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RECORDINGS
ON WHICH THE MEMBERS OF THE GOTHAM CITY GATES
HAVE PLAYED OR CONTRIBUTED
George Gee and his
Make-Believe Ballroom Orchestra: Swingin' Live
Recorded "live" at Irving Plaza, New York City on January 26, 1997 at a Savoy Sunday Dance for the New York Swing Dance Society. Lance Bryant plays first tenor sax on the recording.
Track Listing:
"Come On In" by Frank Foster
alto sax: Cleave Guyton, trumpet: Kenny Rampton
"Blues For Stephanie" by John
Clayton, Jr
piano: Jon Cowherd, trumpet: Walt Szymanski
"Down for the Count" by Frank
Foster
piano: Jon Cowherd, trumpet: Irvin Stokes, trombone: Eddie Bert
"Let the Good Times Roll" by
Fleecie Moore, Sam Thread
vocals: Carla Cook, alto sax: Ed Pazant
"Where Or When" By Lorenz
Hart, Richard Rodgers
arranged by Lance Bryant, tenor sax: Lance Bryant
"Shiny Stockings" by Frank Foster
trumpet: Irvin Stokes
"Four-Five-Six" by Frank Foster
piano: Sara Jane Cion, trumpet: Irvin Stokes, tenor sax: Benny Russell
"Street of Dreams" by Victor
Young, Samuel Lewis
arranged by Frank Foster, trombone: Charles Stephens
"April in Paris" by Vernon
Duke, E.Y. Harburg
arranged by Steve Armour, tenor sax: Marshall McDonald, trumpet: Kenny Rampton
"Here's That Rainy Day" by Johnny
Burke, James Van Heusen
arranged by Frank Foster, vocals: Carla Cook, tenor sax: Marshall McDonald
"Wailin' Caylen" by Lance
Bryant
tenor sax: Lance Bryant, trumpet: Kenny Rampton
"Splanky" by Neil Heft
tenor sax: Lance Bryant
Ron Sunshine and Full Swing: Swingin' Christmas
Ron Sunshine and Full Swing cover three songs on this CD which also features the Swingtips, Heavenly Seven, Set 'Em Up Joe and the Flipped Fedoras swinging classic carols like "I'll Be Home For Christmas," Jingle Bell Rock" and "Silver Bells" (not to mention "I Saw Mommy Swinging With Santa Claus").
The Ron Sunshine tunes, arranged and produced by Full Swing, are:
"Santa Claus Is Back In
Town"
"Merry Christmas Baby"
"Blue Christmas"
Christmas music not being the most guitar
heavy genre, Dan Hovey (guitar, vocals) only solos on the final number.
Ron Sunshine and Full Swing: Straight Up
Recorded in New York City in July-August1998. Released on Daddy-O/Royalty Records with band members Ron Sunshine (lead vocals, harmonica),Andreas Villamil (upright bass, backing vocals), James Wormworth (drums, backing vocals), Paul Tillotson (piano), Craig Dreyer (tenor saxophone) and Dan Hovey (guitar, backing vocals).
"Enough For You (Mop
Mop)"
By Ron Sunshine
"Hit That Jive,
Jack"
by Slim Gaillard and King Cole Trio 
"Salt Pork, West
Virginia"
by Louis Jordan
Intro to "Red
Light"
"Red Light"
By Ron Sunshine
"Is That The
Moon?"
By Joe Flood (Full Swing's original guitarist)
"She Won't
Believe"
By Ron Sunshine
"Lounging At The
Waldorf"
by Fats Waller, guest vocalist: Moanin' Mary
"Tidbits" by Paul Tillotson NEW! Click here to read the liner notes
"Do You Know?"
by Ron Sunshine and Craig Dreyer
"Undecided"
Music featured on Casey MacGill's CD
NEW! The Blues Jumpers:
Wheels Start Turning
"Wheels Start Turning"
"Thanks For The Boogie Ride"
"Go Ahead And Burn"
"Jim Beam"
"Chicken Wing"
"Nightmare World"
"Chartreuse"
"High Ballin' Daddy"
"Too Lazy To Work"
"Ball Of Fire"
"Good Morning Judge"
"Baby I'm Gone"
"Where You Found Me"
The Blues Jumpers consists of:
Vocals - Eldridge Taylor; Guitar - Mike Girao; Alto Sax - Matt Hong; Tenor Sax - Jim Jedeikin; Bass - Joe D'Astolfo; Drums - Joe Geary with: Piano - Mike Bank; Trumpet - Doug Oberhamer
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