He was a great musician. So much fun to hear and watch him. He was in love with his music. LuckyLuca99 has a great Swanee video, also. Luca is the next great Boogie star, I think.
This remarkable fellow plays as the happiest Man in the world... The teeth has no any meaning in this case... More important of all are his remarkable smile and his remarkable hands... He is a Great Musician...
this is t\stil the best pice off music that i ever have hearing in my i live afther 20 or more years stil goose bumps on my arms from i have it it all hearing 1000 times i have a orginele LP from it olso Superrrrrrrrrrr
Albert Ammons forever! He played so easily! Unforgetable! His "swanee river boogie" now is a standard in the repertory of all boogie piano player! Justin Bieber???? Should I know him! I don't think so!!!!"
@jfsa380 Hallo,thanks for your comment re mine on Swanee River boogie. Not sure what you mean by a memo. But l have seen this happen before,where video clips don't match the soundtrack. There is one of Meade Lux Lewis where what we see and what he's actually playing are different. Perhaps the piece was from a recording which was never filmed and the provider was just showing the artist in one that was as a means to an end. Either way...damned good stuff l reckon !
The two alternate takes are on the cd Albert ammons 1936-1946 -alternate takes, radio performances unissued recordings on the Document label DOCD-1008. The released version is on lots of ammons cds
For a film where Albert Ammons' playing matches the film, search for 'Boogie Woogie Dream.' You'll also find another boogie king, Pete Johnson and an introduction by Lena Horne.
Hoss Allen was great friend of mine. He was had a tremendous influence on popular misuc. Didn't know this was his theme song. I am going to go learn it now!!!!!
As a kid back in the 50's, I heard Swanee River Boogie as the opening tune on Randy's Record Shop ,a rhythm and blues program heard at 11PM on WLAC-AM, Nashville , Tn, which had a special 50,000 watt "skywave" signal, broadcasting only at night. ( It was a low power station AM in daytime hours. ) Randys sold records over the air. A similar WLAC program that played earlier at 10PM was Ernies Record Shop, also a Rhythm and Blues format, with the very popular John Richbourg,as the featured DJ. WLAC -AM at night had a huge coverage area, ranging from east Texas up to Michigan and down to the Caribeann. Ernies also had an opening instrumental featuring a piano theme. Can anybody name that tune and the artist(s)?
Don't know the song, but I was listening to the same stations back then in North Carolina. Played a lot of what was called "race records" which where I lived was a big no no so we did it on the sly.
The film is 'Boogie Woogie Dream'. Pete Johnson has been cut out. The soundtrack replaced with Ammons Swanne River Boogie. However it's always great to hear Albert, pity there was not much film though. Chas. (Mr Boogie Woogie) Hall
I listened to WLAC nearly every weekday night from 1955 until 1957, and Swannee River Boogie by Albert Ammons was the theme song every night for the Randy Record Shop show at 10:15pm until 11pm Central time. This DJ for this show was Gene Nobles, NOT Hoss Allen. Hoss Allen was the host for Dance Hour, which ran from 11pm to midnight. I cannot remember any specific theme song for this show. Don Martin
how the time has changed from this music to rap,rock, and heavy metal. i say there is bearly any music that compares with this classics besides: ragtime, dixie, foxtrot, western, and folk
The sound really is "Swanee River Boogie" (second take, as far as I know), but the movie is "Boogie Woogie Dream". Actually two completely different things...
You're correct of course,this isn't Swanee River Boogie.It is in fact Boogie Woogie Dream.If you look to Albert Ammons right you can just see another player with him. This is Pete Johnson. Check the full piece from the lists opposite,,it matches exactly. As far as I'm aware there is no actual film of Ammons playing Swanee,so this was just used to give an impression,as it were.
This the video from Boogie Woogie Dream-Albert Ammons & Pete Johnson. This piece is not being played anywhere near the speed of the piece from the video. It's just a relaxed version of Swanee River Boogie, well done too...
I might have met you in Brugge, Belgium when I played with King Ernest. Love this version.. Carl "Sonny" Leland and I play together sometimes. Johnny Morgan
#Jazz Mer. 8022 Albert Ammons - Swanee River Boogie / I Don't Want To See You Gene Ammons (tenor saxophone -2) Albert Ammons (piano) Ike Perkins (guitar) Israel Crosby (bass) Jack Cooley (drums -1, drums, vocals -2) Chicago, IL, July 2, 1946 1. 430-1 Swanee River Boogie 2. 432-3 I Don't Want To See You (If You Can't See You By Myself)
they play it it in right tempo ,sometime others when they play it ,they are in a hurry to let to see how fast they can play, you must bound the notes together to a nice play and albert ammons was a master in it .
