Artie Shaw's Class in Swing

[Forgotten Man]

Here's the full 1939 "Artie Shaw's Class in Swing" uncut and in its entirety!

This 1939 short has some great songs of his from that year, also a very young Helen Forrest and she sings "I Have Eyes" and the rare treatment of "Shoot the Liker to me John Boy" which is a real solid tune!

Latch on gates!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghp60s9Y7ak

 

[Fletch]

One of the best of the swing shorts!

The tune used to "build the band" is Shaw's original Table d'Hote. He never recorded it - it was only done by the Belgian band of Fud Candrix.

 

[Brinybay]

Thanks, Arties my favorite! Nice to see some video to the audio that I've been listening to. For some reason I pictured Helen as a blonde, but no matter:

I Have Eyes

 

[Fletch]

More Shavian sublimity: 2 Vitaphone Melody Masters.
Artie Shaw & Orchestra, 1938
Symphony in Swing, 1939

That tune Let's Stop the Clock kills me, and not just because Helen's singing it.

Another thing Artie could've taught a class in: clothes. He, along with Duke Ellington and Tommy Dorsey, might have been the best dressed of the big bandleaders. But Shaw was certainly the most drop-dead-handsome.

 

[Forgotten Man]

Some of my favorite songs by the Shaw band are:

Alone Together

Let's Stop the Clock

Shoot the Liker to Me John Boy

Man from Mars

Lady Be Good

All the Things You Are

A Room with A View

They Say

I just love the sound of his sax section and everything just seemed to gel so well!

Helen Forrest is, and will always be one of my favorite singers of that era... she brings me to tears some times... how I'd loved to have met her... *Sigh*

 

[Brinybay]

If I had to pick just a couple of favorites, it would be Sugar Foot Stomp and Copenhagen.