Wow, the massive applause at the beginning made me think this was going to be an amazing performance; but man that was pretty lame. Whose idea was it to play this without swing?
Louis Prima wrote this song in 1935, but it took Benny Goodman and a band with far more discipline to play this song right. Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa on the drums who each gave it the enormous energy with which we remember the song today.
You could this say this song and its arrangement truly evolved.
As bad as this arrangement unforunately sounds, you have to give credit to Prima for writing it, otherwise Goodman (the masterful composer) and company would not have been able to play it. ☺
Alright, considering this is meant to be a mostly -brass- piece, they weren't that bad. They're section of woodwinds seems pretty large compared to the brass.
Is it just me...or did they TOTALY FUCKIN BOMB THIS!!!! THAT SUCKED!!!! Let me spell that... S-U-C-K-ED!!! Oh thats right... You can't understand because THE CROWD IS CLAPPING NONSTOP!!!!!
People lucky enough to grow up in places where music is an active part of a well-funded school—can the rest of us with no jazz bands, no marching bands, no pep bands, and in fact barely a concert band of twenty or so people, for half of whom this would be too hard to play get some respite from the "my middle school could play this without practicing" comments?
My high school concert band just got the music for this a few days ago and sound better than that. That was the worst drum I've ever heard on this song and apparantly "balance" means nothing to this band.
is...... is that a classical music band setup? what the heck?!?!?!?!?! I ALMOST dont like this song anymore, ALMOST. But gene krupa makes me feel better again
you should be ashamed .... this song should not be played in a orchestra it sounds horrible.... where is the swing ???? its stylisticly incorecct and does NOT may i say again NOT belong in an orchestra out of scale 1 to 10 i give it -10 ... just horrible and wth was with the drum it sounds scary !!!!!!
awful just awful get a real 1st alto and clarinet player knock out the flutes and every other orchestral instrument with the exception of the trombones and trumpets and then spend 30 or so years reteaching them jazz then maybe
well, I must say, that the band IS bad, coz nobody noticed that they had to play swing... some kind of ridicoulus - would have loved to see the solist-parts =D
wow, i've always wondered what it would sound like when strictly classical musicians try to play jazz. this is train wreck, they really can't feel swing at all.
it was probably written for jazz musicians. You have to instruct classical musicians on how you swing in the music otherwise nothing good will ever come.
OMG this sounds like a school band - bloody abysmal timing by everybody, no bloody dynamics, no obvious love or feel for the music - in other words - "IT DONT MEAN A THING IF IT AINT GOT THAT SWING "
it isnt bad but that sound as march, not swing..
MsStiff86 2 weeks ago
1:52 song starts here
SkimShades117 2 months ago 5
Wow, the massive applause at the beginning made me think this was going to be an amazing performance; but man that was pretty lame. Whose idea was it to play this without swing?
fswmacguy 3 months ago
too much clapping, and they suck Also that is not how it goes!! kinda
mpitts6567 3 months ago
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mpitts6567 3 months ago
so long so many people claping =.= if u agree like it if u dont dislike
killerbladeunknown 4 months ago 3
tired of listening clapping..
primbonajah 5 months ago
Horrible rendition. They allow this on YT?
JBC814 5 months ago
About maybe 40 people to create a shite sound incomparable to Louis Prima Sam Butera and about 3 other guys, its like why turn up ?
appybei 6 months ago
this video is shit
thebestmorten1 6 months ago
Is it just me or do they suck. That with the clapping UGH.
meow062897 6 months ago
hey, thx for saying when they stop clapping.
Rhesputan 6 months ago
1:54 Make your lifes a lot easier on you
longview3000 7 months ago 5
ja the clap is important, of course...but too much)))
dadadada928 7 months ago
This is Very Bad!!!!
tedheath58 7 months ago
Louis Prima wrote this song in 1935, but it took Benny Goodman and a band with far more discipline to play this song right. Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa on the drums who each gave it the enormous energy with which we remember the song today.
You could this say this song and its arrangement truly evolved.
As bad as this arrangement unforunately sounds, you have to give credit to Prima for writing it, otherwise Goodman (the masterful composer) and company would not have been able to play it. ☺
wch1tv 7 months ago
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wch1tv 7 months ago
huh, swing played without swing. It sounds like the luny tunes theme music for t rexs. and at 3:06 it sounds like some weird orchestral aria.
ThePianoMan173 7 months ago
They turned this classic song into a JAWS intro song !!!!!
siggy164 8 months ago
Alright, considering this is meant to be a mostly -brass- piece, they weren't that bad. They're section of woodwinds seems pretty large compared to the brass.
oNoviceArtisto 8 months ago
DAYUM practice some more.. and get rid of that applause.. don't see why the fuck they're clapping anyway
KrankieV2 8 months ago
This isn't swingin'... They've got no feel for the original at all >_<.
primat91 8 months ago
Wow, this gave me respect for the original. and the intro clapping was longer than the performance -_-
TEQparkour 8 months ago
I've seen dead animals with more pep than that...
