I would like to pay tribute to young people aged 15 to 20 who come here to immortalize the songs and dances of the 40s, 50s and 60s. Congratulations to everyone who has good taste !!
I used to dance just like this with my partner in 1951. So glad to see kids interested in this once again. Hope it comes back big time....and the Big Band, too!!! I'm still swing dancing, just not quite as fast. :-)
+Amy Ayers Hi there, you may be the best person to answer this. Back in the 1950's did people learn to dance swing or did they just pick it up? For example, like how a non native of Brazil would have to learn samba because it isn't common to their country... Thank You.
Post WWll Japan. My Japanese mother learned to dance mostly to Glenn Miller hits. That's when my U.S. Air Force father met her. And here I am, 68 years later, and I still listen to Glenn Miller's hits on both 33.3 rpm records and CDs.
I'm 78 and can't really "fast dance" anymore, but can still play trombone. So I bought 3 new ones and enjoy playing Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and the beautiful ballads of that era, my favorite of which is "Stardust." ... They had really great music back then and songs with more than just 3-4 chords in them.
OMG, that's how my mom and dad danced around the house when I was a kid in the 1950s. My dad would swing my mom up and over his back, and fling her back and forth between his legs, neither one of them missing a beat.
OH MY GOD MY PARENTS & GRAND PARENTS DANCED LIKE THAT TOO DURING NEW YEARS AT OUR HOUSE PARTYS WHEN I WAS 5 YEARS OLD!! MY DAD USED TO GRAB ME TWIST ME AND FLIP ME OVER IT WAS SO MUCH FUN GREAT FUN MEMORIES!! ONE TIME MY DAD & MOM TRAINED ME AND MY BROTHER TO DANCE EXACTLY LIKE THAT AND TO DRESS LIKE THAT FOR DANCE CONTEST TO WIN A 50 POUND HUGE TURKEY WITH BOXBOF MASHED POTATOES TURKEY DRESSING CORN BISCUITS & CHAMPAGNE!! WE WERE THE LAST TO DANCE THE DANCE CONTEST WHEN WE DANCED WE WON HANDS DOWN!’ MY PARENTS & GRAND PARENTS AND GREAT GRAND PARENTS WERE SO PROUD OF US ME AND MY BROTHER WE WERE IN SEVENTH 7TH GRADE WE WOULD NEVER FORGET IT!!! OT WAS FUN SCARY AT SAME TIME THE SCHOLL TOOK SO MANY PHOTOS!!
Good Grief!...I'm 82 years old, so all this dancing was during my youth!..but, I certainly couldn't dance like that, although I sure wish I could have. But, I did the foxtrot quite well which looked like dancing "The Peabody"....this was the end of the best of the best dancing era EVER!..
Well, I’m 77 years old. My mom must’ve listened to these when she was pregnant with me cause I still dance to this music all the time maybe not as fast. but I really feel bad that my grandsons and granddaughters will never experience this era gone by. wow thanks for the memories.
I'm sending this to my grandchildren... I have one grand child trying to learn some steps. I'm like now put some heals on your feet... She like how? Lol
0:04 In the Mood 0:47 Cherokee 1:12 American Patrol 1:56 Sing Sing Sing 2:49 I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm 3:05 Johnson Rag 3:29 Don't Be That Way 3:53 Little Brown Jug 4:20 Opus One 4:42 Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart Again 5:10 Take the A Train 5:34 A String of Pearls 5:56 In the Mood (reprise)
These were the days of genuine clean fun. It was when an American dream was tangible. The swing was so popular. People respected each other. It was an era when you could leave your doors unlocked and gas up your car and pay after. It was a stabilized time in life.❤
Times have always carried their share of hardships, regardless of the era. Like everything else, there are pros and cons. Romanticizing a particular period as perfect is a mere product of nostalgia. In truth, the present holds some advantages: there are fewer wars compared to the past, and we have made progress in addressing issues such as xenophobia, sexism, and other social problems. It is important to acknowledge the flaws of the past while appreciating the advancements we have achieved in the present.
I know my history. World history and American history. This time was the peak of western civilization. Today you can see the population shopping in their pajamas, face tattoos etc..there is no comparison between the children of the European immigrants and this anything goes freak show of today. Anybody that says otherwise is delusional. You are absolutely right!
God bless you. I knew this music because of my parents (WWII greatest gemeration ever lived) and both served in the U.S. Navy. Grew up with Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, Cab Calloway, Andrew Sisters...they all were great artists. I was a product of the 70s Disco generation, so I could relate to this great music. Not comparing Disco to Big Bands, but all the same, you just could not sit still....you had to get up and dance! Great, great, music and timeless!
My dads 93 yrs old. Fought in (WW2) -The big one-. Doesnt like to talk about what happened "over there",+ all the friends he lost. He believes in his heart it was for a good cause. With all he went through, he still believes he grew up in the greatest era. I love him with all my heart.
