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Australia, Barry White, Benny Goodman, Big Bad Voodoo, Billy Field, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, Chuck “Wagon” Maultsby and The Wheels, George Melly, humour, Joe Jackson, music, Non Stop Dancers, The Porkers, The Specials, Warrigal
Jumpin’, Jivin’ an’ Swingin’ Like Tiger Woods
By Warrigal Mirriyuula
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQpZT3GhDg&feature=related
Duke Ellington It Don’t Mean A Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6IUqrFHjw&feature=related
The Ink Spots Java Jive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ffdwBUL78
Mary Ford & Les Paul How High The Moon (“Does that mean 24 tracks?” the host asks innocently. Yes! It Does! This was the first time this was done and it represents a huge leap forward for multi-track recording. The sort of thing you can buy 64 digital tracks of for under two hundred bucks and stick it on your computer these days.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=027HcOsmsic
Gino Vanelli Jack Miraculous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk6fcGL1DI0&feature=fvsr
The Mavericks Tonight The Boogie Let Me Down (Go hard you good thing! Watch the guitarist, and the drummer, oh look, just watch them all! What a band!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MfDmu5WB_0&feature=related
Raul Malo A Fool Such As I (Because you simply can’t have too much of a good thing!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhJLqeAUcA0&feature=related
Chuck “Wagon” Maultsby and The Wheels My Girlfriend Passed Out In Her Food
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IqH3uliwJY&playnext=1&list=PL6B48D9D21F287BCA
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies Zoot Suit Riot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tYFC4aWyo8
Joe Jackson Jumpin’ Jive (You can hear why FOH guys call the Entertainment Centre the “empty container centre”.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHWcN5YxuYc
Brian Setzer Orchestra Jump Jive an’ Wail (This Stray Cat isn’t aging well.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62ZSQUyU00s
Benny Goodman Sing Sing Sing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7KLA52Xy2g&feature=related
Non Stop Dancers Shake This city (Trivia: Larry Van Kriedt, the tall angular sax player, is the son of Dave Brubeck Quartet saxophonist Dave Van Kriedt.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WhhSBgd3KI
The Specials Ghost Town (The Specials go cruising for Caspar in MJ’s Zephyr)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyCjExc72Xw
Joe Jackson Beat Crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO-UdXViyo0
Barry White The Time Is Right
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBBJZDCk6tY
George Melly My Canary’s Got Circles Under His Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xphZkAiJve0
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy King of Swing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eETES1xP-IM
Billy Field Bad Habits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhtGUt703oA
The Porkers Swingin’ Like Tiger Woods (This Newcastle band should be our house band. Whaddayarekkon?)
Keywords: Chuck “Wagon” Maultsby and The Wheels, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, Joe Jackson, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Benny Goodman, Non Stop Dancers, The Specials, Barry White, George Melly, Big Bad Voodoo, Billy Field,The Porkers
Tonight The Boogie Let Me Down (Go hard you good thing! Watch the guitarist, and the drummer, oh look, just watch them all! What a band!)
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
…….Just a note of appreciation to you here Warrigal; and I’ll avoid your hypocorism here; just to keep an English semblance.
You have been diligent in maintaining your theme (swinging), (ho ho, I nearly Freudian’d, ‘swining’). So full marks and thanks–as I have now listened, after returning from The Bundall Farmer’s Market, where one can feel the bonhomie emanating from every bustling buyer- and every earnest purveyor. In fact I remarked to one fellow, who inadvertently jostled me for a position at the (Australian grown) coffee stall, how friendly and polite every one was at the market. He avidly agreed.
(I collected a kilo of ‘Dutch Creams’, that I had left on a stall last week, when had I ferreted for some change to help the vendor: he remembered and we chuckled, as I added half a kilo, to increase his prosperity in return for his honesty.)
