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Johnny Meijer (born 'Jan Cornelis Meijer' 1 October 1912 in Amsterdam; died 8 January 1992 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch accordionist who played classical, folk, and swing. For a time he was known as a jazz accordionist and his 75th birthday was celebrated at the North Sea Jazz Festival. He was also the subject of a film. [1]
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Based on the ASCAP database, "I'm Headin' for California" was written by Glenn Miller with Arthur Malvin, a member of the Crew Chiefs, copyrighted on September 21, 1944, and published by the Chappell Co., Inc. [44] [47] The song was released as a 78 single, RCA Victor 20–1834, b/w "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" by the Glenn Miller Orchestra led ...
Good songs get beaten to death, and bad songs are impossible to pull the plug on. Anyway, wedding season is kicking into gear, and weddings could use a shakeup from hell.
Undeniably Ding became a popular household name in the world of Dancing and has since been the creator of numerous dances including Swing Song, Badman Fawad, Part Di Crowd, Chakka Chakka, Flowers a Bloom, Monument, Oh My Swing, ‘Paranoid, and Dip again. Ding also became a main staple in the lyrics of dancing songs over the years.
The swing era lasted until the mid-1940s, and produced popular tunes such as Duke Ellington's "Cotton Tail" (1940) and Billy Strayhorn's "Take the 'A' Train" (1941). When the big bands struggled to keep going during World War II , a shift was happening in jazz in favor of smaller groups.
"Jump, Jive an' Wail" is a 1956 jazz swing song by Louis Prima. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It first appeared on his album The Wildest! and became one of his signature songs . [ 3 ]
East Coast Swing being danced in Montreal in 2022. East Coast Swing (ECS) is a form of social partner dance. It belongs to the group of swing dances. It is danced under fast swing music, including: big band, rock and roll, rockabilly, and boogie-woogie. Yerrington and Outland equated East Coast Swing to the New Yorker in 1961.