As a little lad in Glasgow we were very very poor my dad had an accumlator radio and I remember so much the magic that got us out of these dark dark days I was only 4 at the time! wonderful thank you so much
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Jackie...it's SWING!!!! A form of Jazz. Swing is major chord harmony arrangements (other songs "arranged" into a different time, different instruments given primacy - Glen Miller gave the primary themes to woodwinds, not brass). Some original compositions and yeah, lifted sections of true classical (the masters) music changed. For fun - Benny Goodman's 1936 rendition of a Louie Prima composition, SWING, SWING, SWING. FABULOUS!!! Keep on truckin' Miss. I'm 75 now and have loved Swing since I was a child. Also - note - true Dixieland (another form of Jazz) go to Tuba Skinny here on RUclips. Fabulous!
This is my favourite song to dance to, when my husband and I went dancing I always requested the D.J to play it. We used to combine the quickstep and the jive which made it more interesting. Nowhere to dance anymore though.. Wish they would bring back the big dance halls again. I am 79, but play this song and I am 21 again xx
I feel the same way...I'll be 79 this coming Friday & still have the wonderful memories of those years....but I can still manage to dance around my kitchen ....tee hee...
I wish it would come back omg can’t get enough of swing! The young don’t know what they missed! I missed the forties with all the big swing bands! I am up there but I want to dance every day!
I'm positively in love with the electric energy of swing music and the mesmerizing dancing to accompany it. As I was browsing the comments, originally ecstatic to see people who feel the same way about Swing, I must admit I was rather disheartened by all the hate filled comments. While today's dancing is less modest, why can we not appreciate the sexual liberation dancing today has brought us, along with adoring the gorgeous dance moves that brought us here?
@@prebooomer i agree, but I feel like it's just the intuition of young people. If young people back then were exposed to social media, I suspect they may have said similar nasty things about people from the past! It's just the culture, and like we have broken racial barriers, we too can make efforts toward breaking some aspect of our historical ignorance! (coming from a fellow youth)
My grandmother sent me to the Arthur Murray Dance Studio when I was in high school. Every Saturday morning for a year. What a wonderful gift. Made me a pretty good dancer. Thanks Grandma!
Don't think there has ever been an era, other than this, that has spawned such amazing finesse, and astounding, perfectly timed groove on the dance floor. This is serious dance, here. And, from what I have seen, no other form of dance can even touch this. These people really knew how to tear shit up. It just doesn't get any better.
I was taught swing dancing in middle school (my school's tradition). I think that's what sparked my obsession with the 40's and 50's. If only more people my age knew swing! I'd love to dance like this again.
This is the reason my father loved to dance he passed away 9 years ago and even at 75 78 years old my father still love to dance and move that same way with that energy amazing amazing inspirational videos brings back memories of my father
This really cheered me up today-what fantastic music, by the legend, Glenn Miller! Oh what style! It's almost like a ballet, with upbeat high energy moves, and fun!!! Love it.
The music in this clip was NOT the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Glen did record many of the tunes we heard here, but again, this was not his band on the clip
Remember dancing with my brother at teen Town Toledo ohio 1940s. Teresa Brewer sang. Oh, what memories. So much fun. Such great music. Thanks for sharing.
j'adore les musiques cette époque ,joyeuses et aussi douces. Merci a tous ces compositeurs et musiciens qui me font rever à chaque fois que j'écoute ces morceaux.
In 1996 I met my parents in Reno for my Dad's Navy reunion. On Friday people in their 70's-80's arrived looking tired. On Saturday night some fit into their uniforms! When the Big Band music broke out they became young again! The dancing was incredible! Not as acrobatic but amazing!
Glen Miller''s orchestra's performance of swing music is out of this world & an electrifying experience listening to this rythimic & beat arrangement is sensational & the dancers enjoying in participating with frenzy of movements to the rythim & beat.
I was born July 29th 1963 but I'm going to tell you something I'm about loving this thanks to my grandmother born in 1900 and my grandfather born in 1899 grew up in the later years of the Swing era for listening to something alternative and not the garbage music we listened to it today this is the best
Makes me think of my parents when they met in England during World War II. The Swing and Boogie Woogie sounds and dancing had it going on and still do.
Mom & Dad were exhibition dancers back then and I've never lost my love for swing bands. ..back in the day when musicians made the music and not tech processing.
It's music and dancing like this that totally explains why women were always asking "Are my seams straight?!" I don't care what year or decade this is, this type of music will NEVER go out of style. Any music you can't sit still to will always be around, 'cause ya can't ignore the beat!
