Hi, Mom and Dad in Heaven! Missing you more than usual today... So I am listening to songs and & watching dance made famous by some of your top favorites from the Swing Era that YOU experienced together, in New York City, in the 1940's... as you danced and lindy hopped and fell in love! My parents were part of "The Greatest Generation": born in the early 1920s, and died too soon in the early & mid 1990's. My Dad LOVED Benny Goodman & Sing, Sing, Sing! He played it for me in his car on cassette on memorable road trips. Mom loved Fred & Ginger, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, & Tommy Dorsey & Glenn Miller. Dad did , too, of course....and he especially loved the music of 'Ole Blue Eyes, The Chairman of The Board, Frank Sinatra.
I could watch this over and over and over again!!! Two of the greatest ballroom dancers of all time! One of the greatest jazz groups, featuring one of the greatest drummers, Gene Krupa!!!..Man this was style and class at it's best!!! What a swingin' scene!!!...I love it!!!...
Wonderful rare footage of the fantastically talented and hugely influential drummer Gene Krupa. Every drummer since owes him their appreciation for his accomplishments. Thanks for sharing! Michael Hanson
Fred and Ginger, always a pleasure to watch! This is some proper 'can't sit still in your seat' music, if you can listen to swing and not want to move you mustn't have a soul
The highest compliment that I can pay Sironaca is to say that I think Fred, Ginger, and Benny would have approved of this Number one fabulous video. Long may the three of them reign.
Benny Goodman, the "King of Swing," the man brave enough to bring "Tin Pan Alley"-jazz rhythm, swing, to mainstream America. Great to see internet videos documenting this significant turning point for modern music.
Just a wonderful display of incredible, raw talent. Not only in Fred & Ginger, but in the great musicianship of those 1st class musicians! What a joy....
I call bullshit on you. Did you even watch the video? How many times did Ginger Rogers dance backwards? IMO it's just an obnoxious trope used to belittle the talent of Fred Astaire
That is great footwork. This is what I wanted to do in the '60s when the rest of my age group were going with rock n roll. I was raised on the big band era with ballroom dance and swing.
Would have been even better if it had been on time with the music. It's easy to overlay a soundtrack, but hard to overlay the musical interpretation of the dancers.
Hard to say who is sicker here - Benny G. or Fringer. But these cats are all _mad as hatters!!_ 8^D It's really hard to imagine any kid today who loves music and dance - from pop to hip-hop - seeing this and not going completely _bonkers_ for it!! :^)
Young people, in any era, really get into swing music when they sit behind a music stand, instrument in hand, surrounded by 15-16 other talented young musicians, and actually play the notes. A life changing experience. Yes, I play bass and love to preform swing music.
Nice catch Glynnis...I was going to post the same thing until I read yours....Its from the movie Swing Kids, nice arrangement and a damn good soundtrack, but not the original
+Chris Ashton Yeah but women weren't as powerful as now, they were still expected to be just housewives. don't forget that part lol. and its 1935 so think about that, you have only like 4 years till WW2 starts.D: but other than that yeah that era was amazing ! :D
I agree this song is origional. it is the BEST. Unfortunately a lot of kids don't appreciate this kinda music and dancing nowadays. sad. but I'm only 16, and I'm trying to learn these moves, so yeah.
