So this "T.J. Somethingsky" guy who's been producing

all these "My Music" fundraising specials on PBS (the folk shit, and the doo-wop shit, etc.) has finally gotten around to music that clearly ISN'T his (since he's thirty something) - Big Band. And he's recruited Peter Marshall and Nick Clooney to host, and the majority of it (so far) is clips from film and early TV appearances.

Well damn I love this shit. I am a firm believer in the identification of Benny Goodman as "King of Swing" and a clip they just showed of "Sing, sing, sing" with Gene Krupa doing his usual bananas act on the skins....

well shit. But it does of course add sweet irony to the fact that the time BG got whipped as "KofS" it was by Chick Webb - a drummer/Bandleader.

This is such way cool music, this Glenn Miller and tiny-little-young Frank Sinatra and the Andrews Sisters (there's a clip of "Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy" from an Abbot & Costello movie - ambrosia.