Swing : the best of the big bands /
For nearly two decades the sound of the big bands dominated American music. Those days are captured here through rare film performances by the Swing Era's greatest musicians, bandleaders and singers.
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| Language: | English |
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Universal City, CA :
MCA Home Video,
[1987]
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Table of Contents:
- v.1. Opus one, Boogie woogie / Tommy Dorsey
- Rockin' chair / Hi-Los
- Skip to my Lou / Ray Anthony
- Movie tonight / Rosemary Clooney and Tony Pastor
- Charmaine, Trumpet blues / Harry James
- God bless the child, Now (baby) or never / Billie Holiday
- Redskin rhumba, Pompton turnpike / Charlie Barnet
- On a turquoise cloud, Frankie & Johnny / Duke Ellington
- I'm in a dancing mood / the Blackburn Twins with Marion Colby
- Lover, Leave us leap / Gene Krupa.
- v.2. Skyliner, Jeepers creepers / Charlie Barnet
- Baby don't love me no more, International boogie / Lionel Hampton
- Trumpeter's lullaby, After midnight / Ralph Materie
- Boogie blues / Gene Krupa
- Yes, indeed, Well, git it! / Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey
- Numbers boogie / Sugar Chile Robinson
- Chattanooga choo-choo, Hey ba-ba-re-bop / Tex Benke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra
- Ooh kickeroonie, Route 66 / Nat King Cole
- Eager beaver, Reed rapture / Stan Kenton
- Don't blame me, I cried for you / Sarah Vaughan
- Caldonia, Northwest passage
- Woody Herman.
- v.3. Sweet Georgia Brown, South Rampart Street parade / Jimmy Dorsey
- Them there eyes, That old black magic / Billy Daniels
- Turkey hop / Les Brown
- La tempesta, Do, do, do / Freddy Martin
- History of jazz, Violet blue / Duke Ellington
- Brave bulls, I've got a crush on you / Harry James
- Red bank boogie / Count Basie
- Old man Mose / Teresa Brewer
- Stompin' at the Savoy, Melody in F / Gene Krupa
- If I didn't care, In a shanty in old shanty town
- Ink Spots
- Smooth sailing, Murder at Peyton Hall / Charlie Barnet.
- v.4. One o'clock jump, Swingin' the blues / Count Basie
- Am I blue?, Lover / Jimmy Dorsey
- I've got a gal in Kalmazoo, Little brown jug / Tex Beneke-- Paper doll, Opus one / Mills Brothers
- All Anthony and no Cleopatra, Mr. Anthony's boogie / Ray Anthony
- Sweet chariot, Darktown strutters ball / the Skylarks
- Artistry in rhythm, Tabu / Stan Kenton
- That old black magic, Sing, sing, sing / Louis Prima
- Burn, Not so quiet please / Buddy Rich.