I've had so many tsp edits on the go recently and I finally got one done today!
I'm going to have to try to explain the entirety of TSP to my cousin today in under an hour so to help I made this! Technically I don't have to explain it to her but I want to so...
Song: Let's Start Again - Cut Capers (Oddchap remix)
Edwin Thomas "Ed" Shaughnessy (January 29, 1929 – May 24, 2013) was a swing music and jazz drummer long associated with Doc Severinsen and a member of The Tonight Show Band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
''At the time it was a bummer to see the PNW scene sullied by its exposure to the rest of America. I mean Kurt hated it so much because he lost his home which were his bearings from which he looked out at the world. Corporations only have one thing in mind and it ain`t art. So he struggled as he circled the drain. I think his idealism and youth got him. It was tragic. Musically some of the music had ass and fighting spirit so I liked that. We played with a lot of those bands coming up especially in Seattle (like at Washington Hall and the Central Tavern) and Portland (Satyricon) and the scene in its early days was more amorphous and accepting as far as genres were concerned. I definitely was trying to provoke from inside. We had tatted up tough flapper chicks that would dance on stage then stage dive into the audience. We were trying to say there is not only one way to do this. But as usual we were too strange. We did make it into Singles as a visual joke, however.''- Steve Perry, Cherry Poppin' Daddies.
Keeping on the dance trend, I wanted to share this video that I used to watch over and over when I first started dancing YEARS ago. Al Minns and Leon James were AMAZING. The variety of Charleston steps they show here are just a taste of what you might see in a Charleston competition these days. (Are people doing Charleston comps anymore??) It's also great to see how Charleston was one of the predecessors of the Lindy Hop. I love this dance. I miss dancing.
Frank Sinatra illustrated album covers: IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS (1955 - Capitol Records), WHERE ARE YOU? (1957 - Capitol Records), COME FLY WITH ME (1958 - Capitol Records), SINGS FOR ONLY THE LONELY (1958 - Capitol Records), POINT OF NO RETURN (1961 - Capitol Records), RING-A-DING DING! (1961 - Reprise Records), ALL ALONE (1962 - Reprise Records), SINATRA AND SWINGIN’ BRASS (1962 - Reprise Records), MOONLIGHT SINATRA (1965 - Reprise Records), SEPTEMBER OF MY YEARS (1965 - Reprise Records).