Swintime collection - half past jumptimeGenre: Jazz Music Video & ConcertsLabel: Liberation EntertainmentDescription: The pop and dance music of choice during the 1940s Swing music has managed to maintain its popularity ever since and in recent years has enjoyed a substantial international revival both in its original form and through modern day interpretations and recreations of the music on the wave of the ever-growing swing-dance craze. As long ago as 1941 America s Soundie film company began making promotional music featurettes for the newly-arrived video jukebox. Compiled from those Soundies and other promotional short films from the Forties along with the rival Snader Telescriptions from the early Fifties Half-Past Jump Time! is an exhilarating collection of jump and jive classics from those halcyon years. These timeless performances give us a vivid glimpse of that joyful elegant and innocent decade before rock n roll came along when Swing really was the thing... TRACKLISTING Vanita Smythe: Low Short & Squatty; Back Door Man; Skeets Tolbert & His Orchestra: Blitzkrieg Bombardier; Tis You Baby; Corn Pone; No No Baby; Meade Lux Lewis: Low Down Dog; Boogie Woogie; Cab Calloway & His Cabaliers: Calloway Boogie; The Lionel Hampton Orchestra: Ding Dong Baby; Mabel Lee with Deryck Sampson s Band: The Cat Can Dance; Baby Don t Go Away From Me; Half Past Jump Time; Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five: Fuzzy Wuzzy; Five Guys Named Moe; Old Man Mose; The Count Basie Sextet: Basie Boogie; Helen Humes with The Count Basie Sextet: I Cried For You; Red Allen & His Band: Count Me Out; Drink Hearty; House On 52nd Street; Maurice Rocco: Rocco Blues; Rhumboogie; Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: V.I.P. s Boogie; Pat Flowers: Scotch Boogie; Will Bradley & His Orchestra: Barnyard Bounce (Chicken Gumboog); June Richmond with Roy Milton s Band: 47th Street Jive; Ride On Ride On; Hey Lawdy Mama; Mabel Lee and Harris & Hunt: Rhythmania; Lynn Albritton: Backstage Blues; Dallas Bartley & His Band: Sandin Joe; Ya Fine And Healthy Thing; All Ruzzit Buzzit; Cryin And Singin The Blues; Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White: A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Girl); Dorothy Dandridge: Cow Cow Boogie; Cook & Brown: Chatter; Toot That Trumpet. EXTRA FEATURES: Follow That Music A short film from 1946 starring Gene Krupa and featuring him and his orchestra playing four numbers; Audio CD of Highlights.
