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Take a walk down memory lane with The Big Band Reader!Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, and Glenn Miller were musical masters of their eras, enchanting and romancing audiences with their timeless classics. Relive these wonderful songs and memories through The Big Band Reader: Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras and Other Popular Ensembles, a unique and exciting collection of over 140 songs from over 70 bands that are categorized by themes, preferred numbers, and top songs! Paying tribute to better known swing bands, sweet bands (ensembles favoring softer, more sentimental numbers), and some unheralded bands (good ensembles that did not receive much attention or did not have a well-known leader), this book offers music enthusiasts up to four biographical essays relating to specific groups and their popular hits, giving you historical and informative facts about the songs and the people who performed them. Nostalgic and entertaining, The Big Band Reader is a one-of-a-kind book that provides you with specific details and research about your most cherished songs and their composers, such as: The Artie Shaw Orchestra, well-known for their classic hit “Begin the Beguine,” by composer and lyricist Cole Porter The Benny Goodman Orchestra and their crowd favorite “And the Angels Sing,” written and composed by Johnny Mercer The Billy Eckstine Orchestra's well-loved songs, including “Prisoner of Love,” written by Leo Robin and “A Cottage for Sale,” written by Larry Conley and composed by Willard Robison “Day in Day Out,” with words and music by Johnny Mercer and Rube Bloom, which was a favorite of three big bands orchestras, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, and Bob Crosby Cab Calloway of the Cab Calloway Orchestra, along with Jack Palmer, and their hit “Jumpin’Jive” Thorough and fascinating, The Big Band Reader includes an appendix of the big bands arranged by themes to help you find a desired song or group. This remarkable reference will enable you to walk down memory lane and reminisce about the unforgettable songs of swing and its composers.

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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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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780789009142
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Haworth Press Inc
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 324
  • Sub Title: Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras and Other Popular Ensembles
  • ISBN-10: 0789009145
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jun 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 324
  • Returnable: N

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