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navinljohnson
03-30-2010, 02:38 PM
Up in Va/NC & SC Beach Music is The Tams, Drifters, Embers, Band of Oz Ojays etc.
Are there any clubs in NOLA during Fest that will be playing such
Thanks
Navin
Belle
03-30-2010, 03:02 PM
Up in Va/NC & SC Beach Music is The Tams, Drifters, Embers, Band of Oz Ojays etc.
Are there any clubs in NOLA during Fest that will be playing such
Thanks
Navin
Do you Carolina shag too? I love beach music and dancing.
navinljohnson
03-30-2010, 03:19 PM
OOOH Baby
Me & My Bride
We just saw the Band of Oz in Lynchburg Sunday afternoon
"I Love Beach Music"
Staxsun
03-30-2010, 03:34 PM
You guys are talking my language! I don't think you'll see exactly that type of R & B in New Orleans, but there is some close. I used to be a member of the Association of Beach & Shag Club DJs, but I had to give it up due to my inability to get to the beach once a year. I'm also in the National Association of Rhythm & Blues DJs (former President), and lots of our members play that stuff. Now that Willie Tee is no longer with us, there isn't much chance to hear that smoother R & B in N.O. I'm not a very good shagger, but I can do the basic a little.
Staxsun
03-30-2010, 03:36 PM
I forgot to say that the local New Orleans dance is the Jamaica, which varies the most from the shag, bop, push, and West Coast, than any of the other local dances I've seen. They have some great people in their dance clubs, though.
navinljohnson
03-30-2010, 03:37 PM
That's the Willie Tee i grew up with.
Thank You John & Walking Up a One Way Street
revjimk
03-30-2010, 07:33 PM
Staxsun
The Jamaica?? Been going to New Orleans for 32 years & never hoid of it.... tell me more....
rev
Staxsun
03-30-2010, 10:25 PM
Staxsun
The Jamaica?? Been going to New Orleans for 32 years & never hoid of it.... tell me more....
rev
The Jamaica is a dance that I don't think is done anywhere but in New Orleans. It's an eight count circular dance done primarily to R & B or rock and roll music of the fifties. The name doesn't come from the tropics; it's named after the Jamaica Lounge in the Irish Channel where the dance originated. It's nearest cousin is the swing or bop. There are local groups that dance the dance and keep it alive.
Belle
03-31-2010, 09:14 AM
I was very lucky to the be the baby of a music loving, push back the furniture so we can dance kind of family.
My oldest brother was a Lindy Hop master
But check this guy out!!!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5917643635646377462
navinljohnson
03-31-2010, 09:22 AM
But his date is as good & he gets all the thunder
Navin
Belle
03-31-2010, 10:16 AM
But his date is as good & he gets all the thunder
Navin
She is a good one too.
My oldest brother graduated from college in about '62 I think. He had the best collection of albums including lots of Beach Music and swing. The music was always on when he was around.
He loved Billy Ward therefore I loved Billy Ward....;) Enjoyed his music from his time with Billy Ward and the Dominos, to the Inkspots. Very talented man.
The Tams were another group I enjoyed a bit latter in the 60's...they still tour from what I hear down Southeast way.
navinljohnson
03-31-2010, 03:01 PM
Joe Pope & the Tams.
Now his gandson singing
Tim marches on