re: #98 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

YouTube knew I needed cheering up, I guess. This is near the end of one of my favorite movies, Swing Girls, about a group of high school misfits who manage to form a decent jazz band.

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According to the “liner notes,” the actors learned their instruments from scratch in order to perform convincingly on camera.

After so many years of hearing that song, I learned only last year that it was written by Lous Prima. That song put him on the map.