c'mon boys (or girls) - be reasonable. if you look at the few words describing this you'll see that its the released version of Swanee river boogie and two alternate takes for boogie woogie enthusiasts with Ammons cut in from Boogie Woogie Dream to make it slightly more interesting and annoy Pete Johnson fans
@jfsa380 If you look behind Albert you can just see another piano player. This is Pete Johnson. They got together to play a well known piece of theirs called Boogey Woogey Dream. You'll see the film clip almost opposite in the listings and it matches perfectly. Speaking of which, the introduction by the woman is nothing short of downright patronising and a sad reflection of the times.
does anybody know if jerry lee lewis did a version of it? i have heard a version in the concert with fats domino ray charles and jerry lee but i dont know whos playing the piano. can someone help me?
You are kidding of course Ha Ha. Albert ammons only preceded hugh Laurie by about 50 years. Albert ammons did not need to steal anything since he invented it all.
@comradethird whats wrong with that if people like it? people want it, and thats why it gets big. i absolutly love havy metal band metallica, i also love blues, boogie woogie, classic piano pieces, and heavy metal actually got me to start play piano. how time has changed to this kind of music from a little african baning on a drum, ore the time when there was only small fluets, drums, and maybe a lute. piano is a young insrument, only aboyt 400 years, music is thousand of years old. time change
Where on earth did you find this Film Clip .????? Fantastic -I didn't even think they had any Recordings on Film back then 30's and 40's wow excellent -thank you for posting this ..Cheers From Canada
You bloody nutter, these two guys were the GREATEST boogie players who ever lived EVERYBODY copied them.Try keeping that left hand going as smooth as they do and play with your right..You have to be very SPECIAL.
What a gifted artist! very hard to find another one like Albert Ammons.
Try Luca Sestak.
Albert Ammons forever! He played so easily! Unforgetable!
A great pianist playing Swanee River Boogie . It makes you want to get up and Boogie.Simply great. Thanks for sharing.
He was a great musician. So much fun to hear and watch him. He was in love with his music. LuckyLuca99 has a great Swanee video, also. Luca is the next great Boogie star, I think.
This version of Swanee River will be living in my head till the end of my life. Simply the best-Albert Ammons. Thx!
Thats by me the same til my end off my live amazing piano player
same by me for ever this song in my head
I hate when people talk about the people who press dislike ... but honestly how can you not like this?!?!?!?!
happiest music ever!!!
This remarkable fellow plays as the happiest Man in the world...
The teeth has no any meaning in this case...
More important of all are his remarkable smile and his remarkable hands...
He is a Great Musician...
There is so much expressiveness in his piano playing!
yeah swanee river is indeed a great song of Albert Ammons. I wish he was still alive :(
What an entertainer! Fantastic!
I love Albert Ammons ! The clip shows him playing another song, by the way.
This guy is amazing.
What a great pianist! And the expression's just show's he loves what he's doing Albert 👍🎹
this is t\stil the best pice off music that i ever have hearing in my i live afther 20 or more years stil goose bumps on my arms from i have it it all hearing 1000 times i have a orginele LP from it olso Superrrrrrrrrrr
His smiley face is sooo funny ! What a joy ! His eyes are like " ooh i saw this beautiful lady, oohh, what a beauty !"...
what can you say this guy leaves you BREATHLESS.go BABY go
I LOVE THE MUSIC
Beautiful thank you 🎹🎹🎹🎹💚💙💙💙
Albert Ammons forever! He played so easily! Unforgetable! His "swanee river boogie" now is a standard in the repertory of all boogie piano player! Justin Bieber???? Should I know him! I don't think so!!!!"
I'm not sure if I can understand how one cannot "feel" it! Mmmmm. Love this stuff! Better than coffee for a wake up!
@jfsa380 Hallo,thanks for your comment re mine on Swanee River boogie. Not sure what you mean by a memo. But l have seen this happen before,where video clips don't match the soundtrack. There is one of Meade Lux Lewis where what we see and what he's actually playing are different. Perhaps the piece was from a recording which was never filmed and the provider was just showing the artist in one that was as a means to an end. Either way...damned good stuff l reckon !
Just to staighten all the confusion...This is video of Boogie Woogie Dream by Albert Ammons(left) and Pete Johnson(right)
True Great Music,, Loved it, &there is So Much More Out There to Listen too
Beautiful, fantastic music.
They don't write it like this anymore!
whooo great piano-playing
The two alternate takes are on the cd Albert ammons 1936-1946 -alternate takes, radio performances unissued recordings on the Document label DOCD-1008. The released version is on lots of ammons cds
He looks so happy >
and im loving it :d
He's outstanding and looks like it's so easy for him. Most Boogie players don't look so relaxed.
