Swingin' the Classics 16
September 19, 2023 #2143
"Everybody's making money but Tchaikovsky," so claims a song from the Big Band Era. It was a recognition of the trend in the 1940s for bands and vocalists to adapt and update classical melodies.
Playlist
- Light Cavalry
- Claude Gordon
- Humoresque
- Lawrence Welk
- Dance of the hours
- Larry Clinton
- In the hall of the mountain king
- Jan Savitt
- Strange music
- Bing Crosby
- The lamp is low
- Glenn Miller
- I look at heaven
- Shore/Martin
- On the isle of May
- Eddie Duchin
- Dodgers’ fan dance
- Harry James
- Song of India
- Frankie Laine
- William Tell overture
- Spike Jones
- Full moon and empty arms
- Billy Vaughn
- Toselli’s serenade
- Joe Venuti
- If you are but a dream
- Jimmy Dorsey
- Brahms’ lullaby
- Dean Martin