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name artist bpm length album year
Intro / Time’s Gettin’ Tougher Than Tough – Jimmy Witherspoon with Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Woody Herman, Earl Hines, Vernon Alley, Mel Lewis – 134 – 3:35 – The ‘Spoon Concerts [...]
Goats: THROWN!
By dogpossum On 7th January, 2013 · 2 Comments · In 8 tracks, djing, lindy hop and other dances, music, same sex dancing
Imperial Swing from dogpossum on 8tracks Radio.
Last weekend I DJed my first proper lindy hop set since November, and it was super fine. It was the first set of the night at Imperial Swing, a social gig put on by Swing Out Sydney. [...]
I love small swing groups, and Riverwalk Jazz are doing a show on them this week called Goodman, Shaw & Dorsey: Big Band Leaders and Their Small Combos. It features a few of my favourite small groups, most of which make for good (though fairly precise, and dare I say it, uptight) dancing.
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A-one, a-two, a-you know what to do!
By dogpossum On 29th May, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In 8 tracks, djing, lindy hop and other dances, lolfrankie, music
A-one, a-two, a-you know what to do! from dogpossum on 8tracks.
This month has been Frankie Manning month for me, teaching two Frankie themed classes a week (lindy hop and solo jazz), visiting Melbourne for the Shiny Stockings weekend with Chazz Young, [...]
‘New’ music for lindy hopping from dogpossum on 8tracks.
This is (part of) a set I did last week. I wanted to combine some new stuff (the New Sheiks in particular) with some very familiar stuff (Now You Has Jazz), [...]
Charlie Shavers Plays The Trumpet
By dogpossum On 23rd February, 2012 · 7 Comments · In 8 tracks, cat blogging, lindy hop and other dances, lolfrankie, music
[Portrait of Charlie Shavers, National studio, New York, N.Y., ca. May 1947] (LOC), originally uploaded by The Library of Congress.
Charlie Shavers Plays The Trumpet from dogpossum on 8tracks.
I’m a big fan of Charlie Shavers, but [...]
Eleven charming songs. Some of them are serious and some of them are not. I don’t think I’d count any of them as lindy hop songs. But all of them are suitable for dancing the fandango wearing only a marmot after drinking entire bottle of gin (as suggested by @ARPy_ and encouraged [...]
I’ve just done a new 8tracks:
These are just ten slower songs with women singers. Singers who have voices that make me stop and pay attention, or versions of songs that I’m just not sure about. These are probably, then, songs warranting a little suspicion. A [...]
This is an 8tracks set of songs that drive me CRAZY: it is impossible to get these melodies out of my brainz. They all have shocking earworm melodies. They’re also all AWESOME!
title artist album bpm year length
W.P.A. Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers The Complete [...]
Eddie Condon: Everywhere, All The Time
By dogpossum On 26th June, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In 8 tracks, djing, lindy hop and other dances, music
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Photo by William Gottlieb in 1946 from the Library of Congress William P. Gottlieb Collection.
Eddie Condon. Chicagoan guitarist who just went on and on and on. Telly, albums, night club. The jazz brand of win. Was also in some brilliant bands. I don’t actually [...]
