Swing - Best of The Big Bands (1/3)

Swing music, also known as swing jazz or simply swing, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and became a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States. Swing uses a strong rhythm section of double bass and drums as the anchor for a lead section of brass instruments such as trumpets and trombones, woodwinds including saxophones and clarinets, and sometimes stringed instruments such as violin and guitar, medium to fast tempos, and a "lilting" swing time rhythm. Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement. The danceable swing style of bandleaders such as Benny Goodman and Count Basie was the dominant form of American popular music from 1935 to 1945.
The verb "to swing" is also used as a term of praise for playing that has a strong rhythmic "groove" or drive.
(extract from Wikipedia 2011)

[@Flight_of_Icarus]

I'd love to see some things like this that were popular in 1920, become popular again in 2020.

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

Electro Swing is coming up in the lists

[@JohnSmith-en9yb]

too redundant

[@williammorgan9955]

Iconoclasm_ yu

[@Railhog2102]

This is from the 1940s and early 50s not the 1920s but close though

[@stefantsarev4442]

​@@Railhog2102Big bands became mainstream in the Roaring Twenties. Foxtrot was hip, and jazz started forming as the style everyone knows today.

[@jeansplace1]

2,363,736 listeners - WOW .... OH COME BACK BIG BANDS, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.....

[@danny55531]

+jeansplace1 Yes please! I'm 18 and this is my Jam, played Tenor Saxophone in my High school jazz band.

[@ryanhenderson8594]

+jeansplace1 Yes! I'm 15 and I'm trying to bring this stuff back with kids my age, but they won't stop listening to that rap and whatever else they listen to :/

[@jvanallen91]

+Ryan Henderson get them into a little swing dancing, it can be a lot of fun if they will let loose for a while, it may help them enjoy other music varieties (and yes, you can swing dance to a lot of modern music)

[@ryanhenderson8594]

You can swing dance to modern music?

[@xavierbassa9862]

+jeansplace1 yes please....

[@LenHummelChannel]

*There's no substitute for CLASS, STYLE, & TALENT. they had it.* IN SPADES.

[@kengoodman7719]

Careful now - the cancel culture might think you're racist (because they are stoopid).

[@HasBeensNAddicts]

@@kengoodman7719 its sad that ppl can see something as apolitical as this and have that response. Like bro, get out the house a bit. Politics isn't a sport. Politics isn't fun or exciting. Just enjoy something without having that being the first thing in your mind

[@kengoodman7719]

@@HasBeensNAddicts what's sad is ppl can't see a time and culture that has been lost due to the politics of the left: cancel culture, CRT, and other Marxist ideologies. If you cannot see that, then go back to sleep.

[@davidsotomayor8713]

@@kengoodman7719 the funny part is you sound just as ignorant and "cringy" as the SJW's that call everything racist (just replace the word racist with marxist/communist etc.) 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Not only was it YOU that injected politics into something totally apolitical, but you follow the same lazy-minded "blame everything on those that disagree with me politically" way of thinking.

[@Railhog2102]

This is the era when music was truly music you won't see this nowadays.

[@KuroNeko-sh2by]

Agree. 👍

[@kamarbazarek6460]

B&O5300 today’s “NOISE” - is the flushing of toilets......

[@thomasjamison2050]

As a kid I had a music teacher who called rock and roll 'washing machine music.' There is a truly sad truth to that in many cases.

[@monicabella7894]

HEAR!

[@voidabstraction]

What a silly comment.

[@edwardhannaby]

Truly fantastic. Its great being a swing drummer. Even though a rock band will be paid more than just fuel expenses. The music is everything :)

[@anthonytobin1857]

It should be law that everybody be exposed to this great music !!!

[@510Mrniceguy]

I could listen to swing music every second of my life!!.... I know African Americans didn't live in the best of times back then but I would love to have seen the Rat Pack in person!!

[@ianbeddowes5362]

In those days we had truly great African American bandleaders, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Lionel Hampton, Billy Eckstein to name only a few . Let alone the hordes of truly great musician, black and white. And the best white musicians like Benny Goodman always admitted the imporrtance of their black counterparts. Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton were part of the Goodman band. He would refuse to tour the south because of segregation or put up at segregated hotels anywhere. Now we only have Snoop Dog and rap crap.