It really was! I would spin my wife on the dance floor at her high school sock hops, slide her between my legs, forewards and back, lift her to my left side and then swing her around to my right side, and spin her again, back in the late 60's, and we did a lot of the moves seen here, because that is where the Bebop came from, Jive dancing, Lindy hop and the Jitterbug were all forerunners of the Bebop, which by the way is a lot more fun than the twist, locomotion, or any of the other silly dances they started to invent in the 60's. Most of the other students would clear a space on the dance floor and just watch us go at it. My wife was and is a gorgeous Strawberry Red Haired woman, quite tall at 5' 9", and only weighed 130 lbs, has more curves than a Nevada mountain rd. When I spun her, that circle skirt that she wore, and still does today, would rise up and show off the cutest butt, and the best darn legs in the state of Nevada!! I was, and still am 215 lbs 6' 3" tall, quite strong, and could get away with doing all the moves. We still Bebop and Jive, at our local swing dance club meets, and the other dancers still give us some space and watch us go at it. This style of dancing will keep you fit, strong, and happy!! Only difference now is that I don't throw her around like I used to, as I am a bit older than back then!
@@treseancann1261 You can appreciate one style without bashing another there is no need to call twerking nonsense when there is nothing wrong with it it’s a valid dance too
@@di7209 unfortunately it is nonsense. A woman extending to vulgarity to get attention isn’t a classy respectable woman that should be raising your children unless you want a bad influence and your children twerking too which I doubt. Even these street guys don’t want women like that that’s why most of them who are like that are considered smash and passes. There’s a reason guys get hyped when they go out with a classy woman who’s decent and has got her life straight and isn’t fazed by a attention seeking women who wants the wrong attention from men I’ve seen how guys react it’s completely different and if we start raising a society/children to more respectful things they will be more inclined to be respectful too saying twerking is alright is complacency and raises a complacent society.
What struck me as strange is that this is like four very, VERY popular songs all mashed together. I like it! Especially ‘In The Mood’ and ‘Sing, Sing, Sing’
Man O Man, I never get tired of watching this !!! Why O Why did time have to pass. Wow 367 thumbs down ??? Those are people who don't know jack shit about good music and real dancing
Helloooo Linda, you are interested in those oldies but goldies music. I played them numerous times on my radio broadcasts. I am happy to have a friend who likes that kind of music.
There are places around where you can go and learn to do Lindy Hop dancing, which obviously bring in this music. Used to do it ages ago, and it is sooo much fun. If you like this music, it's really worth having a go, and not too hard to learn. When we got married, we had some swing type music, and some of the folks from the Lindy Hop club I belonged to came along, it was great. They also did a 'shim sham' which is a group swing jazz dance. What country are you based in?
It will take younger people like us to keep this music alive. I know that our grandparents would love for us to make every effort to keep swing alive. As a fan of swing I will do everything I can to keep Swing alive.
Thanks to Magic 61, 610am radio in San Francisco, (from the 1980s) I was introduced to this music before I was a teenager! So as I got older I moved to other music, but I get tired of it and always come back home to the Swing Era! This is my favorite kind of music!
The absolute best music and dancing ever! Look how happy they are and the ladies look fabulous in their skirts! My generation missed out on this and it's a crying shame....
We’ll all revert back to this amazing dancing ... it’s a given! I’m going to classes now at 58! And love it. It’s great to dance with a partner and enjoy the fabulous music of the era that will come round again guys and gals!
I was raised on swing & big band. I Love dancing to it. TIMELESS our neighborhood was so multi cultural, every house had folks from all over. we all had so much fun. dinner time was the BEST 4 us kids, as long as a kid was in a chair, didn't matter who he or she was. I Am So Blessed. we all are! look 4 blessings, & that's what u find
Well in kinda part in this year that of the feminism is kinda incorrect, now the women for no reason want to kill their babys , a lot of they're les (i dont really think thats correct) and they hate men :(
I love swing dancing. When I was a young girl there was a tall guy in our town that could really swing dance,he could throw me all around and I fell in love with this dancing. I later on became a dance teacher.
My Aunt Cassie & Uncle Charlie every family party us kids would sit in awe and watch them dance...I miss them so much...hope your dancing in heaven...love you two😪💚💚💚💚💚
Yeah it was, if you were middle class or higher, and white, everybody else thought it pretty much sucked shit, especially if you were Black, Hispanic, Gay, or any other minority, or white trailer trash!
I loved it. Thanks for publishing. I love swing dancing. A small club here is bringing it the first Sunday of every month, lessons and a live big band. Hope it catches on and continues. All ages gather here.
I would like to pay tribute to young people aged 15 to 20 who come here to immortalize the songs and dances of the 40s, 50s and 60s. Congratulations to everyone who has good taste !!
Lotta luvv ;)) we know a good dancing song when we hear one
@@ellax7434 yep ! cheers...
Thanks, only 16; been listening to a lot of glenn miller lately.
