joey de vivre

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I Like to Riff - (40's Jive)

Artist Song
Daisie Mae & Her Hep Cats  That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch  
Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends  Snatch & Grab It  
Jimmy Lunceford  I Got It  
Delta Rhythm Boys  Don't Knock It  
Cab Calloway  How Big Can You Get?  
Wingy Manone  Stop The War
(The Cats Are Killing Themselves)  
Irene Day w Gene Krupa  How `Bout That Mess?  
Glen Gray   No Name Jive  
Gene Krupa  What's This?  
Lionel Hampton  Haven't Named It Yet  
Cats & The Fiddle  Gangbusters  
Louis Armstrong  Hep Cat Blues  
Louis Jordan  At The Swing Cats Ball  
Big Joe Turner  Blues In The Night  
Loumell Morgan  Blues In The Night  
Nat King Cole  I Like To Riff  
Rex Stewart  Rexatious  
King Perry  Star Dust  
Timmy Rogers  Daddy-O  
Trixie Smith  Jack, I'm Mellow  
Aristo-Kats   Jack, You're Dead  
Delta Rhythm Boys  Playing The Game  
Jack Mcveigh  Open The Door, Richard  
Will Bradley & Ray Mckinley   All That Meat & No Potatoes  
Mabel Scott  Bippity Bebop Pony  
Louis Jordan  Don't Worry About That Mule  

Comment:


These are all swinging jivey cool boppin hep tunes form the 1940's. Live for the moment & seize the day -- even if that moment & that day are way back in long gone days & these jive hipsters are now all jive ghosts. All the more reason, as Julia Lee sings, to snatch and grab it!

There's a little history lesson here, too: I was flabbergasted when I first heard this Wingy Manone song, "Stop the War" - I hadn't thought there was any antiwar sentiment in the USA in the forties - then looking a little closer it turns out that song was released in March 1941, when most Americans were still hoping to stay out of the war. That all changed 9 months later, but who knew that then? Hard to remember sometimes when you're time traveling that our past was their future, & not yet written. Anyway, "Stop the War" probably didn't get much airplay back in the 40's, but it's a lively hopeful great song for today.

As Irene Day sings it, how about that mess?
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Mark Petruccelli
Date: 3/25/2008
Ahhh, vintage JDV. Would love to hear this.
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anthony lombardi
Date: 3/25/2008
you never fail to both enlighten & compel, jeff
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mahdishain
Date: 3/25/2008
don't know a lot here but with cab and the louises i can get the feel of it and it feels great.
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sammyg123
Date: 3/25/2008
Swinging Cats and Bebop Ponys. Another Joey de Vivre classic , then!
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Mixxer
Date: 3/25/2008
"All That Meat & No Potatoes" - now you're talking some jive.
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avocado rabbit
Date: 3/25/2008
Seems like such a cool era. Nice stuff.
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njr
Date: 3/25/2008
Where do you find all this amazing stuff, jdv? The Forties really rocked, with all the swing bands, wild dancing, and a sense of urgency. Without that, we wouldn't have gotten rock 'n' roll the way it is. Beat me, Daddy, eight to the bar!
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Rob Conroy
Date: 3/25/2008
This looks like a ton of super-cool fun. Really. I'd actually really like to hear this, so perhaps we can engineer an old-school sumptin' somethin'...
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gobi
Date: 3/25/2008
well there are some big names here that I recognise . . . . I bet it is a great listen . . . .
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Moe
Date: 3/26/2008
Always a pleasure to see your amazing mixes here. If art of the mix was around 67 years ago (along with the internet), I'm sure we'd be commenting on all your contemporary hip selections. Go daddy, go!
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hemizen
Date: 3/26/2008
a great one as usual jeff. Way to add to the art-of the mix
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sport !
Date: 3/26/2008
Another classic! I'd really like to hear this as well...
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buglady
Date: 3/26/2008
Oh Joey, this one really swings! I'd LOVE to hear this!!!
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G-Sphere
Date: 3/26/2008
Classic indeed!
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p the swede
Date: 3/27/2008
WOW
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Skipper Bartlett
Date: 3/28/2008
Yikes! Love that 40's jazz. Seems so far ahead of it's time.
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Texas Hobart
Date: 3/28/2008
"if you don't like,don't knock it"Thats a great song,man!
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lanhamyodel
Date: 4/3/2008
A great-looking mix, and I wish I could hear it. That's the stuff you gotta hear!
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doowad
Date: 4/11/2008
Big Joe Turner and the two Louis, hell, the whole mix is a real kick in the head, great job, Jeff!!!!