Swing tunes recommendations

More Swing tunes...

In addition to the CD titles on our main Practice Music Recommendations page, here is a list of about 250 of our favorite individual Swing / Lindy Hop songs. This should get you started!

Favorites: We like every song on this list. But to help you fast-forward your shopping efforts, we have noted 25 of our particular favorites with this symbol:

Other Notes:

Tempo information is given in BPM (beats per minute). Note that BPM numbers are never precise, in part because the musicians often change tempo slightly across a song. You should read all the numbers as saying "give or take 3 or 4 BPM." Luckily, differences of about 5 or even 10 BPM don't make much practical difference on the dance floor, so you can be very relaxed about all this. Separately, note that songs faster than about 180 or 185 BPM are difficult to dance to, but we've included a few anyway.

Sketchy data. Some of these songs have only partial data listed. Sorry about that. If you have any info about the mysterious Lindylicious CD, or can fill in other gaps, please contact us!

BPM	Song Name	Artist	Album	Time
Displaying only the 25 'noted' favorites, sorted in order of increasing BPM. To see the full 250 song list sorted in a different order, click a different column header.
114	Wade In The Water	Eva Cassidy	Sophisticated Swing - Volume I	4:04
118	Swing Lover	Indigo Swing	Indigo Swing	3:11
121	Life Is So Peculiar	Louis Jordan & Louis Armstrong	The Anthology 1938 - 1953 (Disc 2)	3:21
124	Big & Hot	The Love Dogs	I'm Yo Dog	3:30
124	Sermonette	Earl Grant	Singin' & Swingin' - The Best of Earl Grant	2:42
128	Splanky	Count Basie and His Orchestra: Live In 1958 and 1959 -	Lindylicious (homemade CD)	3:55
129	Fine Brown Frame	Lou Rawls	The Legendary	3:04
137	Fever	Peggy Lee	The Capitol Years	3:21
142	Sunday In New York	Bobby Darin	Wild Cool & Swingin'	2:30
145	Sixteen Tons	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Vintage Collections	2:38
150	Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens	Louis Jordan	The Anthology 1938 - 1953 (Disc 2)	3:07
150	Whadaya Want	Casey MacGill And The Spirits Of Rhythm	Got Swing - Volume 1	3:17
151	Solid as a Rock	Ella Fitzgerald	The Last Decca Years 1949-1954	3:01
156	Christopher Columbus	Maxine Sullivan	Memories of You	2:22
158	Safronia B.	The Love Dogs	I'm Yo Dog	2:36
161	Morse Code of Love	Capris		2:41
164	Are You Hep to the Jive?	Cab Calloway	Lindylicious (homemade CD)	2:48
164	Oo Poppa Do	Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers	Jumpin' The Blues Volume 2	3:14
165	Mack The Knife	Bobby Darin	Mack The Knife - The Best Of Bobby Darin Volume 2	3:08
166	Don't Be That Way	Benny Goodman	Benny Goodman (Compact Jazz)	3:34
171	(You Dyed Your Hair) Chartreuse	Louis Jordan	The Anthology 1938 - 1953 (Disc 2)	2:36
178	Bloodshot Eyes	Louis Prima?		2:39
180	Walk Right In	John Ferreira & The Swing Machine	Jumpin' The Blues Volume 2	3:13

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Tempo of "Whadaya Want" corrected April 2010
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