@@904_Florida Congratulations Seven...
been listening to these for awhile now and they are great
When you just KNOW your granny was cooler than you'll ever be!😄
I know, right? It's embarrassing.
Lol
You re sooooooo right, fella.
she cool
Claris. 'still can't get my head around ''gramp's ever haveing sex,.'''
I used to dance just like this with my partner in 1951. So glad to see kids interested in this once again. Hope it comes back big time....and the Big Band, too!!! I'm still swing dancing, just not quite as fast. :-)
+Amy Ayers Hi there, you may be the best person to answer this. Back in the 1950's did people learn to dance swing or did they just pick it up? For example, like how a non native of Brazil would have to learn samba because it isn't common to their country... Thank You.
+SweetTea742 hmm..still no answer. Id like to know too :)
Gema Jimenez I'm still waiting too lol :-)
SweetTea742 haha hopefully she'll reply
would you dance with me darling?
Post WWll Japan. My Japanese mother learned to dance mostly to Glenn Miller hits. That's when my U.S. Air Force father met her. And here I am, 68 years later, and I still listen to Glenn Miller's hits on both 33.3 rpm records and CDs.
That music is super gold, my dear
I'm 78 and can't really "fast dance" anymore, but can still play trombone. So I bought 3 new ones and enjoy playing Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and the beautiful ballads of that era, my favorite of which is "Stardust." ... They had really great music back then and songs with more than just 3-4 chords in them.
OMG, that's how my mom and dad danced around the house when I was a kid in the 1950s. My dad would swing my mom up and over his back, and fling her back and forth between his legs, neither one of them missing a beat.
Classy ages classy people
My granny and grandad from dublin used to dance to the andrew sisters
That must've been freaking cool.
OH MY GOD MY
PARENTS & GRAND PARENTS DANCED LIKE THAT TOO DURING NEW YEARS AT OUR HOUSE PARTYS WHEN I WAS 5 YEARS OLD!! MY DAD USED TO GRAB ME TWIST ME AND FLIP ME OVER IT WAS SO MUCH FUN GREAT FUN MEMORIES!! ONE TIME MY DAD & MOM TRAINED ME AND MY BROTHER TO DANCE EXACTLY LIKE THAT AND TO DRESS LIKE THAT FOR DANCE CONTEST TO WIN A 50 POUND HUGE TURKEY WITH BOXBOF MASHED POTATOES TURKEY DRESSING CORN BISCUITS & CHAMPAGNE!! WE WERE THE LAST TO DANCE THE DANCE CONTEST WHEN WE DANCED WE WON HANDS DOWN!’ MY PARENTS & GRAND PARENTS AND GREAT GRAND PARENTS WERE SO PROUD OF US ME AND MY BROTHER
WE WERE IN SEVENTH 7TH GRADE WE WOULD NEVER FORGET IT!!! OT WAS FUN SCARY AT SAME TIME THE SCHOLL TOOK SO MANY PHOTOS!!
Bullshit
Good Grief!...I'm 82 years old, so all this dancing was during my youth!..but, I certainly couldn't dance like that, although I sure wish I could have. But, I did the foxtrot quite well which looked like dancing "The Peabody"....this was the end of the best of the best dancing era EVER!..
+Salvatore Pedi Some people my age seem to think everyone from the past looked like Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra, and danced like them too.
Well, I’m 77 years old. My mom must’ve listened to these when she was pregnant with me cause I still dance to this music all the time maybe not as fast. but I really feel bad that my grandsons and granddaughters will never experience this era gone by. wow thanks for the memories.
I'm sending this to my grandchildren... I have one grand child trying to learn some steps. I'm like now put some heals on your feet... She like how? Lol
0:04 In the Mood
0:47 Cherokee
1:12 American Patrol
1:56 Sing Sing Sing
2:49 I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
3:05 Johnson Rag
3:29 Don't Be That Way
3:53 Little Brown Jug
4:20 Opus One
4:42 Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart Again
5:10 Take the A Train
5:34 A String of Pearls
5:56 In the Mood (reprise)
Cool
Thanks.
This is what I was looking for. Good job 👌
sing sing sing is sooooooo good
Beautiful play list. each one is special in its own particular way.
These were the days of genuine clean fun. It was when an American dream was tangible. The swing was so popular. People respected each other. It was an era when you could leave your doors unlocked and gas up your car and pay after. It was a stabilized time in life.❤
Times have always carried their share of hardships, regardless of the era. Like everything else, there are pros and cons. Romanticizing a particular period as perfect is a mere product of nostalgia. In truth, the present holds some advantages: there are fewer wars compared to the past, and we have made progress in addressing issues such as xenophobia, sexism, and other social problems. It is important to acknowledge the flaws of the past while appreciating the advancements we have achieved in the present.
@@AraneaTempestatum
The era wasn't perfect but less complicated and problematic in my opinion which I am entitled to as well as you are.
