Swing, Swing, Swing


Claude McNeal's award-winning Swing Swing Swing the singing, dancing swing show, that played to sold-out audiences in Tampa. Florida, and Indianapolis, Indiana, will premiere at the Gaslighter Theatre in Branson, Missouri, in March 2004. Swing Swing Swing is the heartwarming story of young Johnny Logo, a swing ballroom deejay in the late 1930s, whose life and times follows the Story of Swing music in America as its popularity hangs over the years of changing musical tastes, then finds its mark in the more-popular-than-ever new-swing. Magically, Swing music, which was called “America's music” by President Roosevelt during WWII, held its own over time.

By the 1980s Swing music had a great resurgence, first in England, then across America as swing dance clubs, and new-swing bands made it one of the most popular forms of music everywhere. In 1999, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy played the Super Bowl! As Louis Armstrong said, “Swing music makes everybody smile, and it will last forever!”

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