[@Thommadura]

@@ianbeddowes5362 Rap is already on the wane - but by definition RAP is not MUSIC it is LYRICS. THE truly great musicians of today are still sought out by performers. ANd there are LOTS of them too. However - instrumental recordings are not currently in Vogue - that will change as it does over the years. THere are still lots of "recording Musicians" ones who may not be with the Band - but play for the recordings because they will get it right when the bands people are not as precise. I did that for over 40 years - completely anonymous by contract.

[@ianbeddowes5362]

@@Thommadura Lyrics? Doggerel

[@margretblair5389]

You had as big as Frank! Has as star on the walk of fame!. Dick Gregory ring a bell. Spirituals!

[@margretblair5389]

​@@ianbeddowes5362The rat pack had the best tap dancer of all time. Sammy Davis Jr.

[@lisanidog8178]

My parents and uncle grew up on this music. This was their time. And I grew up on this music as dad always played his a big Band albums he collected as a kid. His favorites were Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller. Have no doubt he liked Dorsey.

[@sherifsoussou1007]

True, I miss my mother dancing on Swing music, this music influenced my musical gift later on. RIP mother

[@carolpayette854]

My Mom also ❤❤❤

[@chriswilson3687]

Forget what people think, life's too short. Enjoy what you can, when you can.

[@horstklaus4696]

This kind of music will never die, I just can't understand why we can't can't hear it on our major radio stations more often. Maybe it would come back to the young folks too!

[@ApartmentKing66]

I think I can tell ya why we don't hear it on the radio anymore. Radio salespeople can't sell it. Advertisers don't want to sink money into a format that's become too much of a "niche." Not enough of what's called "mass appeal."

[@Thommadura]

@@ApartmentKing66 The fact is - and this is coming from an 84 year old - ALL music is good. IT is all made up of the same notes. Over the years = you had LOTS of artists and performers REMAKE old classics into their own. Change the arrangements like I only have eyes for you - and a song from the 20's became an icon of the early 50's. Lady Gaga is certainly singing a lot of OLD tunes with Tony Bennett as well. However - radio deals in Advertising - and radio stations deal with THEIR audience to get the right mix of People to make their money. AS people get older, they do not CONSUME as much on the things advertised on radio and not a desired audience - so there are few stations that would play such songs. Remembering that the Beatles are now ANCIENT - it all comes around.

[@snappypenguin7891]

there are jazz radio stations, ofc you wont hear it from a major station plagued with random ads and meaningles podcasts

[@benburch]

if you cant understand why this music isnt on major radio stations then you're probably retarded. just being honest.

[@williammock7932]

9

[@henridelagardere264]

00:00 - Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - *Opus One* - _(Sy Oliver)_ 02:40 - Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - *Boogie Woogie* - _(Pinetop Smith)_ 05:54 - The Hi-Los - *Rockin' Chair* - _(Hoagy Carmichael)_ 08:04 - Ray Anthony and His Orchestra - *Skip to My Lou* - _(Traditional)_ 09:48 - Benny Carter and His Orchestra - *Harlequin Bounce* - _(Benny Carter)_ 11:11 - Nat King Cole Trio & Benny Carter and His Orchestra - *Congeroo* 12:58 - Rosemary Clooney & Tony Pastor - *Movie Tonight*

[@yaxel25]

SWING MUSIC IS THE GREATEST MUSIC EVER. I AM 23 YEARS OLD AND THINK THIS MUSIC IS MUCH BETTER THEN ANY OTHER MUSIC

[@zooeyhall]

Although the description of this video describes Swing in the past tense, and seems to associate it with the 1930s-1940s, that is an incorrect assumption. Swing is still popular today, 70+ years on. And young people are re-discovering it and dancing to it-- just like their grandparents did.

[@Lalambz]

I wish this music could be played on the radio! This is awesome!

[@serenity1107]

Depending on where you live, if in a Major metropoltian area they do play swing on the radio! this is some awesome stuff makes ya feel HAPPY makes me want to do dances that I don't know how to do lol

[@r923tf]

I know. Ironically, here in Vegas, they play none of that.

[@serenity1107]

well pandora has swing/big band I love pandora try that and you can even play it in the car if you have the cord plug one end into the phone, and the other end goes into the port on the radio (depending on the year of ya car lol) so I can listen commercial free and only to the Genres that I want in the car as well :) can't believe that VEGAS has no big band or swing music!! ????

[@r923tf]

serenity1107 I also use Pandora. But yeah, all they play here is crappy pop music, electronic, classical, hip-hop/R&B, country, and stuff in Spanish. I know, it's sad. 