I agree with you completely, Dominic, I'm only 12, But I don't really like Rock, I like kind of happy, Jazzy music like this, It 's good that at least someone else appreciates it, Good for all of you, I encourage you to, (I'm doing Cornet / Trumpet right now, I suck but i'm getting there! )
Not sure there has ever been a couple that was more in sync with each other than Fred & Ginger! I'm out of breath just watching them!! AWESOME!!! Thanks for sharing!!! :-D
That was so freakin awesome! Thanks, to whoever put this video mix together, "brilliant"! I'm 61, so this was 20 years before my ass shoved up. I never missed a single movie presentation of Fred Astaire, especially Ginger Rogers. As a hormonally volatile teenager, I became jelly looking at her beautiful eyes, beautiful face, especially when she gave that ("don't mess with me Mr.") look on her face. She had that look of "I'm not within the grasp of mortal men" So don't make an idiot of yourself, wasting your time, and mine. I'm not interested!, You can't handle me! I'm "Aphrodite", for Pete's sake! Can't you see that? So get over it : ( She and Mr. Astaire didn't get along, as she mentioned in interviews several times. That look of animosity, or disdain, or boredom whatever it was, came through in her expressions in the movie. She was an angel to me, spectacularly beautiful. When they put those stage lights on her eyes, and that angel face, I was instantly smitten. When they put her in the right dress, that did it for me, cold shower time. There are a lot of amazing dancers in the world for sure, but these two together, were a cosmic combination, of discipline, athleticism, natural rhythm, style grace, class, and beauty. (Sing Sing Sing) (featuring the great (Gene Krupa, on drums) is one of my all time favorite pieces. It rocks! I strongly urge all young people to go to a concert with a large acoustic orchestra, of high quality ASAP, and experience the raw power, of the direct translation of human breath, and direct human motion. You will quickly see the vast difference between electronically enhanced music, and the power of acoustic perfection.
+george prentice There's nothing I like better than wild ass music, and teaching young children about styles and pieces they never understood or heard of. The people who lived a thousand or 70 years ago were no different than you and me, just different circumstances. They laughed and made love, and got high, and went to war, and suffered, and all the rest. It is so important to get little kid listening to this stuff when they are 2-3-4-5 years old, and dancing so they will never stop.This pieces has so much story behind it, related to Africa, the war,and perceptions of the dark continent, and dark thought of lust, and wildness, and so much more. a true masterpiece. Thanks for enjoying it with all of us.
+Peter Mullen Why didn't they get along? Was Astaire too much of a perfectionist? Did he push her too far? His genius was not just in the dance; he arranged it all.
+ron a. You'd have to ask her. I go by what she said in interviews 30 years ago. She's dead so thats going to be difficult. All I know is she made me take a cold shower every time I saw her beautiful eyes, and her magnificent dancing, which as she said, was the same as Fred Astaire except she did it in high heels, and backwards.
The 1940' and the dance crazed called "The Lindy Hop" was a dance that puts todays dancing in shame. The girls and women of that era had to be acrobatic, energetic and fit. That dance would tired most people out today. When Louis Prima created this song "Sing Sing Sing" and benny Goodman did his cover which is now the cover everyone uses like here in this clip. Little did anyone know that the song is played just as much today as it did back then. This is an awesome clip...Priceless!
Uno de mis sueños es poder bailar solo un poco este baile con un décimo del TALENTO y DON de FRED ... que ? bailo bien , soy delgado y ágil y amo bailar ... el que puede puede ...
@Selene - I've heard this before and it's a good point. I don't know if you mean it this way but it seems to suggest that perhaps she was the better dancer of the two. And the counter-argument to that would be that Astair danced with several partners and sometimes alone. And he always looked great. Who else did Rogers dance with? Nonetheless, your point is one worth making.
This dancing is amazing and may have been recorded in 1935, but the song is called "Sing, Sing, Sing" and was written by Louis Prima in 1936, so the date is somewhat incorrect.
LOL you're not wrong! How sweet it is!!! (Geeez, nobody else is going to make those "palazzo pants" look so good..you can buy them at Kohls...good luck!! LOL)
I had a compilation disc we did for my mon when she passed away and one of the songs on it was "Cause I Don't Know Enough About You." I didn't find out who it was until I looked up her name. What a babe and she could dance like a starlet too! And man that voice, Whispery, foggy, sensual., One of the best finds I made all year.
Fred Astaire is an amazing dancer, I believe if he had grown up in this generation that he would have been able to do hip hop dances with the greatest of ease, he was just that gifted of a dancer.
How is it mislabeled, the title doesn't suggest Benny Goodman wrote the song. The title states that this song is being played by Benny Goodman... which it is.
The swing era was before my time, but I just love it!
Love Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger's dancing; even as a child growing up watching their movies. Gone are those wonderful days of yours.
Carmen Rojo But they had such class doing it!!!
