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AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’: Not us!
AIN’T NOBODY HERE (BUT US CHICKENS): Farmyard boogie
AFTER YOU’VE GONE: Creamer/Layton standard
ANNIVERSARY WALTZ: Old tear jerker SwoTh style
A SMO-O-O-TH ONE: Charlie Christian/Benny Goodman
BAKED,BOILED & FRIED: Southside Cooking from sHuddersfield
BESAME MUCHO: Polyglot kisses
BLUE DRAG: Hot Club classic
BOUM! Une chanson par Charles Trenet avec les paroles en Francais!
BRAZIL: World Music from the 1930s
BUONA SERA: Louis Prima’s good evening to you
BUZZ ME BABY: Blues from Louis Jordan
CALDONIA: Louis Jordan boogie-woogie
CAPRICE: No 24 Paganini’s tune for the South Bank Show
CHEROKEE: 1930s classic by Ray Noble
CHOO CHOO CH’BOOGIE: Mr Louis Jordan’s steam engine
CRAZY RHYTHM: Gorgeously catchy tune
CZARDAS: Hungarian Gypsy stuff from Italian Monti
DAPHNE: By Django and friends
DARK EYES: Russian Gypsy song a la Polonaise
DINAH: ’20s standard
DJANGOLOGY: a study by the Master
DON’T GET AROUND MUCH ANYMORE: The Duke stays at home
DR JAZZ: Jelly Roll Morton in a swing style
DUNKIN BAGELS: Slim Gaillard madness
FLYING HOME: Lionel Hampton’s tune for Benny
GHOST IN MY GUITAR: Real spooky tune from our rhythmatist
HARLEM NOCTURNE: Boss baritone Bostic ballad
HONEYSUCKLE ROSE: Wild and beautiful
HONG KONG BLUES: Addiction tales from Hoagy Carmichael
HOW HIGH THE MOON: The standard that became Ornithology
HUMORESQUE: Taking Anton Dvorak for a walk
I GOT RHYTHM: Gershwin stomper
I GOT IT BAD (AND THAT AIN’T GOOD) Ellington ‘s oxymoron
IN THE MOOD: Glenn Miller standard given a new recipe
IT DON’T MEAN A THING (IF IT AIN’T GOT THAT SWING) The Duke says it all
I’VE GOT YOU (UNDER MY SKIN) Cole Porter’s allergy

JERRY THE JUNKER: Song of the electric chair!
JUST A GIGOLO: Weimar Republic crooner classic
LEFT BANK 2: You’ll have heard it on Vision On
LIMEHOUSE BLUES: London’s Chinatown speedswing
MACK THE KNIFE: From Brecht to Bobby Darin to Robbie Williams
MINNIE THE MOOCHER: Hi-de-ho from Cab Calloway’s pen
MINOR SWING: A little beauty from Reinhardt & Grappelli
NAGASAKI: Pre-war (WW2) standard
NIGHT AND DAY: Cole Porter’s round-the-clock love song
NORTHSIDE SWING: Home grown in sHuddersfield
NUAGES: Django’s weather predictions
ONE SCOTCH, ONE BOURBON, ONE BEER: Jimmy Rushing’s drinking song
PEANUT VENDOR: Dancing on the streets of Mexico
REET PETITE AND GONE: Louis Jordan’s sizist song
RUNNING WILD: 1930s song of gay abandon
SHINE: Anti-racist song from the ’30s
SOUS LES CIELS DE PARIS: Parisian Valse to grab you by the heart
ST LOUIS BLUES: Standard from W C Handy
STOMPING AT THE SAVOY:  Dancing with Benny
SWEET GEORGIA BROWN: Everybody’s standard
SWING ’39: Django/Grappelli ‘djewel’
SWING DE PARIS: More Hot Club swing
TAKE THE ‘A’ TRAIN: Directions from Ellington & Strayhorn
TEA SAMBA: Ghanaian Highlife from E T Mensah
TEARS (Larmes) Slow beauty from Reinhardt/Grappelli
THE THIRD MAN THEME: Anton Karas classic from the film
TICO TICO: Latin American dancing bird
TOP CAT: Tom’s role model from the cartoon
TU VUO FA AMERICANO: Italian warning about US influence
VIPER MAD: Muggles madness
VOUTNMELLOW: A bit of peace in a mad world
WHAT IS THIS THING (CALLED SWING) Cole Porter again
WHAT’S THE USE OF GETTING SOBER: Drink song from Louis J
WHO PUT THE BENZEDRINE (in Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine) Harry ’The Hipster’ Gibson’s paean to hot drinks