For a film where Albert Ammons' playing matches the film, search for 'Boogie Woogie Dream.' You'll also find another boogie king, Pete Johnson and an introduction by Lena Horne.
Hoss Allen was great friend of mine. He was had a tremendous influence on popular misuc. Didn't know this was his theme song. I am going to go learn it now!!!!!
That is unbelievably cool. I can't imagine such a thing is possible nowadays.
still a amzing pice off music i have this all 1000 times stil getting goose bumps , when you look to the music off this time brrrrrr
same by me every time that i it hear every day
As a kid back in the 50's, I heard Swanee River Boogie as the opening tune on Randy's Record Shop ,a rhythm and blues program heard at 11PM on WLAC-AM, Nashville , Tn, which had a special 50,000 watt "skywave" signal, broadcasting only at night. ( It was a low power station AM in daytime hours. ) Randys sold records over the air. A similar WLAC program that played earlier at 10PM was Ernies Record Shop, also a Rhythm and Blues format, with the very popular John Richbourg,as the featured DJ. WLAC -AM at night had a huge coverage area, ranging from east Texas up to Michigan and down to the Caribeann. Ernies also had an opening instrumental featuring a piano theme. Can anybody name that tune and the artist(s)?
Don't know the song, but I was listening to the same stations back then in North Carolina. Played a lot of what was called "race records" which where I lived was a big no no so we did it on the sly.
Yes sort of but random isn't the word because I think the video lifted from Boogie Woogie Dream was the only time Albert Ammons was ever on film.
The film is 'Boogie Woogie Dream'. Pete Johnson has been cut out. The soundtrack replaced with Ammons Swanne River Boogie. However it's always great to hear Albert, pity there was not much film though.
Chas. (Mr Boogie Woogie) Hall
Love this kind of music
I listened to WLAC nearly every weekday night from 1955 until 1957, and Swannee River Boogie by Albert Ammons was the theme song every night for the Randy Record Shop show at 10:15pm until 11pm Central time. This DJ for this show was Gene Nobles, NOT Hoss Allen. Hoss Allen was the host for Dance Hour, which ran from 11pm to midnight. I cannot remember any specific theme song for this show.
Don Martin
@aristopus What a great talent! Imagine going for a job in a night club or lounge somewhere locally and out pouring this energy.
What talent! Gets your feet to movin!!
this dude cracks me up. Awesome player too.
this video is original albert ammons and pete johnson playing boogie woogie dream ftom 1944
But the audio we hear is from a different recording.
Boogie Woogie Dream -Albert Ammons & Pete Johnson is the REAL Tune they are playing
how the time has changed from this music to rap,rock, and heavy metal. i say there is bearly any music that compares with this classics besides: ragtime, dixie, foxtrot, western, and folk
i adore his facial expressions
Great pianist! Great work!
The video track is not actually the recording of the SWANEE RIVER BOOGIE, only the audio track is.
The sound really is "Swanee River Boogie" (second take, as far as I know), but the movie is "Boogie Woogie Dream". Actually two completely different things...
Fantastic really, it's the first time I see this. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, you hit the nail on the head!!
man is der gut!!
er is nich nur einfach absolut entspannt sondern er hat auch so nen geilen beat drauf!!
einfach gut!
It is not the original audio. The music doesnt match with he is actually playing
You're correct of course,this isn't Swanee River Boogie.It is in fact Boogie Woogie Dream.If you look to Albert Ammons right you can just see another player with him. This is Pete Johnson. Check the full piece from the lists opposite,,it matches exactly. As far as I'm aware there is no actual film of Ammons playing Swanee,so this was just used to give an impression,as it were.
А ты. Можешь сыграть как он на зубах?
yeap, taht's is correct
It does mention under Subscription that it's not the original video, but this video and song is both Albert Ammons
This the video from Boogie Woogie Dream-Albert Ammons & Pete Johnson.
This piece is not being played anywhere near the speed of the piece from the video.
It's just a relaxed version of Swanee River Boogie, well done too...
The BEST ONE. Thx a lot...
" ... that man can play .... "
MASTERPIECE...just keep quiet and listen...Perfect...Continue to send this kind of gift..;Thanks...
I might have met you in Brugge, Belgium when I played with King Ernest. Love this version.. Carl "Sonny" Leland and I play together sometimes.
Johnny Morgan
Love how Hugh Laurie is trying to revive this awesome music
This is boogie as it should be played by a couple of masters of the art.
This Cat could forever more rock that piano!