[@selahattinask3330]

serenity1107

[@ChandlerThomasvoon100]

Somebody needs to bring this back. I like this music

[@Scoring57]

***** He didn't ask -_-

[@petranagy7560]

yes :)

[@gerrythrash6563]

***** It hasn't. No...it's not nearly as big and popular as it once was, but it's still out there. You just have to know where to look. If you live in a large enough city, you can find big bands playing this music to this day.

[@daxexter2754]

Bastion Thrice Pretty good! Thanks for the Link!

[@isaiahtrent6567]

dude I love this music it gives me chills

[@Grond.Grond.Grond.]

I was born in 1999 and love this kind of music...people at my school thinks I'm so weird...

[@grandplans]

I was born in 1970. I love this music and stuff before this time. It was the same with me. While friends were listening to the 80s rock, I was listening to folk music, 50s and 60s doo wop, 60s rock, the big band era stuff and stuff even earlier. They thought it strange I liked that music. It can feel a bit isolating when you have no one of your piers to talk about that awesome music. Probably why even as a young child, I got along a lot better with people 20 or more years older than me. Old soul? Perhaps....can't help what I like. LOL!

[@louietheduke]

awesome list, Tommy dorsey and Count Bessie are my faves. Of course Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman are great too. They just don't music like this any more :(

[@1951kvk]

My parents had the radio on all the time at home and listened to and danced to this type of music. I love it!

[@vernonalone1925]

Love hearing Big Band music.

[@cyraxthehedgehog]

This music has FALLOUT 4 written all over it

[@orsonwelles3465]

***** Agreed, I'll used play this in the background when I was playing New Vegas.

[@thebreachdoctrine]

***** Fallout 4 confirmed.... if it is your awesome dude!

[@seandowns8041]

***** Haha one can hope...

[@thebreachdoctrine]

***** Yup i'm so excited for it!

[@josephshahady8308]

***** Holy shit it the trailer comes out after he says that

[@wickedwitch8359]

I see my mother dancing all over the house, miss her so much

[@JazzPhrog]

if you see this i want you to know that we are all here for you

[@egonbolte4259]

Das habe ich oft auf AFN gehört, anfangs noch mit Detector und Kopfhörer! 1945! Midnight in Bremen! 🦁

[@carolpayette854]

Oh yes, My Mom too!!!🥰🥰🥰

[@carolpayette854]

You and me both. Our Mother's rocked!!!

[@ricardolagos8246]

I know the feeling of losing perhaps the most important woman in your life

[@generalpatzer6893]

What you hear and see are the best musicians of their time. 70 yrs from now no one will give a shit about Kanye West.

[@Godmason]

Ain't gonna lie, Fallout was what got me into swing. It's just such a happy sound though.

[@jasonkane7231]

For me it was when I somehow noticed a name of a song from Tom & Jerry when I was like 12 and Fallout brought me back to it like two years ago :)

[@zomban55]

Same here :) it's refreshing to listen to after hearing non stop sexual innuendos in radio songs that are played nowadays.

[@Xa_WEh]

zomban55 silence is the best noise

[@oleflogger6828]

Fallout? Are you talkin' 'bout the radioactive kind? Or, is that a band name?

[@Railhog2102]

I got into the Swing era because of Mafia 2. Good times when I played it in my early teen years listening to Empire Central Radio in the 40s part

[@flackyoue7483]

Americans of all cultures used to have a greater sense of the meaning of real music. Everything hollyweird pushes at us today is trash and downright downgrading.

[@dominicguye8058]

***** I agree. Too much sex, too much swearing.

[@CaptAmerica12]

Dominic Guye They put in Sex and language when they have no story. Or don't know how to tell a story.

[@aldeng3608]

***** God. this is so true. I'm guilty of probably swearing more than I should, but I HATE it when they swear in music. it's just AWFUL.

[@SuperGereng]

Alden Lulamoon I feel fortunate that I was reared during the era this music was in full bloom. I rarely hear anything blasting in the cars driven by young men except this hideous noise of rap nor do I see many young people knowing how to dance. Mostly they just stand in front of each other and twitch.

[@aldeng3608]

I know, it's awful. Listen to swing music, then listen to rap, and tell me that our tastes in music haven't devolved! He'll, they don't even Call it music anymore. They call it "beats." God I'm ashamed of my generation.

