Slim and Slam remixed: Flat Foot Frutti and the Jump Session

[dukeuke1]

Hey wait here, TH@`s Slim on BASS ! Who is playing Guitar ?

[BixLives32]

--No point for YOU to listen to ANY music. All musicians are derivative of themselves. (Is this not obvious?) Slim Galliard and Slam Stewart were IMPORTANT musicians. I LOVE Slam's technique of bowing and humming leads. Listen to some records where Slam is playing without Slim and vice versa. Jazz was not created in a dry university lab by some tenureed tweedy prof. It was created by a bunch of drunks at 5AM in a smoky after-hours place. And thank God for those great gentlemen.

[elliebridie]

ok so they are the same ... but they still sound great !

[hobbit1410]

I actually think this makes both songs sound cooler!!

[billrrrrr]

I wish you had given us this incredible footage without playing games. Slam Steward and Slim Gaillard offered a delightful salad complete with meats and fruit, while everybody else was serving hamburger. Please post these pieces as they were intended.

[playgirlc]

nice mix lol :o)

[MarcBrewer]

Jeez - You must LOVE the Ramones!

[BenjaminTLaing]

You could do this with modern music, but that's because it's mostly produced at the same tempos with a metronome keeping time.

These guys are metronomes, and it almost aint human.

For the most part, musicians are not of this caliber.

Actually Tutti Frutti didn't sync at all for me- but the other two tracks are unbelievably good.

[bluerailroad]

Love it, love it, love it. Did you use some electronic speed-adjusting to have the rhythms sync up?

[mrmabstoa]

Wheres the Coca-cola and KFC platters like on tv?

[EthanOberlin]

this hole thing is funny, i like them now i love them. and so what if they sound the same, maybe some one was infuluenced by it.

[EthanOberlin]

this hole thing is funny, i like them now i love them

[BrettSaraghi]

I just can't get enough of Slim and Slam, thank you so much for multiplying the joy !!!!

[pointshore]

The underling chord changes for both are from "I got rhythm".

[ljliljohn]

Actually it is 'Flat Foot Floogie', not Frutti. Benny Goodman made a pretty good version of Floogie, also. Slim has been my man since the 1940's. Search for 'Slim's Jam', with Bird and Diz and Jack Mcvea (slim calls him 'McVouttie) among other great jazzmen for a real treat.

[rblaustein]

Your taste is in your mouth! This is annoying!!!

[DajaWaja]

haahhaha that's because they based most of their songs in rhythm changes....But not all, this guyz really could play to a lot of changes!!

[freshlysqueezedmusic]

Whats the footage?

[mooncalfwilliams]

it would've been better if you had gotten the bridges synchronized properly.

[TrueLight55]

Does anyone know where one can get a listen to their song Tutti Booty recorded in 1938? I've heard that it bears a strong resemblance to Tutti Frutti by Little Richard. Stealing?? Well record producers both black and white of the 50s state that this was a common practice in the 50s. Take a previous recording...switch up the melody a bit, change the instrumentals and change the lyrics. Very common. This is of course what happened with Maybellene and so many others.

[DanceThisTime1]

Of course it works like that: you've discover that these sort of songs use 8 times pulse tempo. No pb to find a jimmi hendrix song and make it work on the left side!

[SuperJackRiley]

good stuff........I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume fascetiousness in your "hate" of these guys. I'll keep the genius label reserved, but these were some fine musicians and outstanding entertainers.

[bfotk]

Galliard was practically married to the AABA song form, and almost always with "Rhythm" changes. So there's going to be a thread of, to put it kindly, continuity through much of his work.

On the other hand, one of Lennie Tristano's precepts was using the familiar harmonic structures of well-known pop song so intensively that the changes became internalized to the extent that the improvisers were essentially freed from them...or at least freed from thinking about them.

[PopppaBlue59]

They had a sound...and it worked! End of story in my mind.

[tomlynch42]

Why I hate know it all's is you.

[legrandmaitre]

If only you had 10% of Slim Gaillard's genius.

[harryD714]

I found that really enjoyable haha, I like Slim and Slam but the songs do get a bit boring on their own, When they're put together they sound pretty hip

[CrocodileBurgers]

Right, now go listen to "That's what you call romance"... hardly the same is it?

Besides, you can do this with just about anyone, I've heard it done with Nickelback.

[JCsaxophile]

Decent mix to a point but POOR OBJECTIVE!!! Accentuate the positive boy!! One of the main sources of the late30 & 40s was the blues and "rhythym changes" which the latter is what these songs are based from.. Keep the half full not half ass empty!

[Crazylegslopez]

All Louis Prima songs end the same... Most hip hop comes from a sample of one song.... so what... Long Island Eddie is right and as a swing dancer they are PERFECT songs to dance to!

[fummspowo]

You just have a very superficial sense of music, to my mind!

[Nittacci]

You could do the same with most hip-hop.

[MDM616]

I didn't know there only were three Slim & Slam songs.

[morganfjp]

come on, you tweaked it a little to make the tempos match, no?

i like ray ellington's version of f.f.f., it's a little slower but still groovy, baby! sorry it;s not on youtube at the mo.

anyway - well done - nice mix!

[LongIslandEddie]

The music was composed for (and in) a period where it was primarily set into the contemporary timing for dancing. The "jitterbug" was the real dance of the day and this music and tempo is right on...

[potentperson]

Exactly right. I'm a lindy hopper (jitterbugger doesn't have the same ring to it) and both these tracks are great to dance to. Great tempo, great bounce, great vibe. Do two rights make a wrong?

[lawrence2569]

My Dad just was all smiles when he heard this, he's 90

[possiblyblank]

HAHA Oh that's beautiful. Nicely done.

Still! I'm sure you don't "hate" Slim & Slam, even if all their songs DO sound the same.

[casperfandango]

Wow. I love Slim & Slam EVEN MORE now.

[freshlysqueezedmusic]

@casperfandango

Ha ha - exactly!!!!

[twobarbreak]

yup, both songs swinging right in the pocket...that's what makes them so great....

[stevo4es]

your a dick

[yeahimsosexy]

as if you couldn't do this with pop music today.

songwriting back then was as formulaic as it is today. but this is pretty funny, i have to admit.

doesn't change the fact that those guys could swing like nobody's business

[varneydance]

@yeahimsosexy

Agreed. See youtube video: watch?v=qHBVnMf2t7

[evanheart]

Wow~

[joeisjazz]

OH MAN THIS IS AWESOME!!! Three songs that sync up perfecty together!? These guys were geniuses!

[gittahfiend]

that's what makes them slim & slam.

[858jc]

Take a music harmony class and hopefully you'll begin to understand musical composition. Big Cheese and laf98 are on point. I had the privilege to meet both Slim and Slam in 1982. Slim was performing in a supper club in Seattle and Slam was in New York for a concert. They knew musical composition. Slam had perfect pitch.

[BigCheeseAndJiveRats]

If you listen to the full collection of Slim recordings, it's amazing how differently the various musicians play essentially the same changes and yes, it's the lyrics and vibe that separate the songs from one another.

[MnkyNoTrxn]

The form is going to be all the same, thats the style, its the lyrics and the vout that you really wanna listen to.

[laf98z]

Well, what's to be expected? It is the Swing Chorus afterall. AABA 8 beats to a bar, four bars to a phrase. By that logic, all swing sounds the same. Simple, but it was very common for that day. But Slim and Slam are still really bad ass.

[drunkcall]

That is bad ass.

[littlefeetoffury]

man, that's pretty sweet!