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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!

 

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.

BPM

Song Name

Artist

Album

Time

Fav

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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