What's the name/artist of that swing song?

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You know, the one that’s in every single frelling movie set in WWII that involves young women standing around in a bar giggling to one another and soldiers standing in clumps drinking and slapping each other on the back? This is the song when Our Hero gets up his nerve and asks The Lady to dance and they get all swingalicious. (As opposed to the romantic slow song.) Lots o’ trumpets and syncopation.

C’mon, you know it: “badadawhopbadabadabdada - baadabadomp, baadabadomp…dododododo - dododododo (trumpet trumpet) dododododo - dododododo”

It’s driving me insane.

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Is it Rio, by Duran Duran?

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Sounds like the beat to Glenn Miller’s “Tuxedo Junction”.

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In The Mood, by Glen Miller?

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Do you mean the swing band dance fight song? The one song that gets played if there is a dance competition?

I believe the tune you are thinking is called Sing, Sing, Sing.

It was made famous by Benny Goodman and was written by Louis Prima.

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Tuxedo Junction

In The Mood

(Oh, and I should have typed Glenn Miller.)

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D’OH! :smack:

I tried to link the QuickTime files, but it only takes you to the page.

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Amazonedotcom link

You can listen to Sing Sing Sing in Windows or Real Media.

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Nope. Faster than all of these. It does have a very similar sound to the Glenn Miller songs, though.

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“Woodchopper’s Ball,” by the Woody Herman Orchestra?

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I nominate A String of Pearls by Glenn Miller & His Orchestra.

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Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy?

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Nope. No words that I’ve ever heard. Starts out with a loud blast of trumpets doing this sort of call that’s one of two very distinct motifs. The entire song is punctuated by two quick trumpet (or maybe it’s bugle?) blasts between bars of softer, rolling brass.

I spotted part of some crappy movie on Oxygen yesterday that had it in it, and it’s been stuck in my head for two days now. Aaaahhhh!

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You’re sure it’s not “Tuxedo Junction”, then?

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Could it be Chattanooga Choo Choo by Glenn Miller?

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You should realize that the tempo isn’t set. Someone could have done a different recording playing faster/louder/rougher than the stuff we have linked to in previous posts.

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Pennsylvania 6-5000?

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I’m convinced that it is In the Mood just played at a faster tempo.

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Johnny L.A. and Zebra, you’re right. It is “In the Mood”. And durned if the link on Amazon isn’t brown, showing I played it earlier. :smack: I feel really dumb now.

But also relieved that the mystery is solved, and I can finally get the silly song out of my head by listening to the whole thing. Thanks!