Lively clip from back in the day. In the big band era the emphasis was on hummable tunes, wasn't it? The tune was to inspire dancing and then whistling, the melody was supposed to get stuck in your head the way that tree always grabbed Charlie Brown's kites. If it didn't grab you right away maybe it would get you on the way out and you'd be in love with it by the time you got home. On the one hand, that's lovely, wouldn't it be nice if it were still like that? On the other hand, it was all they had whereas now we have a wide variety of music to get our kicks from. And now we can still go back and have the classics while we roll with the new.
Louis Jordan & the Timpani 5 -- 'The Green Grass Grows All Around'
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