Hi, Mom and Dad in Heaven! Missing you more than usual today... So I am listening to songs and & watching dance made famous by some of your top favorites from the Swing Era that YOU experienced together, in New York City, in the 1940's... as you danced and lindy hopped and fell in love! My parents were part of "The Greatest Generation": born in the early 1920s, and died too soon in the early & mid 1990's. My Dad LOVED Benny Goodman & Sing, Sing, Sing! He played it for me in his car on cassette on memorable road trips. Mom loved Fred & Ginger, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, & Tommy Dorsey & Glenn Miller. Dad did , too, of course....and he especially loved the music of 'Ole Blue Eyes, The Chairman of The Board, Frank Sinatra.
lizzabbott Music does take us back in time and arouses those precious memories.
With a life like that I don't doubt they had a good Time
Some of my grandparent's music was totally badass. I have no idea how to dance to it but it hard to sit still.
Never before and never since has ANYthing been more Cool!
If you aren't movin' right now, neither is your heart!
I could watch this over and over and over again!!! Two of the greatest ballroom dancers of all time! One of the greatest jazz groups, featuring one of the greatest drummers, Gene Krupa!!!..Man this was style and class at it's best!!! What a swingin' scene!!!...I love it!!!...
Wonderful rare footage of the fantastically talented and hugely influential drummer Gene Krupa. Every drummer since owes him their appreciation for his accomplishments. Thanks for sharing!
Michael Hanson
Class and style, style and class! Something we do NOT have much of these days!! And I'm only 57 years of age!!!
This band sounds terrific and the drummer is just "killin" it with great time, feel and drum sound. Bravo drums, bravo band!
Man..Listen to those horns..Great!
Out of this world with talent,,all of it! Goodman etc, the dancing, Nothing approaches this today
best dancers no one like them in all the time, belive it or not they were the best.
Now I've seen the sunrise! Fred and Ginger dancing to Benny Goodman!
Kirsten I. Russell
Kirsten quote I. Russell
I believe some of those clips feature Eleanor Powell, the only woman who could out-dance Fred himself.
I'm sitting here and my feet are going a mile a minute. Great performance by Fred and Ginger - the greatest.
Benny Goodman band not too shabby either ;)
Julius Spohn A mile a minute is only 60 mph.
First time I saw this video. It has blown me away. What dancers!
Fred and Ginger, always a pleasure to watch! This is some proper 'can't sit still in your seat' music, if you can listen to swing and not want to move you mustn't have a soul
Great music and dancing. Never been better.
This is dancing ! Fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
They had class back then!!!!! Period!!!!!
They sure did have class today dancing is about sex back then it was about talent! Such a big difference
+Trudy DiMattia the whole period back then was about sex too
+Robert Milton Key word, CLASS !
+Daniel Vena I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU, SIR!!!! THEY DID IN DEED!!!!
Yes! Absolutely classy!
AWESOME....Thanks for this brilliant share....the music plus the super dancers....Fred and Ginger ....!!!!
I couldn't take my eyes away, that dancing looks so happy
Fred and Ginger, pure class....no other like them, ever!!!!
throw in Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly too!
Fred and Eleanor Powell!!
The swing classic of all time - and the two best ballroom dancers performing it. What's not to like!
Man.....What a song! The dancing is one thing. But dig that beat. 1935!!!!! Wow! A classic! If you are not taping your foot....you must be dead.
The highest compliment that I can pay Sironaca is to say that I think Fred, Ginger, and Benny would have approved of this Number one fabulous video. Long may the three of them reign.
So Awesome!! Nothing like it today. This is a lost art.
Very, Very clever. A fitting tribute to Benny, Fred and Ginger
Now that was dancing! Just like the old movies! Today's dancing can't compare! Thanks for sharing!!
dancing with the stars couldnt even by a ticket to see and watch this performance!!!
Benny Goodman, the "King of Swing," the man brave enough to bring "Tin Pan Alley"-jazz rhythm, swing, to mainstream America.
Great to see internet videos documenting this significant turning point for modern music.
Great piece of music. Fantastic edits of Ginger and Fred who make it look oh-so-easy and graceful.
