Charleston anyone?

[thetrooper]

Are you familiar with this music 'genre'? If so, what would you recommend?

 

[Che Guava]

I always thought that the Charleston was a dance that went along with jazz from the 20's.

1922: a year you might have seen Al Capone, dancing the charleston on top of a flagpole....!

 

[thetrooper]

Well Che, dance = music. What I'm looking for is something tangible, i.e. artist names etc.

 

[warpus]

How about 'The Charleston' by James P. Johnson?

 

[thetrooper]

James P. Johnson - noted.

 

[Che Guava]

Well Che, dance = music. What I'm looking for is something tangible, i.e. artist names etc.

Yes, dance does need music, but I don't think there's a music style called 'ballet' for eg....

Look up Dixieland jazz and swing jazz, I think that's good charleston'ing music...

 

[Rambuchan]

Wasn't the Harlem Globetrotters' theme music a classic piece of Charleston too?

 

[Che Guava]

Wasn't the Harlem Globetrotters' theme music a classic piece of Charleston too?

Sweet Georiga Brown, IIRC, and I think that's considered swing....

 

[thetrooper]

Never mind, bring on the swing too...

 

[machia]

-Jack Hylton
-Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians
"Bojangles" Robinson, more in the tap-dancing side, but still very good music.

 

[Rambuchan]

Sweet Georiga Brown, IIRC, and I think that's considered swing....

Oh yeah!? Not my understanding of slide, but I'll let it swing.

Wait a minute, switch that.

 

[friskymike]

Great house remix of the Charleston sound...

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[Che Guava]

Oh yeah!? Not my understanding of slide, but I'll let it swing.

Wait a minute, switch that.

The original was. The whistling knuckle-cracking one the the H-GT's use is probably considered something else. It's been too long since I took a jazz course to remember...!

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Damn you all, now the Harlem Globetrotters music is going to be trapped in my head for the next few days. It'll be the last thing I hear before falling asleep, and the first thing I hear when I wake up

 

[Che Guava]

Sing 'happy birthday' or 'twinkle twinkle' 5 times in successsion and you'll forget it no problem....

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Its no use

 

[Bartleby]

Smoke on the Water is reputed to displace all songs. It seems to work for me, anyway.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

I think I'll have to drink it away

 

[thetrooper]

I think I'll have to drink it away

Do so to the tunes of 'I'd rather Charleston', various artists.

Case closed.