Hooked On Swing Dancing 

I know, right? It's embarrassing.

Lol

You re sooooooo right, fella.

she cool

Claris. 'still can't get my head around ''gramp's ever haveing sex,.'''

Lotta luvv ;)) we know a good dancing song when we hear one

@@ellax7434 yep ! cheers...

Thanks, only 16; been listening to a lot of glenn miller lately.

@@904_Florida Congratulations Seven...

been listening to these for awhile now and they are great

Classy ages classy people

My granny and grandad from dublin used to dance to the andrew sisters

That must've been freaking cool.

OH MY GOD MY PARENTS & GRAND PARENTS DANCED LIKE THAT TOO DURING NEW YEARS AT OUR HOUSE PARTYS WHEN I WAS 5 YEARS OLD!! MY DAD USED TO GRAB ME TWIST ME AND FLIP ME OVER IT WAS SO MUCH FUN GREAT FUN MEMORIES!! ONE TIME MY DAD & MOM TRAINED ME AND MY BROTHER TO DANCE EXACTLY LIKE THAT AND TO DRESS LIKE THAT FOR DANCE CONTEST TO WIN A 50 POUND HUGE TURKEY WITH BOXBOF MASHED POTATOES TURKEY DRESSING CORN BISCUITS & CHAMPAGNE!! WE WERE THE LAST TO DANCE THE DANCE CONTEST WHEN WE DANCED WE WON HANDS DOWN!’ MY PARENTS & GRAND PARENTS AND GREAT GRAND PARENTS WERE SO PROUD OF US ME AND MY BROTHER WE WERE IN SEVENTH 7TH GRADE WE WOULD NEVER FORGET IT!!! OT WAS FUN SCARY AT SAME TIME THE SCHOLL TOOK SO MANY PHOTOS!!

Bullshit

absolutely !!!!!!!!! HOLY Cowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Haha for real

Great comment. 🙈😅

And that you're in condition!

John Edwards not to mention needing to have COMPLETE trust in your partner.

+Amy Ayers Hi there, you may be the best person to answer this. Back in the 1950's did people learn to dance swing or did they just pick it up? For example, like how a non native of Brazil would have to learn samba because it isn't common to their country... Thank You.

+SweetTea742 hmm..still no answer. Id like to know too :)

Gema Jimenez I'm still waiting too lol :-)

SweetTea742 haha hopefully she'll reply

would you dance with me darling?

God bless you. I knew this music because of my parents (WWII greatest gemeration ever lived) and both served in the U.S. Navy. Grew up with Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, Cab Calloway, Andrew Sisters...they all were great artists. I was a product of the 70s Disco generation, so I could relate to this great music. Not comparing Disco to Big Bands, but all the same, you just could not sit still....you had to get up and dance! Great, great, music and timeless!

Ya gotta love this!!!! 💘

What a tart

Donald Remnant you are as young as u feel x

@@bonitaknierim8677 lad did you see marlon brando It would be awkward to meet him😶😶

That music is super gold, my dear

Times have always carried their share of hardships, regardless of the era. Like everything else, there are pros and cons. Romanticizing a particular period as perfect is a mere product of nostalgia. In truth, the present holds some advantages: there are fewer wars compared to the past, and we have made progress in addressing issues such as xenophobia, sexism, and other social problems. It is important to acknowledge the flaws of the past while appreciating the advancements we have achieved in the present.

@@AraneaTempestatibus The era wasn't perfect but less complicated and problematic in my opinion which I am entitled to as well as you are.

Absolutely

I know my history. World history and American history. This time was the peak of western civilization. Today you can see the population shopping in their pajamas, face tattoos etc..there is no comparison between the children of the European immigrants and this anything goes freak show of today. Anybody that says otherwise is delusional. You are absolutely right!

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I love jazz so much, and I am 17! You just have to dance!

David Mehnert iiiii

Jackie...it's SWING!!!! A form of Jazz. Swing is major chord harmony arrangements (other songs "arranged" into a different time, different instruments given primacy - Glen Miller gave the primary themes to woodwinds, not brass). Some original compositions and yeah, lifted sections of true classical (the masters) music changed. For fun - Benny Goodman's 1936 rendition of a Louie Prima composition, SWING, SWING, SWING. FABULOUS!!! Keep on truckin' Miss. I'm 75 now and have loved Swing since I was a child. Also - note - true Dixieland (another form of Jazz) go to Tuba Skinny here on RU-vid. Fabulous!

+Salvatore Pedi Some people my age seem to think everyone from the past looked like Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra, and danced like them too.

Me too 👍🏼

For sure friend !!!