I was relieved after spotting Brubeck’s name to see that it was in fact ‘not’ one of his pieces. I don’t know why, but I never got to grips with modern jazz, and have more of a penchant for Trad. Going back to Bix Beiderbeck, or more recently Kenny Ball, or Chris Barber. And of course The Late Great George Melly falls into that category. For me anyway!
I have always had a soft spot for Joe Jackson, especially as he hails from Pompey; a seagull’s dive from The Island (“The Island”, was explained to gerard, in Lehan’s Neighbourhood blog.) But this was an odd inclusion, I thought , given your chosen genre. BUT, some tiny brain-cell reminds me, that you had previously expressed a liking for him. On UL perhaps.
My mother’s garage has boxes of jazz and opera vinyl: a collection that my late father built up. It has been slightly depleted by my brother, who plays it regularly in his Sunshine Coast home── while reading his Chomsky, and perma-culture literature, no doubt 🙂
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I’m glad you continue to enjoy the lists, but you give too much weight to theme. I assemble these lists by just following my instincts. Start somewhere, end up somewhere else. They’re never meant to be either definitive or even representative. They are just as the list takes me. The title, when I can be bothered, comes after the illustration.
And see, just for Vox, your response has highlighted a significant difference between us. I like modern jazz, Miles, MJQ, Quincey Jones blah blah, and cannot abide trad jazz as it ‘s usually presented, by silly white men in ridiculously small bowler hats and flash waist coats.
A traditional New Orleans funeral is another thing.
Also just for clarity, could you please translate “hypocorism” for me and let me know its meaning in this context. I wouldn’t want to misconstrue any critique you may offer.
And now I must go and feed the Butcher Birds. They’re singing on the back balcony, demanding mince for their continued performance.
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RE: hypocorism.
I don’t know your ‘real’ given name. Therefore your online name is, to me, your given, christian, or first name–or like Madonna, Aristotle & Bjork your only name (if I leave out Mirriyuula,, you do, often.
Well, Emmjay anointed you as Waz: a pet name, or an endearment——-such as you attached to Swan, for instance.
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I tried hard to like modern jazz, God knows I had to listen to loads of it in London clubs. You may have missed my note relating a story about a business partnership that I had, with a saxophonist, named Jack Sharpe. He played in the Tubby Hayes band prior to my meeting him in Spain.
Anyway, I attended myriad of sessions where they all played free form jazz, and seemed to know when their solos should cut in ….even after 15 mins of unidentifiable jamming. Ronnie Scott was his great friend and we went to his club sometimes. But there were others…Actually they often had jamming sessions at the club that Jack and I ran. He was in the house band.
I always looked for a structure in this free-form, but it was often absent, except to an afficianodo, another muso, or the players. And I often felt that with modern jazz. I used to get the urge to pick up a harmonica, or drum sticks (I dabbled in drums), or anything really and just blow and press. I figured that I’d get as good a result.
I could write reams really, but I must go now and see what the tradies DID NOT do in our renovation. Were behind by 1 week…excuses..excuses.
Oh well I’ll hit send apoligies for bad grammar or such like!
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Uh – You probably know that regular feeding is frowned upon, Warrigal, but I thought I’d mention it just in case.
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VoVo, I should be feeding them live larvae or arthropods but it’s too much trouble keeping live food. The feeding regime started last year when I noticed that the Butchers tolerated all the other birds that visit our back balcony; Rainbow Lorikeets, Sulphur Crested Cockies, Magpies, Currawongs, Kookaburras, Noisy Mynas but will not tolerate, even for a moment, the Indian Mynas. So the Butchers are a biological control mechanism. I feed the Butchers a little minced meat, just a few grams each morning and evening, not enough to unbalance their bush diet, and they keep the Indian Mynas away.
Also, two of the most wonderful sounds in the world are Magpie and Butcher song and I’d really miss them if they stopped dropping in. A few grams of mince is nothing to the heart ringing joy of a tribe of Magpies and Butchers all warbling and whistling together. Just magic.