Absolutely
I know my history. World history and American history. This time was the peak of western civilization. Today you can see the population shopping in their pajamas, face tattoos etc..there is no comparison between the children of the European immigrants and this anything goes freak show of today. Anybody that says otherwise is delusional.
You are absolutely right!
You are not a woman
Boy, when you asked a woman to dance in those days, you'd better be DAMNED sure you knew what you were doing!
absolutely !!!!!!!!!
HOLY Cowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Haha for real
Great comment. 🙈😅
And that you're in condition!
John Edwards not to mention needing to have COMPLETE trust in your partner.
I wish people still danced like this!!! Those are some mind-blowing moves!!
For sure friend !!!
My friend keeps telling me that I dance in regular parties like I escaped from interwar period🙈
I do, live to a rock and roll band Friday, and the Dance School Summer Ball Saturday, today, 23 july 23.
Nice, ...at 72.
Some people, like BIDEL KASTRO, said it was rubbish.
I wish I still could .-------
85 and cant stop my feet doing as they will, but the body cant follow them up. Oh sweet memories of a young lad.
God bless you. I knew this music because of my parents (WWII greatest gemeration ever lived) and both served in the U.S. Navy. Grew up with Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, Cab Calloway, Andrew Sisters...they all were great artists. I was a product of the 70s Disco generation, so I could relate to this great music. Not comparing Disco to Big Bands, but all the same, you just could not sit still....you had to get up and dance! Great, great, music and timeless!
Ya gotta love this!!!! 💘
What a tart
Donald Remnant you are as young as u feel x
@@bonitaknierim8677 lad did you see marlon brando
It would be awkward to meet him😶😶
My dads 93 yrs old. Fought in (WW2) -The big one-. Doesnt like to talk about what happened "over there",+ all the friends he lost. He believes in his heart it was for a good cause. With all he went through, he still believes he grew up in the greatest era. I love him with all my heart.
MY SON OMAHA BEACH WAS A MASACURE LOTS BLOOD AND GUTSBLESS PAPA
HEY HE WENT FOR YOU YOURS YOUR GRAND CHILDREN WONT BE DRAFTED
Am In x military my respect to your dad and to your family i thank your dad for serving.
Lots of love sweetheart 💗💗💗💗💗
My grandmother just turned 85 years old,and she always tells me fun going to dance halls back then were.
As a little lad in Glasgow we were very very poor my dad had an accumlator radio and I remember so much the magic that got us out of these dark dark days I was only 4 at the time! wonderful thank you so much
I know I'm 23 but I think the classic music is really beautiful
I know I’m ol’d enuf to remember windissa tzong came out
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I love jazz so much, and I am 17! You just have to dance!
David Mehnert iiiii
Jackie...it's SWING!!!! A form of Jazz. Swing is major chord harmony arrangements (other songs "arranged" into a different time, different instruments given primacy - Glen Miller gave the primary themes to woodwinds, not brass). Some original compositions and yeah, lifted sections of true classical (the masters) music changed. For fun - Benny Goodman's 1936 rendition of a Louie Prima composition, SWING, SWING, SWING. FABULOUS!!! Keep on truckin' Miss. I'm 75 now and have loved Swing since I was a child. Also - note - true Dixieland (another form of Jazz) go to Tuba Skinny here on RUclips. Fabulous!
This is my favourite song to dance to, when my husband and I went dancing I always requested the D.J to play it. We used to combine the quickstep and the jive which made it more interesting. Nowhere to dance anymore though.. Wish they would bring back the big dance halls again. I am 79, but play this song and I am 21 again xx
I feel the same way...I'll be 79 this coming Friday & still have the wonderful memories of those years....but I can still manage to dance around my kitchen ....tee hee...
you rock n roll angel :)
im 33 n this gets me 2 my bones you know its just timeless :)
as are we :)
I wish it would come back omg can’t get enough of swing! The young don’t know what they missed! I missed the forties with all the big swing bands! I am up there but I want to dance every day!
I'm positively in love with the electric energy of swing music and the mesmerizing dancing to accompany it. As I was browsing the comments, originally ecstatic to see people who feel the same way about Swing, I must admit I was rather disheartened by all the hate filled comments. While today's dancing is less modest, why can we not appreciate the sexual liberation dancing today has brought us, along with adoring the gorgeous dance moves that brought us here?
You should not look at the YT comments section, because some of the dumbest shit imaginable gets posted there!!
@@prebooomer i agree, but I feel like it's just the intuition of young people. If young people back then were exposed to social media, I suspect they may have said similar nasty things about people from the past! It's just the culture, and like we have broken racial barriers, we too can make efforts toward breaking some aspect of our historical ignorance! (coming from a fellow youth)
Love this, really uplifting glen miller music❤ Bring it on !!