This sounds pretty cool from where I'm sitting - can't figure out the sour grapes, but some folk would grizzle if their arse was on fire.
#Jazz Mer. 8022 Albert Ammons - Swanee River Boogie / I Don't Want To See You
Gene Ammons (tenor saxophone -2) Albert Ammons (piano) Ike Perkins (guitar) Israel Crosby (bass) Jack Cooley (drums -1, drums, vocals -2)
Chicago, IL, July 2, 1946
1. 430-1 Swanee River Boogie
2. 432-3 I Don't Want To See You (If You Can't See You By Myself)
Ammons was the best!
Greatest of boogie woogie.
wow davvero fantastico...bella musica...!!!
Marvellous. But now, let s hope, that Martin Schmidt-Hahn on clarinet and sax is able, to help, to keep this wonderful kind of music alive
they play it it in right tempo ,sometime others when they play it ,they are in a hurry to let to see how fast they can play, you must bound the notes together to a nice play and albert ammons was a master in it .
Two masters of this song are Albert Amons / Fats Domino.
not forgetting Jimmy Elledge with Swannee River Rocket on the flipside of Funny How Time Slips Away
Beautiful just beautiful. Even his teeth.
When that first piano player smiles, his teeth look like piano keys. Or is that just me?
shut up it's better...
HEY no one start swearing
To understand the piano, first you must be the piano
Hahhahaah... it is but this man storms the keys... Rip Ammons, boogie in heaven
thecrazypianist
U stupid or what? This guy is just asking, he doesn't hate him, probably got that stupid brain of urs from ur parents
i have still at home a original record from Albert Ammons
Swanee River Boogie inspired Antoine Domino Jr. To start his Career alas Fats Domino who sadly passed away at the age of 89☹️
Great, great. Yes really hot rockin' music!
c'mon boys (or girls) - be reasonable. if you look at the few words describing this you'll see that its the released version of Swanee river boogie and two alternate takes for boogie woogie enthusiasts with Ammons cut in from Boogie Woogie Dream to make it slightly more interesting and annoy Pete Johnson fans
GENIAL, QUE DU BONHEUR.
Genial!!!
Three super versions.. But, I still give a salute to young LuckyLuca99 version on You Tube. That one is my favourite.
Thank you, added to a playlist...
the real boogie woogie from pianist Legend
Albert Ammons was one of the Best Piano Players of all time. this song was not known
Arek Cep - This left hand boogie style goes back to the 1880s.
Giving my age away - but this was hot when I was in High school. That one was piano solo. I think this one was done with the "Rythm Kings"
All of them are playing together, its from" Fats With Friends", N.O., I think 1985.
@crankbv1 the memo was that the music director chose this song, not another, but the film director didn't get it
@scooterpiepiano there is a video of that on here. on a show with lena horne...
@jfsa380 If you look behind Albert you can just see another piano player. This is Pete Johnson. They got together to play a well known piece of theirs called Boogey Woogey Dream. You'll see the film clip almost opposite in the listings and it matches perfectly. Speaking of which, the introduction by the woman is nothing short of downright patronising and a sad reflection of the times.
thank you Stephen Foster!
does anybody know if jerry lee lewis did a version of it? i have heard a version in the concert with fats domino ray charles and jerry lee but i dont know whos playing the piano. can someone help me?
You are kidding of course Ha Ha. Albert ammons only preceded hugh Laurie by about 50 years. Albert ammons did not need to steal anything since he invented it all.
He was amaaazing
@aristopus its not fats waller. waller didnt play boogie woogie but stride piano
rip Pete and Albert
あは、凄い、こんな、演奏が聴けるなんて、幸せです。
@comradethird whats wrong with that if people like it? people want it, and thats why it gets big. i absolutly love havy metal band metallica, i also love blues, boogie woogie, classic piano pieces, and heavy metal actually got me to start play piano. how time has changed to this kind of music from a little african baning on a drum, ore the time when there was only small fluets, drums, and maybe a lute. piano is a young insrument, only aboyt 400 years, music is thousand of years old. time change
What a pity the film is not of someone playing Swanny river boogie.
I don't know the song or the person, but this needs remastering.
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@kralyk311 i think its a kind of guitar
Where on earth did you find this Film Clip .????? Fantastic -I didn't even think they had any Recordings on Film back then 30's and 40's wow excellent -thank you for posting this ..Cheers From Canada
Also listen to his 'Chicago on my Mind'!
this is incredable just leave it at that
Fantastic!!!!
You bloody nutter, these two guys were the GREATEST boogie players who ever lived EVERYBODY copied them.Try keeping that left hand going as smooth as they do and play with your right..You have to be very SPECIAL.
Avec mes remerciements, Raymond