The US Swing Dance Server [home][new][events][styles][technique][steps][literature][terms][music][videos][clubs][links]

Music to buy for Swing Dancing

Abbreviations

 
WC WCS
L Lindy Hop
CS Carolina Shag
EC ECS
SLSH St. Louis Shag
B Balboa
+ good    ++ very good    +++ excellent
$$$ good buy (lots of good songs for your money)

• Good Swing CDs compiled by Ross Mernyk
• James Van Buren - Live at Littleton Town Hall $$$

  1. 140 WC+ / CS++
  2. 130 WC++ / CS+
  4. 130 WC+ / CS+++
  7. 150 EC++
  8. 120 WC++ / CS++
  10. 100 WC
  13. 130 WC+
  

  Private label. Call (303)321-0587 to order or write to: Van Buren Records & Tapes, 850 South Oneida, Denver, Colorado 80224
• The Jive Aces - Our Kinda Jive Perfect Hand Snappin' Jive

  1. 190 EC ++
  2. 210 EC +
  3. 200 EC 
  
  

• The Jive Aces - Bolt from the Blue

• Taj Mahal - Dancing The Blues (lots of WC) $$$
• Patti Austin - That Secret Place (2. 130 WC+++)
• The HoneyDrippers - .. (1. 150 EC++, 5. 150 EC+++)
• Soundtrack of Swing Kids (L++)
• Debbie Davies (both albums great for WC!) $$
• Big Joe Turner - Greatest Hits (EC++, L++) $$$
• Chuck Berry - The Great 28 (of course EC++) $$$
• Big Nite Out - .. $$$
• Swing Sisters New discs from upstate jazz divas Nancy Kelly and Diana Leigh
• Let's Dance! The Best Of Ballroom new CD compiled by the dance teachers Laura Canellias, Enio Cordoba, and Eric Goldberg.
• The US Swing Dance Server (you can add to this page)[home][new][events][styles][technique][steps][literature][terms][music][videos][clubs][links]

  http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/aswin/sds