[@HenrykMoszczynski]

Od tej wspaniałej muzyki zaczęło się w zasadzie wszystko co w muzyce rozrywkowej stanowi o jej istocie.Henryk Moszczyński-Pętkowski POLSKA

[@martacesario7089]

This music is all times...wonderful!

[@javierjorgefernandezlozano4561]

para quienes nos gusta bailar el SWING que mejor las grandes bandas BEST desde mexico un saludo su friend J.J.

[@OztarAntoine]

J'aurais aimé pouvoir écouter cette musique avec mon regretté grand-père. On aurait adoré. Le swing est inter-générationnel.

[@victorbrown3359]

As soon as you play In The Mood at a dance or wedding the dance floor fills up.

[@brainwashedliberals]

what happened to this music?! we need more frank sinatra and big band artists again to counter the crap that's making our population stupid...aka lil wayne etc

[@Rickameron]

we cant have more frank sinatra, hes kind of dead, sorry, im sure he loved you

[@brainwashedliberals]

cameron lynn uhm..it's pretty obvious i was referring to him as an example of a type of artist...

[@Rickameron]

was it obvious? i dont know? maybe? ... the question is , do you believe? in life after love that is?

[@davidmills3152]

Think about it. A dance hall owner would rather pay four young guitarists than twenty-three real intrumentalists. The guitar quartets killed Big Band.

[@Godmason]

Look up Michael Buble. He's pretty damned good.

[@BessesothBarnBandChannel]

I went to watch a swing band up in Kendal a few weeks ago. I went to watch my paly who plays Bass Trombone in the same British Brass Band as me. The music that I heard his swing band playing was so much more enjoyable for the audience that the stuff that we play at our Brass Band Concerts.

[@ChannelMaster720]

I HAVE NEVER HEARD OR SEEN THIS CD. I AM SO GLAD I FOUND IT. ROSEMARY CLOONEY AND NAT KING COLE ARE SO YOUNG! I MISS BOTH OF THEM. I GUESS MOST OF THESE TERRIFIC PLAYERS ARE GONE ON TO THE BIG JAZZ BAND IN THE SKY. SO GLAD WE CAN ENJOY THEIR TYPE OF MUSIC. THIS MUSIC SHOULD BE PLAYED 24/7 ON THE RADIO, JUST LIKE COUNTRY (WHICH I AM GETTING TIRED OF HEARING) AND LET'S DO AWAY WITH THE 70 AND 80'S MUSIC. THIS MUSIC LIFTS YOU UP AND MAKES YOU WANT TO MOVE! SYLVIA! 4/25/21

[@aidennewell4034]

Hello, How are you doing?

[@ChannelMaster720]

@@aidennewell4034 Wonderful as long as I have this great music. Thanks for asking.

[@takopulpfiction]

I was born in 1754 and this music wasn't even out yet but i loved it anyway and people thought i was weird

[@tonys963]

As an art form it stands regal and above. And to see these pillars of musicianship and voice performing on film as they were back in the day is the pinnacle of nostalgia, the real deal.

[@iluvmusikiluvmovies7747]

Pure Music...Pure Class. What comment could I possibly make? The music speaks for itself...very well. Thanks for the upload.

[@pschlosb]

it's because you didn't have to have been alive to appreciate the good ol' days, when life was simple and joyous, you just need to know how crappy things have gotten today to appreciate it

[@cress5508]

I'm going to a WWII USO Show next weekend on a refurbished 1940's train. I'm beyond excited and cannot wait to hep to the jive with other kittens and Jacks.

[@greghaggard8891]

Excellent!!! I've been listening to swing since I first saw 'Swing Kids'.

[@charlesnorte]

A few days ago Quincy Jones said that the american people are forgotten their own music, that is most considerer in rest of the world. Sorry for my English, I hope you understand...

[@godbluffvdgg]

Jazz and classically trained sight reading musicians are so great! The scores are so eloquent and while Inspired by Satan himself :)...IT SWINGS! People of the time called this devil music...:)...Imagine them seeing a Nicki Menaj video today...They'd wreck their bloomers...

[@kroakie4]

Rofl!!! Oh that's hilarious. Yes, they probably would. This is what music is all about. I'm not saying there aren't some really great, talented artists out there today, but, great and talented as they are, they can't hold a flame to this. This is a lost art form. It's great how everybody put their all into it, and how they really loved doing it. Infectious! Today's musicians could learn a few things from the artists and genres of days past.

