Flickinger stages nostalgic Big Band-era entertainment

Take a nostalgic trip back to the days of the Big Band sound and be sure bring your dancing shoes.

[alamo senior]

Fantastic!!! Hope this becomes commonplace. Back to the good music -- with words you can understand.

[Gone vinyl]

I bought a phonograph console. Now I can understand the words when I want in the family room. I even transcribed some up on this Bakelite tele-typewriter. Bee's Knees!

[dragon82a]

alamo senior wrote:

Fantastic!!! Hope this becomes commonplace. Back to the good music -- with words you can understand.

Is this like Glenn Miller? I like that sound.

[Gone vinyl]

"We'll be playing swing, Latin and jazz, with some new arrangements,"

Including arrangements of Bacharach, Lennon-McCartney tunes.

Hope "Norwegian Wood" is an instrumental. "She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh. I told her I didn't and crawled up to sleep in the bath. So I lit a fire isn't it good? Norwegian Wood." What's that all about?

I enjoy Big Band era music too. I support people supporting live music and having a good time. I just think ( way too much) that one or two good popular songs with words you can understand have been written since 1955. As do the musicians performing at the Flick judging by the program

[Wildbill_4242]

Testing....

[alamo senior]

dragon82a wrote:

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Is this like Glenn Miller? I like that sound.

Glenn Miller, Harry James, Benny Goodman, and the list goes long. Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, and many others sang songs with words you could follow and understand. Then rap came along and everything changed to crap.

[Dragon82a]

alamo senior wrote:

<quoted text>Glenn Miller, Harry James, Benny Goodman, and the list goes long. Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, and many others sang songs with words you could follow and understand. Then rap came along and everything changed to crap.

I hate rap. I like the Big Band sound. Oh here you might like this. has an "Epic" sort of sound, not Its a fun music video to watch too. Not a big band sound but very nice music(watch the Kid's expressions they are priceless):

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Then this is a Piano Cello version of Coldplays "Viva La Vida"

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

And this is the Original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

All almost classical in a weird sort of way.

Finally i found the Nirobi Trio from Ernie Kovacs show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Hope you Enjoy :)

[Gone vinyl]

alamo senior wrote:

<quoted text>Glenn Miller, Harry James, Benny Goodman, and the list goes long. Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, and many others sang songs with words you could follow and understand. Then rap came along and everything changed to crap.

"Then Rap came along?" There must be at least 30 year gap there. Most kids wern't digging Ira Gerswin's turns of poesy during the Summer of Love.

I don't care for Gangsta Rap as a sub-genre to be specific, but it is primarily because I CAN understand the lyrics when those that brandish it in their cars are so eager to share. In that I guess that I am senior too.

[Joe]

alamo senior wrote:

<quoted text>Glenn Miller, Harry James, Benny Goodman, and the list goes long. Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, and many others sang songs with words you could follow and understand. Then rap came along and everything changed to crap.

care ful what u post they'll call u a racist.

[Dragon82a]

Here is a band that recreates the Roaring 20's sound. The band is "Squirrel Nut Zappers" very cool sound :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

[alamo senior]

Joe wrote:

<quoted text> care ful what u post they'll call u a racist.

No, not racist, just don't like the noise they create. I'll stick to my 4,000 LPs' and an overworked turntable.

[Dragon82a]

alamo senior wrote:

<quoted text>No, not racist, just don't like the noise they create. I'll stick to my 4,000 LPs' and an overworked turntable.

Now thats cool, a real turntable!

[Gone vinyl]

alamo senior wrote:

<quoted text>No, not racist, just don't like the noise they create. I'll stick to my 4,000 LPs' and an overworked turntable.

Duke Ellington.

[alamo senior]

Gone vinyl wrote:

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Duke Ellington.

"Take The A Train" is hard to beat ----