My dad was born in August 1917 so he was right in the middle of this period. He played in a jazz/swing band that did gigs all over NYC and he was an amazing dancer. I never realized it until my cousin Andrea got married in 1969 I was 9 and at her wedding the orchestra played "Sing sing sing" and he and his brothers were on the dance floor with their wives and just took it over. My mom said that when she first met him in 1955 he had shelves full of trophies from dance contests that he had won. My mom said he entered those contests so he could win some money to eat with during the depression. When he was 70 he could still do all these dances and also he could do the Kazotsky (Prisiadki). Might have to Google that one, but it isn't an easy one to pull off.
Yes. I loved that generation. I remember even in the 80s when I first started to go to weddings. Most of them born in the 1920s and 1930s knew how to dance so well from the Big Band Era. I went to my nephews wedding recently they do not play the music anymore sadly. Greatest Generation are gone sadly now many of the silents the parent of Generation X are going fast teens of the 40s and 50s who knew how to dance like that.
Love your video & the music but I believe it is labeled wrong. This is not "Benny Goodman Orchestra - Sing, Sing, Sing" I think it's "Jumpin' at the Woodside" Sorry if I'm mistaken.🤔
I think some people didn’t actually see the movie Swing Kids or completely missed the point , these teenagers weren’t just having fun giggling and dancing they were rebelling against the harsh regime of the Nazis,most of the kids were arrested and forced into the German army. While yes the dancing is pretty cool , don’t forget the backdrop is in Nazi Germany and these kids weren’t just dancing they were literally breaking the law
The great Benny Goodman and Sing, sing, sing. I think maybe with Gene Krupa on the drums (depending on the year of the recording). Classic (and imagine how this "American cultural import' got under the Nazi's skin?!
Swing and Big Band music have always been my favorite type of music and I've been listening to it for over 3 score. I like music that makes me move. A couple of years ago I came across a movie out of Japan called Swing Girls and thought I'd give it a watch. Glad I did. Yes, they play Swing...
#SwingKids Things were normal until fascist takeover using Jews..It Seems Roles Are Reversed Now💔I'm too injured to Dance!..I was TERRORIZED at a Jewish✡️ Deli Starting Christmas Day 2008, Directly Persecuted by influentual Jews 2 this Day! Jews HAVE NOT Learned their Own History/Holocaust. I'm a ✝️Jewish Swing Kid Persecuted by Jews..Roles Reversed💔Watch this Film📽️1993, "Swing Kids" #FreeDominic 🇺🇸🗽
Those seemed like fun times, but at the same time it must've been scary having lived in an era where you had to fear danger, especially when Nazi Germany was going on, especially when Hitler was alive. Sad period that is still here with us.
Least we forget that the movie is set in Hamburg circa 1939-on, and two decades later the children of these swing kids (who survived the WWII) were dancing to the Beatles in similar music halls.
It was also a time of great moral courage. Yad Vashem has honored 27,921 people from 51 countries, recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, non-Jews who saved ‘undesirables’ because ‘it was the right thing to do,’ despite the danger/risk. @@joewhitehead3
Oh my god I love the energy of swing dancing so much! And the ending of the video where he and the girl so loghtheartedly danced together like flowing threw water just *chef's kiss*
