Music Appreciation
Related: About this forum"Sing, Sing, Sing" By Benny Goodman 📀 Swing Classic
- Written by Louis Prima in 1935 and one of the most famous jazz songs of the Big Band Era. Fantastic horns 🎺 and Gene Krupa on drums.
"Benny Goodman was the Metal of the 1930s!"
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- Louis Leo Prima, The King of Swing (Dec. 7, 1910 Aug. 24, 1978) was an American trumpeter, singer, entertainer, and bandleader.
While rooted in New Orleans jazz, swing music, and jump blues, Prima touched on various genres throughout his career: he formed a 7-piece New Orleans-style jazz band in the late 1920s, fronted a swing combo in the 1930s and a big band group in the 1940s, helped to popularize jump blues in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s, and performed frequently as a Vegas lounge act beginning in the 1950s.
From the 1940s through the 1960s, his music further encompassed early R&B and rock 'n' roll, boogie-woogie, and Italian folk music, such as the tarantella. Prima made prominent use of Italian music and language in his songs, blending elements of his Italian and Sicilian identity with jazz and swing music. At a time when ethnic musicians were discouraged from openly stressing their ethnicity, Prima's conspicuous embrace of his Sicilian ethnicity opened the doors for other Italian-American and ethnic American musicians to display their ethnic roots... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Prima
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(24,504 posts)Goodman and Krupa, though, whoa. Dad was a huge fan and heard this a lot in the 50s. Armstrong, Dorsey, Miller, Congdon, too.
Kind of explains my gravitation to Garcia and Kreutzmann.
appalachiablue
(41,146 posts)who danced to the music of Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman live, a blast! Your dad was a good influence with great taste.
Here's a post I recently did on SWING, esp. Youth in 1930s Germany who danced to the popular new jazz music in clubs in Hamburg and risked the wrath of Nazis who despised 'decadent, modern American music.'
A film about the unconventional German kids was made in the 1993 with Christian Bale, "Swing Kids."
Thanks for replying, and Swing Heil!
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- Hooked On Swing - Big Band Jazz Music - Larry Elgart. Swingjugend Youth, Nazi Germany
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034112086
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)The way the parts cascade, that thundering drum thing Krupa's doing.
I can see why my dad love Benny & Gene was he was a kid.