The Big Band Reader: Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras and Other Popular Ensembles

ISBN-13: 9780789009159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 324 str.

William E. Studwell; Mark Baldin

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Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, and Glenn Miller were all musical masters of their eras. Relive their timeless songs and memories through The Big Band Reader, a collection of more than 140 songs from over 70 bands, including: Begin the Beguine, Blue Moon, Chattanooga Choo Choo, Little Brown Jug, Moonlight Serenade, Sweet Georgla Brown...and many more.

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Contents

• Preface
• The Better-Known Swing Bands
• Artie Shaw
• Begin the Beguine
• Frenesi
• Summit Ridge Drive
• Benny Goodman
• And the Angels Sing
• Let's Dance
• Moonglow
• Sing, Sing, Sing
• Billy Eckstine
• Prisoner of Love
• Without a Song
• Bob Crosby
• Day In--Day Out
• In a Little Gypsy Tea Room
• Bunny Berigan
• I Can't Get Started
• When Yuba Plays the Rumba on His Tuba
• Cab Calloway
• Jumpin' Jive
• Minnie the Moocher
• Charlie Barnet
• Cherokee
• Skyliner
• Charlie Spivak
• Linda
• My Devotion
• Chick Webb
• A-Tisket A-Tasket
• Stompin' at the Savoy
• Claude Thornhill
• Loch Lomond
• Snowfall
• Clyde McCoy
• Sugar Blues
• Count Basie
• Blue and Sentimental
• One O'Clock Jump
• Open the Door, Richard
• Sugar
• The Dorsey Brothers
• Chasing Shadows
• Lost in a Fog
• When I Take My Sugar to Tea
• Duke Ellington
• Don't Get Around Much Anymore
• It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
• Satin Doll
• Take the “A” Train
• Erskine Hawkins
• Tuxedo Junction
• Frankie Carle
• Oh What It Seemed to Be
• Rumors Are Flying
• Gene Krupa
• Boogie Blues
• Let Me Off Uptown
• Glen Gray
• Blue Moon
• Smoke Rings
• Glenn Miller
• Chattanooga Choo Choo
• In the Mood
• Little Brown Jug
• Moonlight Serenade
• Harry James
• Ciribiribin
• I've Heard That Song Before
• Sleepy Lagoon
• You Made Me Love You
• Henry Busse
• Hot Lips
• Jan Savitt
• Make Believe Island
• 720 in the Books
• Jimmie Lunceford
• The Organ Grinder's Swing
• Rhythm Is Our Business
• Jimmy Dorsey
• Besame Mucho
• Contrasts
• So Rare
• John Kirby
• Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy
• Undecided
• Larry Clinton
• Deep Purple
• My Reverie
• Les Brown
• Joltin' Joe DiMaggio
• Sentimental Journey
• Lionel Hampton
• After You've Gone
• Flying Home
• Ray Anthony
• At Last
• The Bunny Hop
• Russ Morgan
• Pocketful of Dreams
• You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
• Si Zentner
• Lazy River
• Stan Kenton
• Artistry in Rhythm
• City of Glass
• Tampico
• Ted Heath
• Listen to My Music
• That Lovely Weekend
• Ted Weems
• Heartaches
• Somebody Stole My Gal
• Teddy Wilson
• You Can't Stop Me from Dreaming
• Tommy Dorsey
• I'll Never Smile Again
• I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
• Marie
• Opus One
• Will Bradley
• Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar
• High on a Windy Hill
• Woody Herman
• Caledonia
• Early Autumn
• Woodchopper's Ball
• The Sweet Bands
• Ben Bernie
• Au Revoir, Pleasant Dreams
• Sweet Georgia Brown
• Dick Jurgens
• Careless
• Eddy Duchin
• I Won't Dance
• My Twilight Dream
• Freddy Martin
• I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts
• Tonight We Love
• Guy Lombardo
• Boo-Hoo
• Coquette
• Hal Kemp
• Got a Date with an Angel
• Horace Heidt
• Deep in the Heart of Texas
• I'll Love You in My Dreams
• Isham Jones
• I'll See You in My Dreams
• Wabash Blues
• Jan Garber
• A Melody from the Sky
• You're Breaking My Heart
• Kay Kyser
• Three Little Fishes
• Lawrence Welk
• Don't Sweetheart Me
• Leo Reisman
• The Continental
• Paradise
• Paul Whiteman
• Whispering
• Wonderful One
• Sammy Kaye
• Daddy
• Harbor Lights
• Shep Fields
• Did I Remember?
• Wayne King
• Beautiful Love
• The Waltz You Saved for Me
• Xavier Cugat
• Brazil
• The Breeze and I
• Some Unheralded Bands
• Bennie Moten
• Moten Swing
• Benny Carter
• Kansas City Suite
• When the Lights Are Low
• Billy Strayhorn
• Lush Life
• Don Redman
• Chant of the Weed
• Cherry
• Fletcher Henderson
• Christopher Columbus
• Henderson Stomp
• Gus A

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William E Studwell, Mark Baldwin