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    Swing Time Records was a United States–based record label active in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The label was founded by Jack Lauderdale in 1947 as...
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  • starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Swing Time (novel), a 2016 novel by Zadie Smith Swing Time Records, a record label active in the 1940s and '50s This...
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  • "Straight" versus swung In music, the term swing has two main uses. Colloquially, it is used to describe the propulsive quality or "feel" of a rhythm...
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  • 1930s–1950s Swing (Canadian band), a Canadian néo-trad band Swing (Hong Kong band), a Hong Kong pop music group Swing Time Records, a record label The Swing (INXS...
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  • "Sultans of Swing" is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits, written by the lead vocalist and guitarist Mark Knopfler. Dire Straits recorded a demo...
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    Swing Time is a 1936 American musical comedy film, the sixth of ten starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Directed by George Stevens for RKO, it features...
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  • Swing Time! is an album by pianist Claude Hopkins with saxophonist Budd Johnson and trombonist Vic Dickenson recorded in 1963 and originally released...
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  • Sam Clark of ABC Records Warwick Davis as Oberon Patrick Bauchau as Dr. Hacker Robert Wisdom as Jack Lauderdale of Swing Time Records Denise Dowse as Marlene...
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  • Swing Mob (sometimes known as Da Bassment Cru) was a loosely knit musical collective consisting of artists and record labels first discovered by Jodeci...
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    in which 52nd Street moved from Factory Records to Virgin Records and as a result, Diane Charlemagne's Swing Out Sister involvement ended. Together with...
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  • successful records to influence the rise of new jack swing by creating a fusion of R&B, rap, funk, disco and synthesized percussion. The new jack swing sound...
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  • Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s. It became nationally popular from the mid-1930s...
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    "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" Performed by the Fisk Jubilee Singers Problems playing this file? See media help. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is an African-American...
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  • Indigo Swing, later shortened to Indigo, was an American retro swing band of the mid-late 1990s, based out of San Francisco, California. They released...
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  • on Epic Records: 1974's Asleep at the Wheel, 1987's 10 and 1988's Western Standard Time. Hank Small of music website AllMusic awarded Swing Time three out...
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    as the "King of Swing". His orchestra did well commercially. From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the...
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    Art Farmer (category Arabesque Records artists)
    sides; the eight tracks were released as four singles by Swing Time Records. Farmer recorded further singles with Roy Porter and then, on January 21,...
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    Ray Charles (category ABC Records artists)
    Wexler find Charles in St. Petersburg. After signing with Swing Time Records, Charles recorded two more R&B hits under the name Ray Charles: "Baby, Let...
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    Diablo Swing Orchestra, also shortened DSO, is a Swedish avant-garde metal band formed in 2003. They are known for having an eclectic sound, which fuses...
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  • Swing Kids is a 1993 American historical drama film directed by Thomas Carter in his feature film debut, and starring Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale...
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    box after each swing and does not run, nor circle the bases to score a run. In 2023, Julio Rodríguez set the single-round home run record with 41 homers...
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  • Trio released in 1949 as a single on the Down Beat Records label (later known as "Swing Time Records"). The single featured American Rhythm and blues musician...
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  • charts and when influential clarinettists were household names. This was the swing era. Scott Yanow, Du Noyer, Paul (2003). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of...
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  • notable record labels, starting with R–Z. R–Z R&S Records R.I.P Society Records Rabid Records Racetrack Records Radar Records (UK) Radar Records (U.S. label)...
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  • amalgamation of rural, cowboy, polka, early Honky Tonk, old-time, Dixieland jazz, and blues blended with swing; and played by a hot string band often augmented with...
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    Asleep at the Wheel (category Swing revival ensembles)
    Asleep at the Wheel is an American Western swing music group that was formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia, in 1970, and is based in Austin, Texas. The band...
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    'Low No Swingin' in Here" and "Swing, Gate, Swing". Despite their rising popularity as performers, their early records were not commercially successful...
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  • Percy Mayfield (category Imperial Records artists)
    without success as a singer until 1947, when a small record label, Swing Time Records, signed him to record his song "Two Years of Torture," with a band that...
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    Fletcher Henderson (category Swing bandleaders)
    arranger and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and swing music. He was one of the most prolific black musical arrangers and, along...
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    from his early Swing Time sessions. Pierce ran Hollywood Records until his retirement. Although Pierce was president of Starday Records simultaneously...
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