My grandmother sent me to the Arthur Murray Dance Studio when I was in high school. Every Saturday morning for a year. What a wonderful gift. Made me a pretty good dancer. Thanks Grandma!
Don't think there has ever been an era, other than this, that has spawned such amazing finesse, and astounding, perfectly timed groove on the dance floor. This is serious dance, here. And, from what I have seen, no other form of dance can even touch this. These people really knew how to tear shit up. It just doesn't get any better.
I was taught swing dancing in middle school (my school's tradition). I think that's what sparked my obsession with the 40's and 50's.
If only more people my age knew swing! I'd love to dance like this again.
swing dancing came from the 20s and 30s born in harlem
These people can dance and I am so jealous of them. Boy they are so damn good
Get it together let's dance!!!!!!!!!
Yes
Absolutely 💯
I am from this era, and what a wonderful era it was for swing music and dancing. I just can't fathom 1600 dislikes for this video!
Whoever they are, we dont want them here anyways - i wish it was still popular to dance like this so i could learn itttt
@@ellax7434 you can learn it its just nowadays hard because people forget how to do it
Their missing out on a lot, and have a weird eye/ ear for goodness!
put it down to poor taste
I've seen home movies of my Mom & my aunt jiving like we see here in the film clip. Mom knew how to dance.
I love all of it - the powerful main part, the synchronization, the costume changes and the quiet ending.
This is the reason my father loved to dance he passed away 9 years ago and even at 75 78 years old my father still love to dance and move that same way with that energy amazing amazing inspirational videos brings back memories of my father
Hello Maria, How are you doing?
I like swing,jives, old. Music like dis, it makes ur heart young again
That's America ! So much to cherish and love about her !
This really cheered me up today-what fantastic music, by the legend, Glenn Miller! Oh what style! It's almost like a ballet, with upbeat high energy moves, and fun!!! Love it.
Oh wow, that was brilliant.
The music in this clip was NOT the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Glen did record many of the tunes we heard here, but again, this was not his band on the clip
Wow, all I can say is WOW. The love of swing dance and big band music is what brought me here. These dancers can really move.
Wish there were a club to go to with this music. Would be so fun. And I would love to waltz also.
Me too 👍🏼
This.... this right here is dancing. I love this. Fantastic music and dancing. What fun times
in 4 years it will be the 20's again. lets bring back swing...........
Swing is still very popular. I just wish I could dance it. Love swing music. It's happy stuff and will never diminish in popularity.
It would be fkcn awesom! I've never thought of it this way. Hopefully I can live through the 50s and rock with Chuck Berry!
If that happens... I could finally get a jazz band together and find gigs easily!!!
we are bringing back the depression instead
why do you say in 4 years?
Listen guys, I was born in 1942, lived through all this, loved it then, loving it even more now, thanks for posting.
born in 44
best music time in my opinion.
+B3rettaZ26 From 97' here and OMG I LOVE IT SOO MUCH!
where are you!!! lets dance babe!!!
+B3rettaZ26 I'm from Mexico ;'3
Wow!!!!!!!!... Swing dancing!!!!!..... Amazing!!!!!!!....
Esto si era bailar. Música buenisima❤
Well, I'm a millennial and I'm into this stuff. I personally prefer the 1900s era than this era, thank you for posting this marvelous video
Glad you like this music. I'm afraid your generation got short changed.
Somebody is here You certainly have taste..
God I love watching our grandparents as young people having a good time! They deserved it!
It is wonderful to see these young boys and young girls dancing so beautifully.
Remember dancing with my brother at teen Town Toledo ohio 1940s. Teresa Brewer sang. Oh, what memories. So much fun. Such great music. Thanks for sharing.
Judging from the way these people are dancing, my dad was right when he said a long time ago "you kids today don't know how to have fun".
j'adore les musiques cette époque ,joyeuses et aussi douces. Merci a tous ces compositeurs et musiciens qui me font rever à chaque fois que j'écoute ces morceaux.
Vous avez raison!
This. Music. Never. Gets. Old.....
I play this music while shooting people in roblox big paintball
In 1996 I met my parents in Reno for my Dad's Navy reunion. On Friday people in their 70's-80's arrived looking tired. On Saturday night some fit into their uniforms! When the Big Band music broke out they became young again! The dancing was incredible! Not as acrobatic but amazing!
'Sing, sing, sing' is the coolest song of the 20th Century.
Grandpa knew how to swing it! THE GREATEST GENERATION!!
Before Television people were more imaginative & motivated..instead of the swing we now have the slouch.
Glen Miller''s orchestra's performance of swing music is out of this world & an electrifying experience listening to this rythimic & beat arrangement is sensational & the dancers enjoying in participating with frenzy of movements to the rythim & beat.
The music in this clip isn't by the Glenn Miller Orchestra. It's a different band that recorded this.
"In the mood", is what got me into the genre.
So lovely music !
