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  2. 45 of the Best First Dance Songs to Kick Off Your Reception - AOL

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    2. “RIVER” BY LEON BRIDGES. Best lyrics: “Oh, I wanna come near and give ya/Every part of me”. Just jump ahead to the 1:30 mark to get to the good stuff.

  3. Swing music - Wikipedia

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    Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s. It became nationally popular from the mid-1930s. Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement.

  4. Shim Sham - Wikipedia

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    The Shim Sham goes best with swing songs whose melody lines start on beat eight, as does the choreography. An obvious choice is The Shim Sham Song (Bill Elliot Swing Orchestra), which was written specifically for this dance and has musical effects (e.g., breaks) in all the right places.

  5. West Coast Swing - Wikipedia

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    West Coast Swing is a slotted dance, which means that the steps of the dance are confined to an imaginary "slot" on the dance floor. For West Coast Swing, the slot is a long, thin, rectangular area whose length depends on the tempo of the music – it can be eight or nine feet long for slower songs, but will be shorter for faster music.

  6. Swing (dance) - Wikipedia

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    Swing dance is a group of social dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s–1940s, with the origins of each dance predating the popular "swing era". Hundreds of styles of swing dancing were developed; those that have survived beyond that era include Charleston , Balboa , Lindy Hop , and Collegiate Shag .

  7. Collegiate shag - Wikipedia

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    The Collegiate Shag (or "Shag") is a partner dance done primarily to uptempo swing and pre-swing jazz music (185-250+ beats per minute).It belongs to the swing family of American vernacular dances that arose in the 1920s and 30s.

  8. Glenn Miller Orchestra - Wikipedia

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    Glenn Miller and His Orchestra was an American swing dance band that was formed by Glenn Miller in 1938. Arranged around a clarinet and tenor saxophone playing melody, and three other saxophones playing harmony, the band became the most popular and commercially successful dance orchestra of the swing era and one of the greatest singles charting acts of the 20th century.

  9. 90-year-old shows off incredible dance moves

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    She dances West Coast Swing, Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Tanga and Ballroom. Jean trained with legendary ballroom dancer Frank Veloz of 90-year-old shows off incredible dance moves