Dave Oz al bowlley
Dave Oz
They didn't edit it, they could really dance like that.
hmmmm.... how long do you suppose they practiced?? i would LOVE to see the bloopers on THIS LOL
Dave Oz Fred Astair, the lady Lucy Ball?
I om not sure, good old day. Remember always, thankyou
Just a wonderful display of incredible, raw talent. Not only in Fred & Ginger, but in the great musicianship of those 1st class musicians! What a joy....
The best piece of dance music ever written!
never seen anyone apart from Fred who can carry off a top hat and tails bettet than him . its like he was born wearing one . so smart.
well maybe Gene Kelly
Fred and Ginger.... live long and prosper in our hearts!
What a fantastic piece of fusing together of swing and dance.
What a fantastic match of Benny Goodman and Fred and Ginger this person has done. Take a really deep bow, you deserve it.
One word "Fantastic"
Wow. That famous "backwards and in high heels" quote about Ginger Rogers is totally true!
I call bullshit on you. Did you even watch the video? How many times did Ginger Rogers dance backwards? IMO it's just an obnoxious trope used to belittle the talent of Fred Astaire
Superbes danses sans parler de l'accompagnement: sublime!!!!!!!
That is great footwork. This is what I wanted to do in the '60s when the rest of my age group were going with rock n roll. I was raised on the big band era with ballroom dance and swing.
This is music!
artie shaw summit ridge drive
That's ENTERTAINMENT
Yes, hugely entertaining music, or musical entertainment.
MAGNIFICENT!!!
Even in dancing, women doing it in heels had the hardest job! Way to go ladies!!!
Fantastic dancing and drums too!
Great editing of two dance masters.
Would have been even better if it had been on time with the music. It's easy to overlay a soundtrack, but hard to overlay the musical interpretation of the dancers.
I love this song :) :)
this is my favourite song EVER
This was the song that was popular the year I was born. I love this.
Hard to say who is sicker here - Benny G. or Fringer. But these cats are all _mad as hatters!!_ 8^D It's really hard to imagine any kid today who loves music and dance - from pop to hip-hop - seeing this and not going completely _bonkers_ for it!! :^)
+Grymmorgan i know i had that same thought!
Grymmorgan Not hard to say at all. Gene Krupa is ridiculously sick.
Young people, in any era, really get into swing music when they sit behind a music stand, instrument in hand, surrounded by 15-16 other talented young musicians, and actually play the notes. A life changing experience. Yes, I play bass and love to preform swing music.
bloody brilliant piece of editing
This is watching," Dancing with The Stars" ,,,,
This is amazing and it is pop, meaning millions and millions watched and listened and loved this. I am SO living in the wrong time.
wonderful !
Gene Kruppa, greatest drummer there ever was or ever will be
kenneth risner That's Krupa, you shenanagin, but I agree with your sentiment.
lol fair enough mr brown
Not Krupa, not Goodman. It's a James Horner arrangement for a movie soundtrack.
AGREE
Nice catch Glynnis...I was going to post the same thing until I read yours....Its from the movie Swing Kids, nice arrangement and a damn good soundtrack, but not the original
Not about tricks - not about perfection - about freedom and fun and connection!
Asombroso beny, jean gruppa, no me canso de oírlo y verlos bailar espectacular
Man I wish I could be alive during these times. People had so much class black then compared to people today.
+Chris Ashton I know thah feel bro'
I've always felt like I'm in the wrong generation
Kari Aguilera Yeah. I'd gladly give up my technology to go back to the good ol days.
+Chris Ashton Yeah but women weren't as powerful as now, they were still expected to be just housewives. don't forget that part lol. and its 1935 so think about that, you have only like 4 years till WW2 starts.D: but other than that yeah that era was amazing ! :D
+Kevin Gonzales I wouldn't mind being a housewife (:
but yeah, I forgot about the war :/
Kevin Gonzales Hell I would treat my wife with the same amount of love and respect as I do now.
Back when people had class and talent
Absolutely awsome ...Thank You .. John Rapp
My second favorite swing band song behind "Well Git It" by Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra!! Go daddyo!!!
That made me really happy!