Hoogabogalugi1 8 months ago
Is it just me...or did they TOTALY FUCKIN BOMB THIS!!!! THAT SUCKED!!!! Let me spell that... S-U-C-K-ED!!! Oh thats right... You can't understand because THE CROWD IS CLAPPING NONSTOP!!!!!
Hoogabogalugi1 8 months ago
NO NO NO ! This band just cannot play this kind of music. It's a disaster.
iwasagasman 8 months ago 2
A minute of fucking clapping? Fuck formality.
gamermcgee 9 months ago
WTF??? They killed the groove!
alienorbiter 9 months ago
will they stop claping one day???
Metalflamme 9 months ago
Its not awful, not their fault. Just not as good as a jazz band.
freddytherubberducky 9 months ago
Oh dear. :(
stiggpots 9 months ago
edit out the first 100 seconds
vominator 10 months ago 5
Pffffahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.... you shittin me??? LMFAO!
rickydick4805379 10 months ago 2
did u find the camera from a trash can?
SalihKiraci 10 months ago 5
maybe you should look at the score and study it slower for two years, then re-show it
marionicolas93 10 months ago
maybe you should look at the score
marionicolas93 10 months ago
woowww the drums sound so bad
alielnazly 11 months ago
awful
Alex123McCarthy 11 months ago
OMG THE CLAPPING TOOK A LONG TIME
moltaluigi 11 months ago 11
fail
TheUnethical1 11 months ago
People lucky enough to grow up in places where music is an active part of a well-funded school—can the rest of us with no jazz bands, no marching bands, no pep bands, and in fact barely a concert band of twenty or so people, for half of whom this would be too hard to play get some respite from the "my middle school could play this without practicing" comments?
Vercingentorix11 11 months ago
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Vercingentorix11 11 months ago
they should all get a smack at the face, for playing and ruiening this. If you can't play it, don't do it..
Pyrowman 11 months ago
basura
grenztruppen3 11 months ago
hear music 5 seconds later: BANG!
DeadmedicProductions 11 months ago
no.
ismfoflove182 11 months ago
ha ha ha fucking offbeat.. this is killing the music st8 up !
mcmbmathias 11 months ago
The proper title should be "clap clap clap clap ....."
HSeuffert 11 months ago 4
What kind of monstrosity are those instruments spawning...
TPhaoimnaes 1 year ago
@TPhaoimnaes LOL!
Solarwinds122 11 months ago
:(
blinkme478 1 year ago
HOW LONG MUST AN AUDIENCE APPLAUD?!
curtithird 1 year ago 7
could you maybe cut out the 3 hours of clapping?
T16Akatsuki 1 year ago 60
@T16Akatsuki LOL
Akendress25 5 months ago
they start playing at 1:40
Prezants 1 year ago 4
I love these song, but...Sorry
MrRelax49 1 year ago
Totally missed the point of the song. It's supposed to be a lively swing song that you can dance to!
vbk13 1 year ago
CRAP!!!!!!!!! :S
segalvanargote 1 year ago
no frills version
snipedtheassassin 1 year ago
Wow did that clap last a LONG time
OogleManiac 1 year ago 2
wow.. this don't mean a thing.. because it ain't got that SWING!!
Finkldorkin 1 year ago 4
worst version of sing sing sing ever recorded, played, or listened to.... that is quite a list of all time terribles
cal92147 1 year ago 3
I'm sry but this band makes that song sound like crap
edibleize 1 year ago 2
do they ever stop FREAKIN CLAPPING!
dancagirl1998 1 year ago
why would you record 1:40 min of clapping
gogos1234567890 1 year ago
it's not as bad as everyone claims, but could've atleast cut out the first 2mins where bloody nothing happens
nahasapemapetila 1 year ago
My high school band plays this song better than this band and we NEVER rehearse the song.
TheGeekhunter84 1 year ago
1- Get a better camera
2- Get a better band
3- ???
4- Profit.
mangoismycat 1 year ago
This is awful!!! What are they applauding for? Is the audience on drugs?
ronetteloverz 1 year ago
Our 7th & 8th Grade Middle school Band is better..... lmfao
15Sebastiannn 1 year ago
Sorry, but...I prefer the big band version. This is absolute shit
tjones3293 1 year ago
to put it lightly, this sounds like SHIT
Markc264 1 year ago
wow this is freaken terrible
jdave17 1 year ago
that drum part sounds like something from an aborigine dance music..
302ManBass 1 year ago
wow. that drum part was painful
ttennyson115 1 year ago
OMG WTF at the drums.
deadlymassacre1 1 year ago
@deadlymassacre1 ROFLMAO!