[@godbluffvdgg]

Sorry I never received notice of your comment...I just saw it this moment...You're right; this is a lost art...It will come back though, just like everything else that is awesome...I'm a child of the 60's, and this stuff was hanging on by a thin thread then...it's only as I approach my autumn years that I have a new appreciation for it... A life filled with music is a life well lived...:)

[@halo101st9]

Born in February, 1943 and only heard this music because the radio was on all day. My mother was listening for the war news. My dad was fighting in Europe with the 79th Division. Consequently, the only music I heard was big band while laying in my crib. I dearly love it and listening to it is so soothing and enjoyable.

[@esMelgadeBAires]

I'M SO IN LOVE WITH THIS :D thank you for sharing! - M!

[@brierepooc8987]

These are some swinga dingaling mad razzle & dazzle cats man!!!

[@Mrblack0ut81]

My mum was a Big Band player... being a single mother , I went everywhere with her. I used to fall asleep to this music. Love it!

[@jamesgodfrey7688]

Mr black,Right on!😊

[@danielatempesta3397]

Anch‘io adoro questo genere. Pelle d‘oca❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@reduke]

i'm currently 15 years old, yet when i listen to this music or watch stuff related to the 30s, it feels like nostalgia, to a time when i wasn't even alive.

[@nathancamillerimusic]

That painful moment when the music stops. *looks to the right - Part "(2/3)" That's better =)!

[@lamiamano]

WHRE IS THIS INCREDIBLE QUALITY GONE ? WONDERFUL PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS GIVIN' OUT A MUSIC LESSON !!

[@margretblair5389]

Sadly it's attack music in rap. Sadly 😥

[@lauranbaker5564]

I love this kind of music. Being a dancer, I love how I can mix ballet and Jazz and create such a funky fresh dance to go with the music. My love for this music came, when a friend of the family would play this all day, when we would visit or when he would visit. It stuck with me even though I screamed that I hated it. It's funny how far we can come over the years.

[@hoko8]

Tolle Musik, die gibt es leider heute nicht mehr.

[@anthonyg8063]

Real musical talent not seen nor heard today.

[@thespoon94]

I'm a 3 year old donkey living in a copper mine in a cliff in Saudi Arabia, flatsharing with a camel, Clint Eastwood and the ghost of Al Capone and I love swing music more than I love shepherds pie, and I love my shepherds pie

[@dredin]

I love Metal but this is good :D

[@lunaria86]

maybe we should considered Swing like the grandpa of Metal xD

[@ODSTALCAPWNED]

Lunaria .........? dont see many connections musically.

[@ODSTALCAPWNED]

Lunaria if swing was to be the grandpa of anything it would probably be hip hop.

[@lunaria86]

Trevor Hazen my comment was about the "fast rythm" between these 2 music. but was a funny comment, not "a serious musical comment or musical essay"

[@SuperGereng]

"Metal" is noise NOT music. I seriously doubt if any of the musicians playing that stuff can even read music.

[@dtokushin]

Love this presentation. I dislike when the music is only accompanied by a still shot of the album cover. To see the actual performances is wonderful. Thank you!

[@jamesgodfrey7688]

D, yeah, but we'll take what we can anymore 😊

[@godbluffvdgg]

Ask a million kids born after 95 who Tommy Dorsey was, none will know...So sad...

[@jazmemyself]

I am only 3 months before being born and this is my favourite music!

[@marionschoebel7148]

My mom would have done the same. On A fasching party she came desguised in a dress of the roaring 20ies and she knew how to dance these melodies!

[@aidennewell4034]

Hello Marion, How are you doing?

[@claudioarielmeyer]

yo conozco en Rosario Santa Fe Argentina una banda que hace swing jazz music, lo hacen muy bien. En esa banda hay un chica que canta y lo hace en ingles

[@lcdc12861]

My Dad taught me about the big bands and will always love them- I do miss him so-

[@aidennewell4034]

Hello Linda, How are you doing?

[@chelpa2]

My Mother passed away last week. She was 88 years old. Classically trained on the piano and music in general.. This was what she dug when she was young and could get away with it. I will dig this shit until I pass. --

[@tonybordonaro5513]

I was lucky to hear this music. It was great.

[@andyhowlett2231]

This music always gives me a lift. The best ones get me whooping at the end.

