Adam Swanson LIVE (“Halloween Concert 2024”)

[@jimcascagnette]

'Ghost Riders In The Sky' was so much fun to listen to. Thanks!

[@judywong7352]

Love the lighted witch ghost standing on the table behind you, Adam. It blinks in time to your spooky playing! SCARY! Happy Halloween! 🎃👻👺💀

[@paulspirek3063]

Like your rendition of The Vamp

[@paulspirek3063]

You surprised me with a piano “gunshot” in there for Frankie and Johnny!

[@DisneyBatchman]

Very nice! Have been listening to old Hallowe'en music this week, and you played a couple of pieces I'd been hearing from there ... plus Trick or Treat. I hadn't known it was originally from a Donald Duck cartoon, but I'm not surprised it's connected to Disney, since I've heard Disney use it in live shows around the parks for decades! I'd leave a link to a live performance, but KZbin seems to remove those, even when they are to KZbin, itself.

[@dwoodrufff]

Live performance 10/27/2024 Timestamps: 0:00:12 - 0:00:30 Ragtime Nightmare (Tom Turpin 1900) 0:02:22 - 0:02:57 Carbarlick Acid (Clarence C Wiley 1901) 0:05:46 - 0:06:13 Skeleton Rag (Percy Wenrich 1911) 0:10:42 - 0:11:31 Frankie and Johnny (Frank and Bert Leighton 1912); St James Infirmary Blues (unknown 1928) 0:15:37 - 0:16:13 Buffoon (Zez Confrey 1932) 0:19:37 - 0:20:08 Vamp the (Byron Gay 1919) 0:23:05 - 0:23:45 Dead Man Blues (Jelly Roll Morton 1926) 0:27:45 - 0:28:26 Graveyard Blues (Clarence Woods 1916) lyrics: John S Caldwell 0:31:10 - 0:31:46 Bone-Head Blues (George L Cobb alias Leo Gordon 1917) 0:34:45 - 0:35:42 Russian Rag (George L Cobb 1918) [based on Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp minor Op3 No2] 0:40:11 - 0:40:31 Lazybones (Hoagy Carmichael 1933) lyrics: Johnny Mercer 0:43:56 - 0:45:00 Ghost of the St. Louis Blues (J Russell Robinson 1929) 0:49:45 - 0:50:35 Desecration Rag (Felix Arndt 1914) based on: Humoresque; Rhapsody No2; Hungarian Rhapsody; Rustle of Spring; Scherzo; Polonaise; Funeral march 0:55:28 - 0:57:03 Sneak the (Nacio Herb Brown 1922) piano roll pb Zez Confrey 1:04:35 - 1:05:37 House is Haunted by the Echo of your Last Goodbye (Basil G Adlam 1934) lyrics: Billy Rose 1:09:48 - 1:10:26 Riders in the Sky [Ghost Riders in the Sky] (Stan Jones 1948) 1:14:52 - 1:16:46 Trick or Treat (Mack David, All Hoffman, Jerry Livingston 1948) 1:19:46 - 1:20:50 Grim Grinning Ghosts (Buddy Baker 1969) lyrics: Francis Xavier Atencio 1:25:26 - 1:25:58 Chopsticks (Billy Mayerl 1927) 1:28:20 - 1:29:27 Red Slipper Rag (Glenn Rowell & Johnny Maddox c1965)

[@botzees]

I was wondering about the Jellyroll Morten piece, Grandpa's Spells. Are they like dizzy spells or magical spells. Maybe old Gramps had a bit of voodoo in his heritage. Just wondering if you or anyone else knows about this song title and how it relates to the music. :)

[@maryellenmogee5036]

Of course I know of Theda Beta, but not this tune. I would say what you are playing frequently in this music I know as "vamping;" any connection?

[@adamgswanson]

Yes, the old musical saying, "Vamp till ready"! I assume there is a connection... the oom pah bass. And the name is spelled "Theda Bara."