Dėkui draugas.Francois Kneider
ale babeczki tańczyły , a chłopaki ho , ho sprawni jak Mistrzowie z imprezy 5 kółek
it's swing or charleston , no ?
Merci à vous Dorothy .
I'm 15 years old and I love music and dancing like this more than anything else : ) I wish more people my age liked this stuff
My Dad and Mom back in WW2 , miss them with all my heart...
The music was so great, too! Big Band sound can't be beat!
I feel like in those old swing clubs the big bands got just as much of a show as the audience did. Those people really knew how to dance. 💃🏼🎷🎺🎼
I was born July 29th 1963 but I'm going to tell you something I'm about loving this thanks to my grandmother born in 1900 and my grandfather born in 1899 grew up in the later years of the Swing era for listening to something alternative and not the garbage music we listened to it today this is the best
My Mom used to dance to Glenn Miller (and others) at the DanceLand in Montreal in the late 40s. She loved it. I do miss her. Gone in 1987.
Great Music ❤
It's no wonder they say the greatest music came from this generation
We COULD still have that great music playing today, but Garbage-Is-What-Sells, and that's what we hear all around us.
I'm watching this adoration and a big smile on my face 😀 I wanna learn this but I have nobody to do it with haha
Makes me think of my parents when they met in England during World War II. The Swing and Boogie Woogie sounds and dancing had it going on and still do.
I love Glenn Miller.
. ESPECTACULAR!!!
GOOD SHOW!!!, from Argentina
Even as an older man, my dad could swing! He was a great leader, too. I didn't know how to swing, but I could do it with him!
That's adorable!
Kirsten I. Russell
Mom & Dad were exhibition dancers back then and I've never lost my love for swing bands. ..back in the day when musicians made the music and not tech processing.
It's music and dancing like this that totally explains why women were always asking "Are my seams straight?!" I don't care what year or decade this is, this type of music will NEVER go out of style. Any music you can't sit still to will always be around, 'cause ya can't ignore the beat!
I first saw swing in 1940 at a high school dance in Kansas. I was 3. I loved it.
To były wspaniałe utwory muzyczne i tańce z czasów mojej młodości - łza się w oku kręci . . .
Say what???
@@boblebovidge7049Translation: "It was great music and dance from my youth - brings tears to my eyes"
A time when dancing was clearly so much fun!
It really was! I would spin my wife on the dance floor at her high school sock hops, slide her between my legs, forewards and back, lift her to my left side and then swing her around to my right side, and spin her again, back in the late 60's, and we did a lot of the moves seen here, because that is where the Bebop came from, Jive dancing, Lindy hop and the Jitterbug were all forerunners of the Bebop, which by the way is a lot more fun than the twist, locomotion, or any of the other silly dances they started to invent in the 60's. Most of the other students would clear a space on the dance floor and just watch us go at it. My wife was and is a gorgeous Strawberry Red Haired woman, quite tall at 5' 9", and only weighed 130 lbs, has more curves than a Nevada mountain rd. When I spun her, that circle skirt that she wore, and still does today, would rise up and show off the cutest butt, and the best darn legs in the state of Nevada!! I was, and still am 215 lbs 6' 3" tall, quite strong, and could get away with doing all the moves. We still Bebop and Jive, at our local swing dance club meets, and the other dancers still give us some space and watch us go at it. This style of dancing will keep you fit, strong, and happy!! Only difference now is that I don't throw her around like I used to, as I am a bit older than back then!
Better than that twerking nonsense today.
@@treseancann1261 You can appreciate one style without bashing another there is no need to call twerking nonsense when there is nothing wrong with it it’s a valid dance too
@@di7209 unfortunately it is nonsense. A woman extending to vulgarity to get attention isn’t a classy respectable woman that should be raising your children unless you want a bad influence and your children twerking too which I doubt. Even these street guys don’t want women like that that’s why most of them who are like that are considered smash and passes. There’s a reason guys get hyped when they go out with a classy woman who’s decent and has got her life straight and isn’t fazed by a attention seeking women who wants the wrong attention from men I’ve seen how guys react it’s completely different and if we start raising a society/children to more respectful things they will be more inclined to be respectful too saying twerking is alright is complacency and raises a complacent society.
What struck me as strange is that this is like four very, VERY popular songs all mashed together. I like it! Especially ‘In The Mood’ and ‘Sing, Sing, Sing’
this looks so FUN!!!!!!!!!! omg i want to dance like this
I am so glad my parents introduced me to their music and the dancing!
With my future behind me, enjoy it all, it is pleasure supreme.
Man O Man, I never get tired of watching this !!! Why O Why did time have to pass. Wow 367 thumbs down ??? Those are people who don't know jack shit about good music and real dancing
+Alterjunkie And, they don't know the first thing about America!!
