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| L-O-V-E (first dance song) | Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen | Sing Sing Sing (in front of 2000 people) |
| Flying Home | Battle Royal (against the White Heat Swing Orchestra) | In The Mood |
| Well Get It | Stuff Like That There | Keep Punchin' (The Big Apple dance) |
| Route 66 | Mack The Knife | At Last |
LIVE AUDIO RECORDINGS Both above and below are audio taken from a live recording of the band playing at a wedding reception at the Barn at Gibbet Hill in Groton, Mass. on September 16, 2007. The audio is live to digital 2-track with no mixing, EQ, or any other form of editing or processing. In other words, we just put a microphone in front of the band and pressed the record button, so what you hear is exactly what it would sound like if you were standing right there. Don't be fooled by other bands whose demos were recorded in the studio and heavily processed, or even those that were recorded live but into a mixing console. We're the real thing - we don't hide our mistakes, and we balance our own music by playing louder or softer (rather than being at the mercy of the sound guy with the mixer). At this wedding reception, we played two sets of 16 songs per set. The first set was during dinner, and we set the mood with relaxed tunes for slow or easy dancing. The second set featured more driving, uptempo arrangements because the bride and groom really wanted their guests to party it up on the dance floor, and they sure did! |
| Dinner/Dance Music | Dance Party Music |
| At Last - the newlyweds' first dance | Bugle Call Rag - our usual set opener |
| In The Mood - Glenn Miller's classic dance tune | Massachusetts - the band's theme song |
| Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller's classic ballad | Lester Leaps In - a Count Basie classic with a screaming trumpet shout chorus |
| Begin The Beguine- Artie Shaw's signature tune | Stuff Like That There - Bette Midler revived this song in the movie "For The Boys" |
| I Know Why - Glenn Miller vocal ballad from the 1941 movie "Sun Valley Serenade" | Cottontail - a Duke Ellington masterpiece with an awesome sax soli |
| Time After Time - based on Ella Fitzgerald's rendition | Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen - with a Klezmer interlude a la Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall in 1937 |
| The Nearness Of You - Glenn Miller vocal ballad | Ciribiribin - starts out as a waltz, but it doesn't end like one... |
| Strictly Instrumental - Harry James trumpet feature | For Dancers Only - Jimmie Lunceford classic with a screaming trumpet solo |
| I've Heard That Song Before - as performed by Helen Forrest with the Harry James Orchestra | Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - Andrews Sisters signature tune |
| On The Sunny Side Of The Street - Tommy Dorsey vocal version | Life Goes To A Party - Benny Goodman classic uptempo tune |
| Jersey Bounce - Benny Goodman | Stealin' Apples - a great Fletcher Henderson arrangement as performed by Benny Goodman |
| I Said No - as performed by Ella Fitzgerald | Traffic Jam - our fastest and wildest tune |
| Route 66 | |
| Flying Home - Lionel Hampton's signature tune | |
| Sing Sing Sing - the drums make people do crazy things on the dance floor | |
| Hava Nagila - the popular hora tune (this one is from a different wedding) |