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Yes, the gentle warbling of the magpie.
I feed my birds from the garden. Today there was a pair of lorikeets feeding from the dwarf banksias I planted years ago on my nature strip. The tall council planted banksias are only a couple of years old and haven’t flowered yet. Somehow I got the idea into my head that they are swamp banksias, but I can’t remember how. They replaced some of those ratty old bottlebrushes that were in fashion with councils a while ago, but there is one bottlebrush of a different and better species still going strong. The giant candles banksia in my back garden has over 20 flowers this year; up from last year’s three after the garden rescue. Near to that is a six metre banksia integrifolia that flowers about a month later. Don’t know if the NSW Christmas bush is going to make it. Grew less than a centimetre this year. Must be something holding it back.
I have a fair bit of leaf litter that’s chock-a-clock full of beetles, crawlies, and little skinks, and the lawn and the lawn and garden beds provide worms and lawn grubs. My other bird feeding native plants are blueberry ash, austromyrtus, lilli pilli, correas, ivory curl bush, some tall grasses, a few grevilleas, a couple of hakea bushes, a couple of ti-trees and a blue plum. In spring the fat dianella berries are a favourite with the rosellas. And of course the Angophora.
Hopefully the debdrobium beetles on the Sydney rock orchids are also a food source. They are pretty but strip new leaves bare if given half a chance.
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I will be building a herb garden, when the indoor renovations are over and I get started on the outside. Not quite ‘Capability Brown’ standard, but with a small meandering path of stepping stones. Yes a very small path, as it is really only a patch. Like the allotments in England, available for peppercorn rent , from the councils.
There is a productive Macadamia on the border of our property. I felt guilty taking a chain saw to it, but it hung over the driveway and scraped the cars. ..I only gave it a hair cut, BTW.
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Nice collection WM. Liked the Mavericks very much
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Additional Trivia:
The Eighty Eights She fell In Love With James Bond
Larry Van Kriedt of The Non Stop Dancers in his earlier band The Eighty eights, playing guitar this time.
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I have always thought that Raul Malo never reached his full potential. I have a DVD of the last concert that The Mavericks preformed, where they played some of their gold standards.
I love there Tjuana, or whatever influence; the Mexican brass ect. But I suppose it’s his voice and diction that l like, whether its rocky or a ballad. If you listen to a lot of his songs they have that plaintiff, jilted, lost in love theme.
My all time favourite is rather low-brow really, but I’ll admit it I just wanna dance the nifght away, with its jazzy brassy overtones, and feel good music. The actual words though are in his usual vein of semi-heartbreak : “tell her no”…and, “she can’t do a thing to me.”
Play it loud after a couple of jars and swing your Senorita, without listening to the subtext of his un-rapturous angst; again! Once more already.
Warning though don’t play it in your car, cos you’ll start wriggling.
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Excuse spelling teach.
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Yeah, he’s the business, and what a great band at their peak.
Here’s Sinners & Saints from last year’s album of the same name.
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Interesting, listening to that at 6:45 am. (the blog clock is still on NSW summertime though. Well it was last night.)
Great track with everything in it: the beginning starting off like Perfidia, by The Ventures, then that brassy sound; a bit of Andalusian voca,l and the whole thing building , bolero style. With his voice as an instrument controlling a large band. Masterful.
Again his message is sort of get over the heartbreak and move on.
If an autobiography, or bio comes out…I’ll grab it
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OK, OK, I’ve fixed the clock. Sheesh. It seems like only six months since the LAST time I had to stir myself to do something useful. I need a rest.
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Yes! You just take it easy, Voice.
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Waz, the Porkers ARE pretty good, aren’t they ! I did a bit of youtube research – one of the nice spin-offs from your excellent work here – and I note their former name was The Pork Hunts. Not surprised they were encouraged to change it, really. They’d be an excellent house band, though.
ANd off I went into SKA – and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones …. YAY !
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