Re: id song: go-go swing

Kevin Kiernan (mrfliz@interport.net)
Wed, 03 Jan 1996 16:16:09 -0500

Daniel Ryan Bidwa wrote:
>
> Daniel Hirschkoff <dh@nil.enpc.fr>:
> >Can anybody identify this song, which is being played from time to
> >time on Radio Nova, that goes "It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got
> >that go-go swing": it sounds like a go-go jam, a live thing if I
> >remember well (and of course reminds a bit of the jazz tune).
>
> Like someone else said, that's Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers.
> You're probably hearing the version from their "Only One Way to Go"
> CD, which was released by Rhythm King in 1988 or so.

the album "any other way to go?" was release by rhythm attack in 1987.

>I've seen at least two different reissues of parts of the record, both of which
> had "GoGo Swing" on them, but the original is still the best -- it's
> super long,

73 mins,37 secs

> and has Marion Barry (then the mayor of Washington DC)
> guesting on "Go Go Drug Free". (He was later arrested for cocaine use,
> spent some time in jail, and was recently reelected Mayor.)
>
> (now playing: Big Flame's "Rigour" compilation)

aah, the ubiquitous "now playing." i was wondering if this conceit would
eventually show up on the list (or it's abbreviation, "np"), and there it is.

kevin kiernan
mr fliz

np the tony rich project