High school swingers

[Icarus]

The term swinger did not always imply the recently current implication of sexual promiscuity. Old folks thought swing was a certain type of energetic music. Here is an example that is truly unique in that it is American music done with astounding competance by Japanese high school girls. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=L7N6slVrQeY&vq=medium

[Ecurb Noselrub]

The Japanese are good at copying things. I want to believe they are actually performing - hope they just aren't "swing-syncing."

[Sandra Craft]

Now that is dancing music.  I'm going to have to look up that movie.

[Firebird]

The japanese really dig jazz music, which I always found interesting. My impression of their culture was always more regimented than something as free-form as jazz. Shows how little I know. Though I always prefer the Benny Goodman version of "Sing Sing Sing". Just doesn't sound right without the clarinet.

[markmcdaniel]

This is about the only form of Jazz that I like. Its interesting that the Japanese have taken to it.

[Tank]

I loved that.

[OldGit]

The Japanese are good at copying things. I want to believe they are actually performing - hope they just aren't "swing-syncing."

I get that feeling, too.  Mechanically brilliant, I'd like to think there was more to it than technical excellence.

[Crow]

The Japanese are good at copying things. I want to believe they are actually performing - hope they just aren't "swing-syncing."

I think they are as it's part of a TV series and it sounds like a recording rather than a live performance. But regardless the music is good and the original is by Benny Goodman if people wanted to know.

This is Japanese Jazz, it has a high bebop influence mixed with free form and very very fast unlike a lot of American and European jazz.

[Crow]

By any chance does anyone know what the swing samples are in this track? I know most the ones from the 1960's onwards, but they are mainly from where the drum lines come from and the vocal samples.

[Sandra Craft]

I think they are as it's part of a TV series and it sounds like a recording rather than a live performance.

I thought it was from this movie: Swing Girls.

[Crow]

I think they are as it's part of a TV series and it sounds like a recording rather than a live performance.

I thought it was from this movie: Swing Girls.

So it is! I was also wrong about the original being by Benny Goodman, it was actually by Louis Prima back in 1936 but was made famous by Benn Goodman.

[Ali]

Am I the only one who clicked on this thread hoping for some titilating gossip about what kinds of perversion kids these days are getting into?

[En_Route]

Am I the only one who clicked on this thread hoping for some titilating gossip about what kinds of perversion kids these days are getting into?

Are there any new ones  left to be discovered?

[Crow]

Am I the only one who clicked on this thread hoping for some titilating gossip about what kinds of perversion kids these days are getting into?

Are there any new ones  left to be discovered?

Nah just the old forgotten good ones being rediscovered.

[En_Route]

Am I the only one who clicked on this thread hoping for some titilating gossip about what kinds of perversion kids these days are getting into?

Are there any new ones  left to be discovered?

Nah just the old forgotten good ones being rediscovered.

Good to hear. I wouldn't like to have missed out.