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Music Appreciation

Tomconroy

(7,611 posts) Sat Aug 7, 2021, 08:08 PM Aug 2021

Begin the Beguine - Benny Goodman

I think Artie Shaw had the hit, but this is pretty smoothe.

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Begin the Beguine - Benny Goodman (Original Post) Tomconroy Aug 2021 OP

It's a oldie-but-goodie, I'll give ya that ... Hugh_Lebowski Aug 2021 #1

That is a goodie. I restored a 1917 Model Victrola last year and I had that record playing Chainfire Aug 2021 #2

My dad was a huge Benny G., Jack Teagarden, Louis Armstrong fan. OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2021 #3

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)

1. It's a oldie-but-goodie, I'll give ya that ...

Reply to Tomconroy (Original post)

Sat Aug 7, 2021, 08:53 PM

Aug 2021

This is more my speed tho

Chainfire

(17,687 posts)

2. That is a goodie. I restored a 1917 Model Victrola last year and I had that record playing

Reply to Tomconroy (Original post)

Sat Aug 7, 2021, 09:20 PM

Aug 2021

earlier this week. The original version with all of the scratches.

I think I was born a couple of decades late.

OAITW r.2.0

(24,723 posts)

3. My dad was a huge Benny G., Jack Teagarden, Louis Armstrong fan.

Reply to Tomconroy (Original post)

Sat Aug 7, 2021, 09:44 PM

Aug 2021

Hated it then (1970s)....love it now. Dad was born and grew up in Brooklyn and told me stories of seeing these guys at the Paramoint Theater, before the war.

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