Grab your fedoras, zoot suits, Stacy Adams’ dance shoes, and zipguns. Here’s what you’re in for:

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Royal Crown Revue – Walkin’ Like Brando
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – Go Daddy-O
Big Time Operator – The Game
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies – Brown Derby Jump
Big Town Playboys – Doopin’
Indigo Swing – The Indigo Swing
Atomic Fireballs – Pango Pango
Red & The Red Hots – Boogie Man
Squirrel Nut Zippers – I’ve Found a New Baby
The Flying Neutrinos – Mr Zoot Suit
The Swingtips – Vamanos, Los Gatos
The Chazz Cats – Come and Get It
Lavay Smith – Everyone’s Talkin’ ‘Bout Miss Thing
Lucky Strikes – It’s a Beautiful Thing
Lee Press On & The Nails – Sing, Sing, Sing (Live)

I’ve included the links I could to albums and/or tracks available on Amazon.com for the featured tracks.

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Cab Calloway with Ella Fitzgerald – That Old Black Magic
Artie Shaw – Untitled Track (lost my track listing)
Benny Goodman with Peggy Lee – Elmer’s Tune
Louis Armstrong with Bessie Smith – St. Louis Blues (1925)
Django Reinhardt – Nagasaki
Robert Johnson – Walking Blues
Frank Sinatra – Mack the Knife
Big Time Operator – It Don’t Mean a Thing
Linda & the Big King Jive Daddies – I’m Beginning to See the Light
8 1/2 Souvenirs – Shut the Door
Royal Crown Revue - Hollywood Tale
Royal Crown Revue – The Contender
Atomic Fireballs – Man with the Hex
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – Save My Soul
Ray Gelato Giants – Chicky-Mo
Mighty Blue Kings – Cadillac Boogie
Five in Love – Rip It Up

I’ve included the links I could to albums and/or tracks available on Amazon.com for the featured tracks.

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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – Self Titled, debut album – King of Swing (1994)
Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers – Oo Poppa Do
8 1/2 Souvenirs – Come Di
The Swingtips – Samba With Symphony Sid
The Swing Session – Baby’s Boogie Woogie
Lee Press-On and the Nails – Bai Mir Bist du Schon
Indigo Swing – Choo Choo Ch’Boogie
Big Time Operator – High Altitude Swing – Are You Hep To the Jive
Royal Crown Revue – Kings of Gangsta Bop – Hey Pachuco
Dr Zoot – Guido the Mosquito
Lucky Strikes – The Way You Look Tonight
Mora’s Modern Rhythmists – Big John’s Special
Cab Calloway – The Jumpin’ Jive
Jimmy & Tommy Dorsey – Boogie Woogie
Glenn Miller – In the Mood
Benny Goodman & Gene Krupa – Sing, Sing, Sing

I’ve included the links I could to albums and/or tracks available on Amazon.com for the featured tracks.

Though the dream of Club Topsy faded by December 1997, the wish still lived on to spread the greatness of new bands such as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Indigo Swing, Swingtips, and my favorite Big Time Operator. In 2002, I started a shoutcast radio station, Club Topsy Radio and hosted that radio station on this URL for nearly 3 years.

By the end of 2005, though I had almost 30,000 monthly listeners on average, I had paid nearly $8,000 out of pocket on bandwidth costs and needed to close it down. The weekly live radio show was a hit overseas, as well as in the United States for fans of an era that’s been out of the lime light for over a decade now.

Things have changed; but I still love this stuff. Every week, right here, I’m going to post a full one-hour set of Swingin’ sounds for your listening enjoyment. Club Topsy Radio Podcast Edition.

I’m doing this because I feel like it. I’m doing this because I love big bands, I love jump blues, I love jazz. I’m doing this because I like the hats, damn it – and because no one can stop me from wearing argyle socks. I’m doing this because I have such an extensive collection of this music that it needs to be shared, not only through the podcasts, but through the posts, which is why each post will include a track list, and a link to where you can purchase the CD or tracks, if they’re available.

I hope you enjoy it. I hope you share it with others you think will enjoy it.