Hehehe...Sent you an e-mail, Blackened, you're welcome to reply at
SergntMac@aol.com
If what you have heard as the "One O'Clock Jump" seems lame, well, it's been covered by many, many Big Bands over the years, it was a top ten hit back then. The copy/cover we have on our MM audio CD, is the Harry James Band, quite popular in the late '50s.
I can polka and I can slide. I can Chicago bus stop too. I know when to "put your left foot in and shake it all around", eh?
LOL..."A big bad biker dude dancing" to any music
at all, inspires my imagination. Thanks for the chuckle!
It strikes me as funny as Billy Crystal playing the President (though some would suggest Bush is as funny), or, Al Sharpington as "The Terminator". Ouch! C'mon Al, watch the cattle prod, will ya!
Music...Is imagination. Disney knew this. It's what you make it to be. It can be any music at all, as long as it gets you up and out of your chair.
I've been a sidedrummer in a bagpipe band longer that I want to admit, and despite our Grade 2 National Champion status, I can't figure out what those pipers are playing, or, why. But, I can help them sound better, and I do, and this gets me out of my chair.
So does Harry James, when he directs a dozen trumpets, trombones and french horns in a 50 piece brass orchestra, to Jump at One O'Clock...Exactly.
When you listen to it, imagine trying to steer that 50 piece bus. Same ambitious sound you hear from Tower of Power, and early Chicago horn lines. Hang on, dude, lot's of air coming your way.
You got my e-mail, Blackened, your choice.
BTW, thers is an appropriate Beach Boys tune present on the CD, "Don't Worry, Baby". I wanted some Mama's and Papa's tunes too, but, alas...