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Chatanooga Choo Choo with the Glenn Miller Orchestra featuring Dorothy Dandridge and The Nicholas Brothers! The Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge dance and sing in this video – from the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade. This will be the song for the “1.5 level” Choreography project, on Monday nights in January – March! The really …

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Here’s a terrific Judy Garland tune, Get Happy, that we’re considering including in the Bees’ Knees 2013 show, Swing Goes To the Movies.

One of the best loved songs of even today’s swing dance community is the 1920’s classic, “I Like Pie, I Like Cake”.

I always enjoy finding different versions of songs. Although the Fats Waller version that Mandi uses in her warm-up is the first one that comes to mind for me, here’s a less common version of a classic that everyone knows.

Here’s an interesting alternate version of Take the “A” Train as sung by Ella Fitzgerald.

It’s only fitting that we prepare for Swing Out To Victory 2012 with the song with the same title by Fats Waller.

Neat — just found this song, with info that it was the basis of Glenn Miller’s hit. In the notes, there’s even reference to another song before this one — called Clarinet Getaway, by the Jimmy O’Bryant Washboard Wonders, 1925.

This is my favourite Halloween swing tune. Check it out!

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Did you know that Louis Armstrong’s wife was also a fantastic bandleader?