[@MaxwellWhitaker]

uhh seriously this is so great. hard to reproduce now though :( just so nostalgic

[@67rml]

1951-1952 or later, Mother would set me with my blanky in front of our big cabinet model radio, and I was happy as a clam for hours. This was the kind of wonderful music that kept me perfectly happy, not that she didn't enjoy it as well!

[@janissoulis3940]

grew up with big bands, love them

[@armandonicoletti7493]

QUE HERMOSO ES EL JAZZ AMERICANO Y QUE GRANDES BANDAS TUVO LA DÉCADA DE LOS CUARENTA Y CINCUENTA: HARRY JAMES, TOMMY DORSEY, BENNY GOODMAN, GLEN MILLER, DUKE ELLINGTON, ARTIE SHAW Y TODAS LAS BANDAS DE ESTE COMPACTO MAS Y UN EXCEPCIONAL BATERISTA COMO LO FUE GENE KRUPA.

[@thomasgoldaskii6741]

dope beatz bro dis is so sweg i got 4 20 on dis blazin kush #yolo #disdabomb

[@thechrismackeyorchestra1042]

Looks like TD's band from the Decca years 1950-53 (young Doc Sevrinson in the trmpt sect?) And for those who love swing, there are still many Pro,semi-pro and amateur bands touring, playing for dances etc so when the world returns to the new normal ....get out and support your local bigbands, and dance with the one you love!

[@eameece]

How can you post this and not identify it? Come on, help us out!

[@StrawberryHero]

I agree with you.

[@grdurrbass8792]

The First song is called Opus One The Second one is called Boogie Woogie

[@LaszloSzechenyi]

Hey guys.... I danced and listened to this number with the same band in Asheville, NC in 1950.... yes, I would like to re-live it!! (I'm only 81 now!!)

[@guscross4617]

Bring this music back!!!

[@mikebest5630]

THIS IS MY CHILDHOOD WHAT A TIME AND DURING THE WORLD WAR. WHAT A GIFT....WHAT A JOY,,,,WHAT MUSIC.

[@LyddieTheJester]

This is the kind of music I would love to play loudly on my record player.

[@ChannelMaster720]

Just go ahead and play it Lyddie J. Hall. I like loud music, too, when it is as good as this! SYLVIA! 4/25/21

[@jamesgodfrey7688]

L, you it Baby!

[@paulberman11]

Kennedy your right about how music should just be enjoyed, and that people shouldn't compare two different things. But what he was saying is swing is so pure and hasn't been remastered at all that it will never die. and that nothing will sound so pure again because it's purely instruments with no digital tweaks. Some people just gotta have that swing! but hey I'd listen to rap or swing to get motivated to clean my house :P Music is life, just love it all.

[@mattgraham2835]

i first discovered this stuff when i was 22 and now im 34 and i have two big bands cd's i was surprised how much stuff these people made considering it is the precursor to what would be known as rock n roll and someone did a really nice job protecting these recording cause' this stuff is as old as the old Victrola 78rpm record player my mom said her parents used to play this stuff for for the children back then

[@Thomassonable]

@RPG Collection. Thank you for sharing with us. The music match exactly our 5th May celebration in which Western Europe was free again.

[@34103070674978532046]

I LOVE SWING. Also, my big sister uses swag, I use class.

[@jenking5306]

This era will always go down as big drums and lot's of tonguing!!!

[@Caboose039]

It's strange, I miss this kind of music, yet I'm not old enough to have been around to hear it.

[@johnbailey9408]

Perhaps you are an old soul ❤🎉! I have always liked music that was before I was born and I too feel the same way.

[@jimmykrysa6464]

I was born in 1999 too. I usually listen to rock or trip hop but I think this kind of music is awesome.

[@hexsun6107]

I hate it when people are trying to sound better and more important by saying "Oh, I'm young but I don't listen to that new music of today, I prefer this, I have better musical taste, etc etc." I get it, we have a opinions. But there's no need to make the people who enjoy listening to more modern music feel bad. I love house music and electronic music and funk metal, and I also love this.

[@bellavia5]

+Braden Cerny I like Amy Winehouse. Did'nt know about her music until after she passed- GOD Bless--away.

[@baileyschultz996]

+Braden Cerny i feel the same thing i love the swing in the music !

[@marionschoebel7148]

I love this music. My mother could dance to this music butalso charleston with remarkable skill.

[@TheBealmers]

This is wonderful music! I am younger but I still highly enjoy this type of music. Just if they had music like this now a days instead of all the rap and such. Thank you for this wonderful music.

