "god like". |
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LizK
(Houston, Texas) | | Posted: Nov 05, 2011 - 19:12 | |
10! This'll get the ol' dogs moving! Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. Gene Krupa on drums, Lionel Hampton on xylophone. This was a Christmas gift to my dad, who played it till the record went to vinyl heaven.
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Bridieboo
(Halifax, NS) | | Posted: Nov 05, 2011 - 19:08 | |
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olivertwist
(Atlanta GA) | | Posted: Oct 21, 2011 - 06:01 | |
The last song by Ben Harper almost put me back to sleep this morning, but this certainly is brightening my mood! |
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Hannio
(Austin, TX) | | Posted: Oct 05, 2011 - 05:30 | |
This makes me think of dear old da freezing in his foxhole in the Ardenne in December '44, having been called back to the front when his leave was cut short. He was at a Benny Goodman concert in Paris when the MPs showed up and ordered everybody back to their units.
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Andy_B
(aboard MV "Horizon," east coast Fla) | | Posted: Sep 19, 2011 - 14:19 | |
kcar wrote:
LOL. That whirring sound you hear is Benny Goodman, spinning in his grave. Actually, this song is from the 30s. My all-time fave version is by Goodman et al. at Carnegie Hall in 1938. All-star band, great groove, very appreciative audience. I'm sure everyone whipped out their lighters at the end of the concert...
Amen. This is good but doesn't hold a candle to Goodman's Carnegie Hall concert version recorded live. My dad had a dance band in the 30's and this was one of his favorite albums. I grew up on this and eventually played tenor sax (as he did-he also played tenor banjo and accordian) in our high school dance band. We played a lot of swing from the 30s and 40s era. |
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Cynaera
(In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.) | | Posted: Sep 19, 2011 - 14:17 | |
mem_313 wrote:man I wish I would have learned to swing dance at some point in my life. It's never too late, mem_313!  I'm thinking about taking a dance class at the local college here. I qualify for FAFSA (Financial Aid), so I could take dance and maybe an academic course, too... It would be a great way to spend my time on "hiatus" (translation: unemployment.) |
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moonsaura
(MD) | | Posted: Sep 19, 2011 - 14:17 | |
9...>10 made me dance @ work. yay!
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nevar23
(Georgia) | | Posted: Sep 19, 2011 - 14:15 | |
Love this song! *bops* |
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OldStyle
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I can't believe this just came on. I STOPPED leaving the office to say: What a great recording of a great song. You can't even buy this soundtrack anymore. Thanks for playing it! You made my day!
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That_SOB
(In at least 2 places at once) | | Posted: Aug 19, 2011 - 05:54 | |
It's Copasthetic so let's Go Cat Go !!!
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Alexandra
(Here and Now) | | Posted: Aug 19, 2011 - 05:49 | |
kcar wrote:
LOL. That whirring sound you hear is Benny Goodman, spinning in his grave. Actually, this song is from the 30s. My all-time fave version is by Goodman et al. at Carnegie Hall in 1938. All-star band, great groove, very appreciative audience. I'm sure everyone whipped out their lighters at the end of the concert...
Oops...well, my mom used to dance to it in college (1941-1945), so I just assumed......definitely the WWII era. *flicks her lighter* |
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Alexandra
(Here and Now) | | Posted: Aug 19, 2011 - 05:48 | |
I would love to go back in time and be the drummer for this song.........what PHENOMENAL licks throughout the tune...
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Decoy
(Milliway's, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe) | | Posted: Aug 19, 2011 - 05:44 | |
just sat down with a cup of coffee ready to tackle the day, when this song starts up. Today is going to be a good day.
(Everyday is a good day)
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kcar
| | Posted: Aug 03, 2011 - 09:37 | |
Alexandra wrote:This is the Stairway to Heaven of 1940s big band music.  It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. LOL. That whirring sound you hear is Benny Goodman, spinning in his grave. Actually, this song is from the 30s. My all-time fave version is by Goodman et al. at Carnegie Hall in 1938. All-star band, great groove, very appreciative audience. I'm sure everyone whipped out their lighters at the end of the concert... |
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martinc
(Ottawa Canada) | | Posted: Aug 03, 2011 - 09:33 | |
RP exerts its eclectic muscle. Not my cup of tea but I'll take one for the team as Bill played one side of the Thick as Brick yesterday that seemed to trouble many but made me smile.
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