My friend keeps telling me that I dance in regular parties like I escaped from interwar period🙈

I do, live to a rock and roll band Friday, and the Dance School Summer Ball Saturday, today, 23 july 23. Nice, ...at 72.

Some people, like BIDEL KASTRO, said it was rubbish.

I wish I still could .-------

MY SON OMAHA BEACH WAS A MASACURE LOTS BLOOD AND GUTSBLESS PAPA

HEY HE WENT FOR YOU YOURS YOUR GRAND CHILDREN WONT BE DRAFTED

Am In x military my respect to your dad and to your family i thank your dad for serving.

Lots of love sweetheart 💗💗💗💗💗

Hello Maria, How are you doing?

I like swing,jives, old. Music like dis, it makes ur heart young again

Cool

Thanks.

This is what I was looking for. Good job 👌

sing sing sing is sooooooo good

Beautiful play list. each one is special in its own particular way.

Swing is still very popular. I just wish I could dance it. Love swing music. It's happy stuff and will never diminish in popularity.

It would be fkcn awesom! I've never thought of it this way. Hopefully I can live through the 50s and rock with Chuck Berry!

If that happens... I could finally get a jazz band together and find gigs easily!!!

we are bringing back the depression instead

why do you say in 4 years?

Whoever they are, we dont want them here anyways - i wish it was still popular to dance like this so i could learn itttt

@@ellax7434 you can learn it its just nowadays hard because people forget how to do it

Their missing out on a lot, and have a weird eye/ ear for goodness!

put it down to poor taste

I've seen home movies of my Mom & my aunt jiving like we see here in the film clip. Mom knew how to dance.

That's shameful

Hey, teachers. Leave them kids alone.

I dance like this every weekend. Not all kids have bad taste

swing dancing came from the 20s and 30s born in harlem

I play this music while shooting people in roblox big paintball

It really was! I would spin my wife on the dance floor at her high school sock hops, slide her between my legs, forewards and back, lift her to my left side and then swing her around to my right side, and spin her again, back in the late 60's, and we did a lot of the moves seen here, because that is where the Bebop came from, Jive dancing, Lindy hop and the Jitterbug were all forerunners of the Bebop, which by the way is a lot more fun than the twist, locomotion, or any of the other silly dances they started to invent in the 60's. Most of the other students would clear a space on the dance floor and just watch us go at it. My wife was and is a gorgeous Strawberry Red Haired woman, quite tall at 5' 9", and only weighed 130 lbs, has more curves than a Nevada mountain rd. When I spun her, that circle skirt that she wore, and still does today, would rise up and show off the cutest butt, and the best darn legs in the state of Nevada!! I was, and still am 215 lbs 6' 3" tall, quite strong, and could get away with doing all the moves. We still Bebop and Jive, at our local swing dance club meets, and the other dancers still give us some space and watch us go at it. This style of dancing will keep you fit, strong, and happy!! Only difference now is that I don't throw her around like I used to, as I am a bit older than back then!

Better than that twerking nonsense today.

@@treseancann1261 You can appreciate one style without bashing another there is no need to call twerking nonsense when there is nothing wrong with it it’s a valid dance too

@@di7209 unfortunately it is nonsense. A woman extending to vulgarity to get attention isn’t a classy respectable woman that should be raising your children unless you want a bad influence and your children twerking too which I doubt. Even these street guys don’t want women like that that’s why most of them who are like that are considered smash and passes. There’s a reason guys get hyped when they go out with a classy woman who’s decent and has got her life straight and isn’t fazed by a attention seeking women who wants the wrong attention from men I’ve seen how guys react it’s completely different and if we start raising a society/children to more respectful things they will be more inclined to be respectful too saying twerking is alright is complacency and raises a complacent society.

born in 44

best music time in my opinion.

+B3rettaZ26 From 97' here and OMG I LOVE IT SOO MUCH!

where are you!!! lets dance babe!!!

+B3rettaZ26 I'm from Mexico ;'3

Wars, Eric Burden & War is okay!🙂

The good old days weren't always good, and today's not as bad as it seems. Those times were filled with racism, lots of petty crime, diseases that they had no treatments for, early deaths from cancer, strokes and heart attacks, poor elderly, and even more cross cultural hate than today, if you can even imagine that. Pretty much no one ever dated or married outside their own religion, culture or race. Life as a woman? Get married and raise kids, that was it. Life as a minority in America? Menial jobs. There were no equal opportunity laws. Poor or working class? No college for you! Not fun. A weekend of nights dancing couldn't make up for all that was missing.