I agree this song is origional. it is the BEST. Unfortunately a lot of kids don't appreciate this kinda music and dancing nowadays. sad. but I'm only 16, and I'm trying to learn these moves, so yeah.
Danza Kuduro i'm 16 aswell and i love this kinda music, eventhough its so hard to play
Danza, these music will live on for over 100 years from now as they did in 1940's
Good to hear it
Let's make sure that these musics last
I agree with you completely, Dominic, I'm only 12, But I don't really like Rock, I like kind of happy, Jazzy music like this, It 's good that at least someone else appreciates it, Good for all of you, I encourage you to, (I'm doing Cornet / Trumpet right now, I suck but i'm getting there! )
un sommet jamais dépassé...et même jamais plus atteint....quelle époque !!!
Not sure there has ever been a couple that was more in sync with each other than Fred & Ginger! I'm out of breath just watching them!! AWESOME!!! Thanks for sharing!!! :-D
The best. Sublime.
DWTS Eat your heart out, now that's dancing !
Came for the song that thrust drums into mainstream and stayed for the steps that I will never be able to reproduce. Great edit, thx.
FANTASTICO!!!!! Sia chi suona che chi danza.
That was so freakin awesome! Thanks, to whoever put this video mix together, "brilliant"! I'm 61, so this was 20 years before my ass shoved up. I never missed a single movie presentation of Fred Astaire, especially Ginger Rogers. As a hormonally volatile teenager, I became jelly looking at her beautiful eyes, beautiful face, especially when she gave that ("don't mess with me Mr.") look on her face. She had that look of "I'm not within the grasp of mortal men" So don't make an idiot of yourself, wasting your time, and mine. I'm not interested!, You can't handle me! I'm "Aphrodite", for Pete's sake! Can't you see that? So get over it : (
She and Mr. Astaire didn't get along, as she mentioned in interviews several times. That look of animosity, or disdain, or boredom whatever it was, came through in her expressions in the movie. She was an angel to me, spectacularly beautiful. When they put those stage lights on her eyes, and that angel face, I was instantly smitten. When they put her in the right dress, that did it for me, cold shower time. There are a lot of amazing dancers in the world for sure, but these two together, were a cosmic combination, of discipline, athleticism, natural rhythm, style grace, class, and beauty. (Sing Sing Sing) (featuring the great (Gene Krupa, on drums) is one of my all time favorite pieces. It rocks! I strongly urge all young people to go to a concert with a large acoustic orchestra, of high quality ASAP, and experience the raw power, of the direct translation of human breath, and direct human motion. You will quickly see the vast difference between electronically enhanced music, and the power of acoustic perfection.
what an excellent write up!
+george prentice
There's nothing I like better than wild ass music, and teaching young children about styles and pieces they never understood or heard of. The people who lived a thousand or 70 years ago were no different than you and me, just different circumstances. They laughed and made love, and got high, and went to war, and suffered, and all the rest. It is so important to get little kid listening to this stuff when they are 2-3-4-5 years old, and dancing so they will never stop.This pieces has so much story behind it, related to Africa, the war,and perceptions of the dark continent, and dark thought of lust, and wildness, and so much more. a true masterpiece. Thanks for enjoying it with all of us.
+Peter Mullen Why didn't they get along? Was Astaire too much of a perfectionist? Did he push her too far? His genius was not just in the dance; he arranged it all.
+ron a. You'd have to ask her. I go by what she said in interviews 30 years ago. She's dead so thats going to be difficult. All I know is she made me take a cold shower every time I saw her beautiful eyes, and her magnificent dancing, which as she said, was the same as Fred Astaire except she did it in high heels, and backwards.
so, you liked her a bit?
OK Girls.. who wouldn't just love take take a dance with Fred?
It's been said that Ginger was not a great dancer. However, she was possibly the greatest dance partner ever! Love these two together.
The 1940' and the dance crazed called "The Lindy Hop" was a dance that puts todays dancing in shame. The girls and women of that era had to be acrobatic, energetic and fit. That dance would tired most people out today. When Louis Prima created this song "Sing Sing Sing" and benny Goodman did his cover which is now the cover everyone uses like here in this clip. Little did anyone know that the song is played just as much today as it did back then. This is an awesome clip...Priceless!