+Bernard Kerman HEY LOOK EVERYONE ITS A WALKING TALKING HAMBURGER!!
Alterjunkieq
don't worry about the crap.
I wish I were born during this time-just LOVE this music!
Helloooo Linda, you are interested in those oldies but goldies music. I played them numerous times on my radio broadcasts. I am happy to have a friend who likes that kind of music.
There are places around where you can go and learn to do Lindy Hop dancing, which obviously bring in this music. Used to do it ages ago, and it is sooo much fun. If you like this music, it's really worth having a go, and not too hard to learn. When we got married, we had some swing type music, and some of the folks from the Lindy Hop club I belonged to came along, it was great. They also did a 'shim sham' which is a group swing jazz dance. What country are you based in?
It will take younger people like us to keep this music alive. I know that our grandparents would love for us to make every effort to keep swing alive. As a fan of swing I will do everything I can to keep Swing alive.
LOL Get "born again "
Lol :)
Thanks to Magic 61, 610am radio in San Francisco, (from the 1980s) I was introduced to this music before I was a teenager! So as I got older I moved to other music, but I get tired of it and always come back home to the Swing Era! This is my favorite kind of music!
Watching this made feel good this morning. Pure energy!
I was born in 1965 and I absolutely love this era of music the song.. sound..and dancing
Me to !!!
The absolute best music and dancing ever! Look how happy they are and the ladies look fabulous in their skirts! My generation missed out on this and it's a crying shame....
Wow! It seems that those days were the best!.Kids today need this.
To this day people still are dancing to this music.
I've watched this so many times and still get a kick out of it...
I'm so in love with the sound of the music of the era. so fun 👍🏻🎵🔊
Better than that twerking nonsense today.
We’ll all revert back to this amazing dancing ... it’s a given! I’m going to classes now at 58! And love it. It’s great to dance with a partner and enjoy the fabulous music of the era that will come round again guys and gals!
Hello Tracey, How are you doing?
Come on! I need this in my life! Bring back swing dancing!!!! PLEASE!!! I'm despreate!!!!!
I hear you. I can't stand that twerking crap today.
how I wish I could just step into the screen and join them there!
That's real dancing to real music! Dig it!
I was raised on swing & big band. I Love dancing to it. TIMELESS
our neighborhood was so multi cultural, every house had folks from all over. we all had so much fun. dinner time was the BEST 4 us kids, as long as a kid was in a chair, didn't matter who he or she was. I Am So Blessed.
we all are! look 4 blessings, & that's what u find
Hi y'all I was born in 1968 and I dig this music it's just groovy God bless you youngsters
I love this. I can't wait to dance to this while listening to Float-Switchfoot with my Fiance. We are going to bring it back.
Well in kinda part in this year that of the feminism is kinda incorrect, now the women for no reason want to kill their babys , a lot of they're les (i dont really think thats correct) and they hate men
:(
we need to bring swing back!
Noah Calderon I don't believe nazis were too fond of it
swing is fun, not as hard to dance as some other styles and overall swing is one of the best styles that Americans have come up with :-)
swing is everywhere yo just need to know where to fund it..
Absolutely!
Don McCall
Fabulous. Thank-you so much for posting. Zing! went the strings of my heart watching every one of them.
I love swing dancing. When I was a young girl there was a tall guy in our town that could really swing dance,he could throw me all around and I fell in love with this dancing. I later on became a dance teacher.
What energy these young folks had! Marvellous clip - thank you!
My great grandma is in this video omg 😮🤯
That's AMAZING!
@@elizabethcherry3933 ik I didn't know she looked like that untill my mom showed me a picture of her when she was in her 20's
Just out of curiosity - if you don't mind - could you say which part is she in? You're so lucky to be able to see her in a video :)
Is she the smexi one jiving like a boss?!
My Aunt Cassie & Uncle Charlie every family party us kids would sit in awe and watch them dance...I miss them so much...hope your dancing in heaven...love you two😪💚💚💚💚💚
Hello Kimberly, How are you doing?
My mom & dad's era. I grew up with this music. Makes me think of them always when I hear it.
They sure knew how to dance in those days love it
50 years ago we were slim and strong and danced like this. I am as old as dirt now but still love this video.
What dancing - what music - what a great life we had all those years ago !!!!!
Yeah it was, if you were middle class or higher, and white, everybody else thought it pretty much sucked shit, especially if you were Black, Hispanic, Gay, or any other minority, or white trailer trash!
Boy, my daddy could cut a rug to this music!
😯woah
Fora de série.
Maravilha.
Sonoridade da Orquestra é 1000.
Swing Puro👍👍👍👍
I loved it. Thanks for publishing. I love swing dancing. A small club here is bringing it the first Sunday of every month, lessons and a live big band. Hope it catches on and continues. All ages gather here.
My weekly visit to get my fix of good music. :) Good stuff.