Elsewhere on YouTube I saw some guy uploading the Casa Loma Orchestra with the claim that they were the first Swing band. What!? I don't even usually class Casa Loma as either a hot or a swing band but it is just plain nutty to fail to acknowledge Fletcher and Don Redman as the Fathers of the Swing Orchestra .
Is this Bean?
SLaDueP 1 week ago
Williams & Henderson 19??
Harlem, I feel crazy, rhythm’s on my brain
Music mournful, lazy, Harlem, I’m insane
Those trumpets and those wailing trombones, singing saxophones
Hi dee hi has got me razzmatazz with all those mellow moans
The blues make me frantic, black jazz brings me down
Once I was romantic, now I stray uptown
Jungle drums with savage madness
Give me the blues and steal my gladness
I’ve lost the mind and so let Harlem I must go.
MrARvWD 4 months ago
@MrARvWD My best assumption is the Gregorian year 1927 or 1928.
n64wilbert 4 months ago
Fletcher is THE MAN
slowdream101 10 months ago 2
Elsewhere on YouTube I saw some guy uploading the Casa Loma Orchestra with the claim that they were the first Swing band. What!? I don't even usually class Casa Loma as either a hot or a swing band but it is just plain nutty to fail to acknowledge Fletcher and Don Redman as the Fathers of the Swing Orchestra .
jeddak5 10 months ago