Germany is calm nowadays, I'm just not sure about the 2020's.

@@nimpbl3494 They never went away! Just went underground or underreported.

Pretty sure the wars are what made them party this hard. When the world seems to be going to hell you might not have a tomorrow to spend worrying about what you did today so live like you might not get another chance.

I feel the same way...I'll be 79 this coming Friday & still have the wonderful memories of those years....but I can still manage to dance around my kitchen ....tee hee...

you rock n roll angel :)

im 33 n this gets me 2 my bones you know its just timeless :)

as are we :)

I wish it would come back omg can’t get enough of swing! The young don’t know what they missed! I missed the forties with all the big swing bands! I am up there but I want to dance every day!

That's adorable!

Kirsten I. Russell

Concour mister.

You should not look at the YT comments section, because some of the dumbest shit imaginable gets posted there!!

@@prebooomer i agree, but I feel like it's just the intuition of young people. If young people back then were exposed to social media, I suspect they may have said similar nasty things about people from the past! It's just the culture, and like we have broken racial barriers, we too can make efforts toward breaking some aspect of our historical ignorance! (coming from a fellow youth)

Noah Calderon I don't believe nazis were too fond of it

swing is fun, not as hard to dance as some other styles and overall swing is one of the best styles that Americans have come up with :-)

swing is everywhere yo just need to know where to fund it..

Absolutely!

Don McCall

Lots of class. These folks seemed happy. It was a great era!

😯woah

That's AMAZING!

@@elizabethcherry3933 ik I didn't know she looked like that untill my mom showed me a picture of her when she was in her 20's

Just out of curiosity - if you don't mind - could you say which part is she in? You're so lucky to be able to see her in a video :)

Is she the smexi one jiving like a boss?!

Me 2 i love big band sound

I would go back if I wasn’t black

Me 2!!

@@peskypigeonx yep

Couldn't agree more.

Say what???

​@@boblebovidge7049Translation: "It was great music and dance from my youth - brings tears to my eyes"

Yups, less happy mare manlier. Just think the damage gay marriage will cause... eesh! Be careful what you wish for people!!!

Good question !!!!!

I think he means elites, but not all Jews are elites. Not all Jews are bad, just some. That goes for any race of people.

I know. I call it romanticism with the gutter.

Michael Hurn what damage

Better than that twerking nonsense today.

marry me haha

absolutely, this video had me flabbergasted !

I'm 17 too and I think I'm going to do swing dance lessons. You can still enjoy it even if it's not in fashion:)

annie vg2077 - In larger cities, there ARE still Arthur Murray studios that teach swing. As a side benefit, you will meet young men who love to dance. Good luck to you.

Why don't you contact Rusty Frank, Jean's close friend, for really cool lessons in swing and ALSO to be connected to the whole, rather large swing subculture for kids your age?

annie vg2077 Same!! And being an Actress it's great having to dance like this and also act 👍👏😁

Me to !!!

There are still some good Big Bands out there. You just need to find them. One "modern" example of big band music is in the 1980 musical XANADU. Gene Kelly and Olivia Newton John. A true pair of powerhouse musicians.

Vous avez raison!

Oh wow, that was brilliant.

The music in this clip was NOT the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Glen did record many of the tunes we heard here, but again, this was not his band on the clip

Get it together let's dance!!!!!!!!!

Yes

Absolutely 💯

Dėkui draugas.Francois Kneider

ale babeczki tańczyły , a chłopaki ho , ho sprawni jak Mistrzowie z imprezy 5 kółek

it's swing or charleston , no ?

Merci à vous Dorothy .

Glad you like this music. I'm afraid your generation got short changed.

Somebody is here You certainly have taste..

Yessssss😅

I don't blame you Zac, for every pop song that's half-way decent the next five are garbage but it can be worse with rap. I'm black but I despise that thuggish nonsense!

@@catholiccrusader5328 I loathe rap. Sadly every gym class I go to it is every song that plays extremely loud. Sadly whenever I try to choose a song they switch it back half way through.

To Zac,Fred & Nate:I'm 62 & black & I agree with all three of you.Give me this the old soul,rock & roll classics,jazz this & the Great American Song Book artists like Nat,Frank,Tony & Ella & classic country & I'm happy!

@@lamontburton1233 same here friend.

Me too

I hear you. I can't stand that twerking crap today.

Ja też.

Francois Kneider this is lindy hop style swing

Yeah it was, if you were middle class or higher, and white, everybody else thought it pretty much sucked shit, especially if you were Black, Hispanic, Gay, or any other minority, or white trailer trash!

Hello Carol, How are you doing?