[@ginesgoncalves4382]

Isto que é musica sensacional, òtima de ser ouvida e apreciada.

[@mecruzn]

Thanks pop for introducing to this wonderful music. 91 years old and still going strong - WWII Veteran. Love you - this much!!!

[@pcv1945]

Glorious days for the music!

[@AnthonySkubic]

I would do anything to relive the late 30's, early 40's.

[@playonkorg]

Realtime recording on the right position for the microphone , that was class recording and prof.musici

[@Dutch-K9-Unit]

Cool music !! better than the crap today.

[@HugoHakvoort]

Even tho I'm a trance guy this sounds cool haha!

[@claudiarobichaud4472]

Boy your not kidding the music of today is really CRAP

[@scottleft3672]

today...lol...they dont even need instruments....just poach others and carioke style...sing along with a violent rant...and....viola!!....payola....what next.

[@aceeksetord3320]

It depends on what one listens to. Back then this was considered decadent, and even though I enjoy this music, I tend to agree. Compared to classical music during the 20's this was very unconventional. But yes, low-qual music is more widely distributed noways.

[@AlaminAhmed-ju9nh]

Marcel Wiggers innit right man just turned 15 and even I hate the new songs that are released now.

[@MissMsMoviesandTV]

I LOVE THIS .. THANK YOU FOR MAKING AND POSTING IT!!! I can't stop my feet!!!!

[@colleman87000]

Bon, alors certes c'est du swing, mais c'est du swing "blanc", donc pas excessivement excitant, enfin pas aussi swingant qu'un orchestre noir, c'est limite guimauve. C'est un orchestre blanc qui joue pour des blancs de la classe moyenne blanche des années 1950. C'est mou.

[@TheMoegig]

I don't see color here. Just good music. Je ne vois pas couleur ici, seulement la bonne musique. Vois yon mon amis.

[@LeonMayonaise]

YOU ARE SO LUCKY TO HAVE DANCED TO THIS! my generation's music is all so wrong :(

[@carlosmazariegos1909]

Extraordinarios arreglos musicales auténtica música original felicitaciones lindisimo

[@ROSSIM02]

92 people are eejits - this sweet, sweet music with the groove

[@reaperrap9]

With a few exceptions, the comments on this musical post seem to come from a bunch of judgmental jackasses, or you are off your meds. I think the fact that a new generation of music lovers is connecting with earlier music is fantastic. Good music is timeless, and there is a lot of it out there from every generation, even today's, if you take the time to look.

[@monicabella7894]

reaperrap9 NATURALLY! But you'll never get ride of old Jazz. Maybe you have to get into it. This video is nice cause live but not the gold standard !

[@slidezone9056]

It's not Big Band. But Brian Setzer is a perfect example. I saw him playing a concert in Japan. And the people were going nuts! Tiger skin coats and pompadours. LOL.

[@williamsgarrison8861]

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[@alexandrite3208]

Disturbed ? check "The Sounds of Silence" by same. But "Sing Sing Sing" ? check it.

[@joer3481]

I'm in a band that is giving young players to play exactly this style of music....its a little frustrating to make "swing" happen these days....so much of this is rarely heard these days....as for the crap, more crap more $$$$

[@jackjacinto7185]

Could somebody upload pic of Dodoy and Vic at the Embassy Ground P.S...Philippines in Tokyo Japan...a.m sure many have have picture,,Ive git nine.

[@skylinegtr96]

This music was back when you had to have actual talent. No computers, Pro Tools just musical talent.

[@HugoHakvoort]

I've to tell you one thing, producing on a computer DOES take talent, sure this does take some more, but try to make a good song on the computer, it's hard ;).

[@ghostboy5346]

+skylinegtr96 Producing does take insane talent. Have you ever tried to make an electronic track? You're delusional if you think electronic music takes no skill to produce. What do those producers spend years doing then?

[@marmite-land]

pro tools are great music tools though, i use them to compose my swing jazz

[@dillonwallace9527]

Big Band music is the best music ever, nothing can compare to it. I was there in WWII and there is where I first heard Big Band music over 60 years ago. I have been a fan since and love it.

[@LEONARDSEED]

Yes swing was the greatest music! I can be listening to the Beattles, who I love, but have to leave it alone and go back to Benny Goodman's 1938 concert just to relax!

[@GlassDeviant]

I wouldn't care to give up modern things just to listen to music I can listen to today anyway. You couldn't have made the comment I am replying to without them after all.