I love your compilation! Thanks!
Uno de mis sueños es poder bailar solo un poco este baile con un décimo del TALENTO y DON de FRED ... que ? bailo bien , soy delgado y ágil y amo bailar ... el que puede puede ...
Mr. Milton. I agree with you 110 percent. CLASS and awesomeness !!!!!!!!!
Simply FANTASTIC, AMAZING!!!!!!!!!
Period!!!
WOW I LOVE FRED ASTAIRE ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♡❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Way better then these mumbling rappers these days
Way better music then the music now
Dancers with class & talent and Benny Goodmann...
Fantastic era...!
God my feet hurt just watching this lady dance in those shoes
These two are just another reason why Dancing with the "Stars" is a total joke!
kkkkk
this looks pretty dumb too though so..
Fred and Ginger?? You're nuts, Fred worote the book and Ginger kept up with every step all while dancing in heels and backwards. Wake up!
I was fully awake and aware of my intentions when I wrote that comment
Oh, too bad. That's genuine talent despite how old the movie is. Oh well.
Women do it with class. Ginger Rogers had to dance the steps in reverse and in heels.
most of the time she was doing what he was and often both had heels or she'd be as tall as him.
Selene du Ciel 古早味小吃。
That is how real women learned and dance. We need NO posts from ignorant feminists.
@Selene - I've heard this before and it's a good point. I don't know if you mean it this way but it seems to suggest that perhaps she was the better dancer of the two. And the counter-argument to that would be that Astair danced with several partners and sometimes alone. And he always looked great. Who else did Rogers dance with? Nonetheless, your point is one worth making.
@@DandyLion662a remember, Fred once danced with a hat rack.
If ever a man were born to dance, he here is; really. He defines American dance.
FANTASTIC MASHUP!!!!!!
This dancing is amazing and may have been recorded in 1935, but the song is called "Sing, Sing, Sing" and was written by Louis Prima in 1936, so the date is somewhat incorrect.
Source I read say it was recorded by Benny Goodman in 1937, with some other band doing it before then.
Just remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did only backwards and in high heels :0)
Yes. Because she had a man to lead her!
Ginger is good...but I think Elinor Powell was the best of the best.
REALLY??? And you can do what Fred does, right? Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Jim Porter Or Fred did everything Ginger did only backwards with no heels, yes because he had a woman to lead him!!
LOL you're not wrong! How sweet it is!!! (Geeez, nobody else is going to make those "palazzo pants" look so good..you can buy them at Kohls...good luck!! LOL)
Listen to the Benny Goodman Band play this live at Carnegie Hall in 1938 - Sensational
I had a compilation disc we did for my mon when she passed away and one of the songs on it was "Cause I Don't Know Enough About You." I didn't find out who it was until I looked up her name. What a babe and she could dance like a starlet too! And man that voice, Whispery, foggy, sensual., One of the best finds I made all year.
Fred Astaire is an amazing dancer, I believe if he had grown up in this generation that he would have been able to do hip hop dances with the greatest of ease, he was just that gifted of a dancer.
Jajajaja -- THE CHICAGO STYLE !!
VIVA MI JAZZ !!
My Grandmother was born in 1915 and my Grandmother loved to dance. My Grandmother passed away at the age of 84 in 1999 and I was 12.
Backwards and in heels!!! Times up!!! 😍😍😍
*sigh* I was born a lil late...
I was born in 2001. I should've been born in 1910. It sucks!
you wouldn't have liked the dentistry!
They were among the best, but not 'the best'😑
Me to
Fred and Ginger
no eran una pareja, eran uno solo...espectacular¡¡
Brilliant, just watching for the first time, wow!
Makes me want to cut a rug.
makes me want to cut a line
Mislabeled. This is 'Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing) written by Louis Prima and performed by The BBC Big Band.
How is it mislabeled, the title doesn't suggest Benny Goodman wrote the song. The title states that this song is being played by Benny Goodman... which it is.
era of excellence
Both the performance and the dancing are extremely sophisticated.