26 July 2008

Swing Music from Dublin

There's nothing to connect these two songs except that I first heard them when I went swing dancing in Dublin last year. I was editing the first one this morning and it made me think of the second.

  • Lisa Stansfield - Why Do We Call It Love? (180 bpm) (Amazon CD)
    My favorite part of this one has got to be the horns popping in mid-chorus. I also heard this one last week played as a quickstep for a ballroom competition on PBS.
  • Eileen Ivers - The Rights of Man (128 bpm) (Amazon MP3)
    Leave it to Eileen Ivers to turn an Irish hornpipe into something you can swing to. Maybe more of a bluesy swing, but still.

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