| Artist |
Song |
Album |
Label |
Comments |
| Spike Jones Orchestra |
Der Fuehrer's Face |
Cocktail Hour |
Columbia River |
Degenerate Music: jazz & swing styles & techniques banned by the Nazis |
| Artie Shaw feat. Roy Eldgridge |
Little Jazz |
Begin the Begine |
Membran |
|
| Benny Goodman |
Swingtime in the Rockies |
Camel Caravan 11/20 1937 |
otr-cat.com |
banned: fast "hot jazz" tempo |
| Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli |
Avalon |
Nuages |
|
Reinhardt spent the war in occupied France; Grappelli fled to the UK |
| Bennie Moten's Kansas City Swing Orchestra |
Lafayette |
Wicked Swing |
BMG |
over 300 bpm! |
| Count Basie |
Jumpin' at the Woodside |
Complete Decca Recordings |
RCA |
no "hysterical rhythmic reverses" aka riffs |
| Duke Ellington Orchestra |
Syncopated Shuffle |
The Okeh Ellington |
|
syncopation no more than 10% of any composition |
| Dinah Washington |
Willow Weep for Me |
Jazz Round Midnight |
|
no gloomy lyrics -- this song's composer & lyricist, Anne Ronell, was Jewish & she dedicated the song to her romantic partner George Gershwin, also Jewish |
| Maxine Sullivan |
Blue Skies |
Say It With a Kiss |
|
this song has happy lyrics but the minor key makes it sound mournful & complex -- composer & lyricist Irving Berlin, Jewish |
| Hal McIntyre v/ Ruth Gaylor |
My Funny Valentine |
The Very Best of Hal McIntyre |
|
no jazz in a minor key -- composer Richard Rodgers, Jewish (rec. 1945) |
| Cab Calloway |
St. James Infirmary |
1930-1939 |
|
jazz in a minor key -- composer Irving Mills, Jewish |
| Billie Holiday |
They Can't Take That Away from Me |
Lady Day |
Sony |
jazz in a minor key -- c. George Gershwin l. Ira Gershwin, both Jewish |
| Coleman Hawkins |
Body and Soul |
'Round Midnight |
|
saxophone highly discouraged |
| Sidney Bechet |
Summertime |
Best of Sidney Bechet |
|
rec. 1939 |
| Charlie Parker Quintet |
Lover Man |
The Essential Charlie Parker |
|
rec. 1946 legendary Dial session |
| Ella Fitzgerald |
Oh, Lady Be Good! |
Essential Jazz |
|
rec. 1947 verbal improvisaion / scat singing forbidden |
| Woody Herman |
Four Brothers |
Blowin Up a Storm |
Columbia |
rec. 1947 saxophone discouraged: the four brothers were Stan Getz (ts), Zoot Sims (ts), Herbie Steward (ts), Serge Chaloff (bs) |
| Jimmie Lunceford |
Organ Grinder's Swing |
Rhythm Is Our Business |
|
no mutes, also no unusual percussion: "instruments alien to the German spirit" |
| Bob Crosby's Bobcats |
Big Noise from Winnetka |
Dance Off Both Your Shoes |
|
no bass without a bow, no drum breaks, no cowbell, no "patter on the sordine" |
| Gene Krupa |
Wire Brush Stomp |
Instrumental Mr. Krupa |
|
no drum breaks, no brushes on drums |
| Spike Jones |
Powerhouse |
Spiked: The Music of Spike Jones |
|
no cowbell, no flexatone |
| Glenn Miller Orchestra |
Tuxedo Junction |
Big Band on Stage |
|
no mutes on brass instruments |
| Duke Ellington Orchestra |
Black & Tan Fantasy |
The Duke |
Columbia |
no "wah-wah": Tricky Sam Nanton created the "wah-wah" sound with a plunger mute |
| Tommy Dorsey Orchestra |
Song of India |
Big Band Legends |
|
solo mute |
| Charlie and His Orchestra |
You're Driving Me Crazy |
Swing Tanzen Verboten |
Proper UK |
propaganda swing band created by Goebbels & broadcast at the UK to demoralize the British; they played popular swing songs with new anti-Allies lyrics |
| Kurt Hohenberger |
Warum, Weshalb und Wieso |
Swing Tanzen Verboten |
Proper UK |
Hohenberger stayed in Germany & pushed the boundaries of "acceptable" swing music |
| Hans Rehmstedt |
In Lambert's Nachtlokal |
German Big Dance Bands |
|
go to divavillelounge.org to see a satirical video made by the British during the war that mocks Hitler to this song. Please, watch it! |
| James Kok |
Und Die Ganze Welt Spricht Von Nanette |
Jazznocracy |
|
Kok was the most popular bandleader in Germany until he criticized Hitler in 1935 & had to leave the country. He spent the war in the UK & then moved to Switzerland |
| Willi Stanke Und Sein Orchester |
Der Schwarzen Panther |
Swing Tanzen Verboten |
Proper UK |
this song went too far into jazz & was pulled from distribution by German government after its release |
| Django Reinhardt |
Nuages |
Nuages |
|
recorded while Reinhardt was living in occupied France |
| The Andrews Sisters |
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen |
50th Anniversary Collection |
|
All songs in this set were favorites of the Swingjugend (Swing Youth) |
| Louis Armstrong |
Jeepers Creepers |
Great Swingers |
|
the Swingjugend were a youth movement of German teenagers who listened to swing music & dressed in American/British styles, in violation of German law |
| Ella Fitzgerald o/ Chick Webb |
A Tisket, A Tasket |
Stomping at the Savoy |
Proper UK |
while the Swingjugend didn't face nearly the brutality inflicted on other populations, their leaders were arrested and put in concentration camps |
| Benny Goodman |
Goody Goody |
Let's Dance |
Big Band Jump |
after the war Swingjugend members said they sang these songs in the camps to keep their morale up |
| Glenn Miller Orchestra |
In the Mood |
Hits of '39 |
ASV Living Era |
visit divavillelounge.org for a link to more information about the Swingjugend |
| Fats Waller |
Sweet Sue |
Completed Recorded Works Vol 3 |
JSP |
more songs the Swingjugend loved |
| Slim Gaillard |
The Flat Foot Floogie |
Laughing in Rhythm |
Proper UK |
the movie "Swing Kids" is a not totally inaccurate depiction of the Swingjugend |
| Mills Brothers |
Caravan |
L'Art Vocal |
|
the Swingjugend were largely apolitical until the government began cracking down on them |
| Benny Goodman |
Goodbye |
Let's Dance |
Big Band Jump |
for information about the topics covered in this show please visit divavillelounge.org |
| Charlie and His Orchestra |
Bye, Bye, Blackbird |
Swing Tanzen Verboten |
Proper UK |
bye, bye empire! |
