Playlist For November 30, 2011

The playlist for the November 30, 2011 broadcast of the Swing Shift Shuffle has just been added to the playlist filing cabinet.

Shop To The Lindy Hop And Yours Truly Next Week

The weekly Red Hot Lindy Hop lesson and session continues this Friday night at the Rumba Room with a lesson by Mike T. and Michelle and music by Mike T.  Free admission before 7:00 p.m., and $5 at the door afterwards. 

Dress like you are going out!

Rumba Room

303 South Main

Memphis, TN 38103

Next week, the kind folks at RHLH invited me to take another at spinning the tunes, so hop on down and say "Hello, Joe!  Whaddaya know?"

Black Friday Holiday Break

I'm taking a week off to make my holiday preparations, but I'll be back on December 5.  Some basic SSS operations will continue, like the playlist posting and notice of any imminent and interesting event.  In the meantime, I hope everyone has a careful, courteous and safe Black Friday.  The above family from Providence, Rhode Island in 1944 has started their holiday shopping.  Courtesy of the Library of Congress American Memory Collection.

Happy Thanksgiving!

To everyone, whether at home or abroad, travelling, or - like this family - at work on this holiday, we at the SSS wish everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving!  This photo from the Library of Congress American Memory Collection was actually taken on Thanksgiving.  From the LOC:

Thanksgiving, 1942. American workers give up the holiday to speed victory. The Blackwelder family celebrated Thanksgiving at their benches in a Glenn Martin Company plant. William P. Blackwelder works in the tool crib of the plane factory, and his wife and daughter are riveters. A son, Frank, in the Navy for one year, has been wounded four times. He has been awarded several medals.

Playlist For November 23, 2011

The playlist for the November 23, 2011 broadcast of the Swing Shift Shuffle has just been added to the playlist filing cabinet.

Lost Memphis: Klyce Motors Studebaker Dealership

Memphis' own Vance Lauderdale posted this interesting bit of lost Memphis on Ask Vance.  Aside from the building itself, the photo features two 1949 Studebaker Commanders in the Klyce Motors livery.

Brothers Arnold and Walter Klyce opened Klyce Motors, Memphis’ only Studebaker dealership, on South Cleveland in 1945. Newspapers praised the building’s clean design, created by Memphis architect Zeno Yeates, and proclaimed it “one of the most modern and attractive dealerships in the South.”

Sunrise Serenade: Dinah

This morning's Sunrise Serenade was "Dinah" by Bing Crosby and the Mills Brothers.  Enjoy the video below from YouTube.

Sleep Off The Turkey This Friday - No Lindy Hop

The Red Hot Lindy Hop will be sleeping off the turkey and dressing this Friday, but it will return to the Rumba Room next week with a lesson by Mike T. and Michelle and music by Mike T. 

Rumba Room

303 South Main

Memphis, TN 38103

Sunrise Serenade: Hit That Jive Jack

Today's Sunrise Serenade was "Hit That Jive Jack" by the Four Vagabonds.  Click on the song title for a sample from emusic, or click here for the album page.

Gale Allen And The Girl Squadron

I started following a comics blog called Four Color Shadows, and it did not take long for me to find something worthy of a post here.  As far as I can tell, Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron is about an all female space patrol that operates from Venus.  According to FCS, this 1940s title was drawn by female artist Fran Hopper.  In this episode, the Girl Squadron saves the inhabitants of a nearby planet from enslavement by a villian using a mind-altering gas.