Solarwinds122 1 year ago
My high school concert band just got the music for this a few days ago and sound better than that. That was the worst drum I've ever heard on this song and apparantly "balance" means nothing to this band.
battlemew 1 year ago
Came back here for some reason......... oh yeah. Listen to this then listen to the Benny Goodman version......Oh dear, the difference is crushing.
jackthehatuk 1 year ago
dude... edit your vid, the music, or 7th grader playing doesn't start till 1 minute 47 seconds....
ToothCentral 1 year ago
is...... is that a classical music band setup? what the heck?!?!?!?!?! I ALMOST dont like this song anymore, ALMOST. But gene krupa makes me feel better again
DrFill42 1 year ago
So... ever heard of jazz? Or swing? Sure doesn't sound like it.
JewClawClan 1 year ago 2
If you shut your eyes and listen to that you could justifiably be mistaken for thinking it was some junior school band on their first meeting.
jackthehatuk 1 year ago
@jackthehatuk hehe..yeah you got THAT right! and....sounds as if it was out of a disney movie...somehow..
caveabilly 1 year ago
to slow...
username13849 1 year ago
That was actually the Portsmouth Sinfonia, right?
boulderdsvo 1 year ago
Pure shit...
oldwoodlane 1 year ago 3
4:47 click this so you can skip all the annoying applause and the shitty music
Polaris9211 1 year ago 6
HORRIBLE!!!
OBELIXxoxoxo 1 year ago
No té força... es nota quan un músic clàssic vol sortir del seu terreny (i viceversa també, està clar)...
borisnot 1 year ago
you suck.
Shadowdrift10 1 year ago
you should be ashamed .... this song should not be played in a orchestra it sounds horrible.... where is the swing ???? its stylisticly incorecct and does NOT may i say again NOT belong in an orchestra out of scale 1 to 10 i give it -10 ... just horrible and wth was with the drum it sounds scary !!!!!!
donavenw 1 year ago
LEARN SWING
SargentJazz 1 year ago
quien compuso esto, Louis Prima o benny Goodman?
carrascalconlurdes 1 year ago
@carrascalconlurdes Benny Goodman, pero estos muertos jodieron la cancion. busca la original Sing Sing Sing with a Swing.
chachonene 1 year ago
awful just awful get a real 1st alto and clarinet player knock out the flutes and every other orchestral instrument with the exception of the trombones and trumpets and then spend 30 or so years reteaching them jazz then maybe
NicChambers93 1 year ago 2
@NicChambers93 ouch... but it is true
CaliDzrtrat 1 year ago
oh, wow
bubblez0402 1 year ago
wow 1:20 miunets of claping,...... how annoyong
jobrosfan0 1 year ago 24
why the hell is the first minute nothing but applause?
wiicomentator 1 year ago 6
OMG, poor Louis's rolling over in his grave! This is the antithisis of everything Louis stood for.
suehypno 2 years ago 3
well, I must say, that the band IS bad, coz nobody noticed that they had to play swing... some kind of ridicoulus - would have loved to see the solist-parts =D
yonastee 2 years ago
the arangement and tempo are terrible
brabon1 2 years ago 4
me lads....you cant have such a great song put into some stuffy band concert. band isnt bad though...just the selection of the song
elementbam86 2 years ago
juanpardo, you could have cut the clapping.
Whyolin 2 years ago 5
wow, i've always wondered what it would sound like when strictly classical musicians try to play jazz. this is train wreck, they really can't feel swing at all.
dodecopus 2 years ago 4
it was probably written for jazz musicians. You have to instruct classical musicians on how you swing in the music otherwise nothing good will ever come.
GassyMaskz 2 years ago
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dodecopus 2 years ago
this is a nazi version, I'm sure. It don't mean a thing. Tell your boys to take a little shnaps, or do some yoga first, to relax...
emc2mmd2 2 years ago
Stick to classical, lads
iburnedthedinner 2 years ago
I hate this.... so much. (N)
DarthChess 2 years ago
the thing that pisses me off is that it takes 2 minutes before they fucking play.
PianoManTyler 2 years ago 5
hahahaah for some reason this made me LOL
chubas41 2 years ago
what the hell?
onclocker1 2 years ago
wow...this is bad...the drum rhythm isn't right and its not swing...at all
nasaman400 2 years ago
Oh! Dearie me! Was it something they ate?
mabhekaphansi 2 years ago
OMG this sounds like a school band - bloody abysmal timing by everybody, no bloody dynamics, no obvious love or feel for the music - in other words - "IT DONT MEAN A THING IF IT AINT GOT THAT SWING "
paulipips999 2 years ago 4
Good grief, clip off the first 1:45 of this!
NoirFan01 2 years ago 3
the drum was some some kind crap
itsthebigJCG 2 years ago 41
they are off beat.very and its not in jazz count. they need some work
dpole4life16 2 years ago 6
dosent sound good... mostly cause its not a JAZZ BAND
Barron767 3 years ago 57
@Barron767 DOESN'T SOUND GOOD BECAUSE THEY SUCK PERIOD HAHA
petrobomb 1 year ago