Swing Kids (1993) - The Benny Goodman Orchestra - Sing, Sing, Sing Reaction

[@msoda8516]

I liked this movie it came out when I was in high school. It got me and my friends into the music. When I had me sweet 16 we played the soundtrack and my granny and my great aunt got up and started teaching all of us the dance they did at teenagers in the 40’s. It’s one of my best memories is swing dancing with my granny.

[@rockyroad3665]

Some generations were way cooler than we could ever be!

[@tiffanygrever8092]

The 1920 and the 1940s ruled.

[@DarkAngel1985Mike]

Love this movie and soundtrack

[@njtopcatt]

One of the greatest movies out there. I used to listen to Bie Mir before every hockey game and close my eyes because of what it ment in this movie.

[@haraldisdead]

Such an underrated film

[@jordimoore2167]

This was my parents generation. I've always thought it was the coolest time period.

[@anniesmolkin7685]

The message in the movie is bigget than the dancing which of course is soectacular . I recommend a review of the movie . It relates so much today the way we regard our fellow human beings and the message is never again .

[@nanroberts1502]

My parents played Big Band music (major sound system.) They were in their 20s in the 1930s. I love the clip with Louis Prima playing Sing, Sing, Sing. I never got how radical the music and dancing were until now. I grew up in the '60s, and I thought we were radical. I was so wrong. I know the dancers in the movie are pros, and I doubt my parents ever danced that way. But wow, it's amazing. That music is amazing. I can't watch the whole movie. I just can't take the Nazis. I'm going to learn how to swing dance, though. Way more fun than what we did.

[@davidjones5547]

This was a very under rated movie.

[@baron7755]

I know you were focusing on the music, but have you ever watched the whole movie? Its pretty powerful

[@DarkAngel1985Mike]

Yeah I grew up in the 90’s during the Swing revival

[@user-bd2my6dw1p]

Frankie Manning brought swing back Take a look at the documentary about his life

[@dogperson432]

I am also grateful to the movie. It's very fashionable right now for people to attack anything from the swing revival era as "problematic" in some way but I don't think rejecting everything that got us here is very smart and it's certainly disrespectful.

[@streetsmartswing]

Thanks for sharing your perspective. You may want to edit the profanity out of your comment to remain in line with my community standards. (I’ve got kids that watch my show and I’m trying to give them a good example of civility.

[@dogperson432]

@@streetsmartswing done

[@josefschiltz2192]

@@streetsmartswing I was really enjoying it until I doubled back to the beginning and realized what year this was set, then I started tearing up. I haven't seen the movie. Didn't know of it's existence. I was just scrolling through some clips of Benny Goodman.

[@honestabe1940]

I don't know what that music was but it was not, "Sing, Sing, Sing"!

[@DarkAngel1985Mike]

If I was a kid living in Nazi Germany I would have been a swing kid

[@streetsmartswing]

Did you see this movie before becoming a swing dancer?

[@karenmessina4361]

I did. Always wanted to learn as a kid. My parents were great dancers, not so good as teachers. Finally learned in my forties.

[@winniefu6421]

Yep! It was my first introduction to swing!

[@ladybfromnyc]

BATMAN DANCES!!!;

[@alyssaferaci1133]

I don't remember the scene being that way....but this was in the movie kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5rFc4l_jtyEjdU

[@katchinska]

"what do you think of this swing dance clip" Now a days, i think its corney. Its obviously somebodies (probably Thomas Carter, the director) interpretation of what swing dancing was in the 40's. I imagine he gathered inspiration from clips from old movies like hellzapoppin just like us dancers do. I dont know for sure but my guess is that even movies like hellzapoppin were a characterization of swing dancing and not an actual representation of what went on at the savoy. Was there ever a time where people threw ariel after ariel on a crowded dance floor? But you know, what production doesnt play up the flashy aspects of a dance? Its just what you do if youre playing to a crowd isnt it? When i saw the movie around 2001, the dance was being taken out of the homes and small clubs and getting spread amongst the masses. Dance camps were even springing up in other countries. New bands were coming up with new music and some of it was even hitting the top 40 charts (well at least being played on our local radio stations) and it felt like everyone was going to start swing dancing. It felt like there was no slowing down and like it was going to permeate everything. In short it felt great, like not only could you go here to find a sense of belonging but like it was also going to be the cool new thing that everybody did. And then it just completely leveled off. Somewhere between 2006 to 2012 (I know this is a very texas perspective but im going to go with the canceling of the lonestar championship in austin). All the momentum just plateaued. But yeh, the movie was ok as far as movies go. Not great by any means but a solid C. As a dance movie Id give it an even better grade. like B+.

[@streetsmartswing]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

[@MelanieAF]

I thought the German swing kids danced darn well considering their very limited access to learning the moves, what with Nazi movie censorship and all, which I assume would’ve been their primary way to see swing dancing and learning the moves (and taking into account that this is a movie-I wonder how the real Swing Kids danced? I’d bet they did the acrobatic moves well, considering the importance of physical culture in Germany at the time).

[@ReneChewbaka]

I don't understand how you would think swing is corny? Please explain....the generation prior to swing referred to it as debauchery....maybe you're an old soul from generations past?

[@ReneChewbaka]

Swing "heil"... Hitler banned all black musicians and their music from Germany during the third reich... however, Count Basie slipped through because Hitler thought, based on his title being "Count", that he was a noble.

[@streetsmartswing]

Thanks for sharing exactly how you feel.