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They Don't Write Or Play Our Kind Of Music Anymore! (David Small)

I'm not sure about you, but I really miss hearing the sounds of the Big Band and Swing era of our youth.

Bet there is a potential Ballroom full of Oak Point residents who would enjoy a romantic evening listening and dancing once again to those groups we used to love so much. If you'll just sign up on the posted interest sheet outside the Social Directors office, I'll be happy to bring back those favorite original sounds for one special night---no obligation and no cost.

We've heard lots of both professional and, more recently, amateur groups doing credible (?) jobs playing a few of the old charts. But it isn't the same, is it? My large collection of originals recorded by the best known bands and their great singers from that era, will bring back those sounds just as you remember hearing them at school sock hops, on the radio, at your proms, from juke boxes, at The Totem Pole, Moseley's On The Charles, Seiler's Ten Acres, etc., and on the old 78 records we all used to collect.

For one night I'll become a disc jockey just as I had a good time being one for a number of Sunday morning jazz programs on a Public Radio station in Baton Rouge, LA before we moved back here to our New England and Oak Point.

So if you heard them and would like to revive your memories of Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, Artie Shaw, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Harry James, Gene Krupa, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Lunceford, Les Brown, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Cab Calloway and a host of others along with their star singers, just let Debbie and Carolyn know you want them to schedule such an evening of reminiscences in the Oak Point ballroom by signing the posted interest sheet.

Just come and enjoy yourselves either dancing again cheek to cheek, or just listening to those stars of the past (and our own past)!

- Dave Small

Thanks David We look forward to it.You're right, they never play the oldies much any more. Jerry Lewis had a lot of the old timers on his telethon over the weekend like he always does and brought back a lot of memories.
- Norman & Joan Forde

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Comments:

Author: TonyLawrence (72.74.95.127) Mon Oct 8 20:44:00 2007

See Dave's post at http://oakpointcommunity.org/misc/dsmall.html.

Author: TonyLawrence (72.74.95.127) Sun Oct 7 14:40:47 2007

Note at the clubhouse says they are looking at February for this.

Author: TonyLawrence (72.74.95.127) Tue Jan 1 14:05:47 2008

I saw Dave at the Dance last night - he says this is scheduled for February 9th.

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