Big Band Beat

① 「It Don't Mean A Thing」

What good is melody, what good is music

If it ain't possessin' something sweet?

It ain't the melody and it ain't the music

There's something else that makes this tune complete

It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing

(doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah)

It don't mean a thing, all you got to do is sing

(doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah)

Well, it makes no difference if it's sweet or hot

Just give that rhythm everything you got

It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing

(doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah)

It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing

(doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah)

It don't mean a thing, all you got to do is sing

(doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah)

It makes no difference if it's sweet or hot

Just give that rhythm everything you got

It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing

(doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah)

BIG BAND BEAT!!

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② 「Sing Sing  Sing (piano ver.)」

Thank you ladies and gentlemen.

And welcome to our tributeto swing jazz,

Big Band Beat.

Tonight, for your pleasure,

we will present a live song and dance performance

to the same jazz beat that captivated whole world,

from the 1920th all the way to the 1940th,

the golden age of big band.

Now Mickey,

There are so many great jazz tunes.

We've got this fabulous band.

What if we begin with a stylish standard

song by our very own big band beat song bird.

She sings cuz she's in love “Night and Day”.

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③「Night and Day」

Like the beat, beat, beat of the tom-tom

When the jungle shadows fall

Like the tick, tick, tock of the stately clock

As it stands against the wall

Like the drip, drip, drip of the raindrops

When the summer shower is through

So a voice within me keeps repeating you, you, you

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Night and day,

you are the one

Only you beneath the moon or under the sun

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Whether near to me or far

It's no matter, darling, where you are

I think of you

Night and day, day and night,

why is it so

That this longing for you follows wherever I go?

In the roaring traffic's boom

In the silence of my lonely room

I think of you

Night and day

Night and day

Under the hide of me

There's an, oh, such a hungry yearning burning inside of me

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And its torment won't be through

'Till you let me spend my life making love to you

Night and Day

Day and night,

night and day

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④「〜Take the “A” Train〜」

Let's hear it for the sweet vocal styling of lovely big band beats song bird.

Isn't she wonderful?

And now, let's head up town

to one of the coolest spots deep in the heart of Halem.

It's a swanky ballroom where are jazz is always hot

and dancers is always swinging.

Any night of the week there is a good time be ahead

and anybody whose anybody is gonna be there.

So, you wanna be the bee's knees? 

Then come on along! All we need is one way ticket

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You must take the “A” train

To go to Sugar Hill way up in Harlem

If you miss the “A” Train

You'll find you've missed the quickest way to Harlem

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Hurrry, get on now it's coming

Listen to those rails are humming

On board, got on the “A” train

Soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem

Hoo! Hoo!

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You must take the “A” train

To go to Sugar Hill way up in Harlem

If you miss the “A” Train

You'll find you've missed the quickest way to Harlem

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Hurrry, get on now it's coming

Listen to those rails are humming

On board, got on the “A” train

Soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem

Hoo! Hoo!

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⑤「〜The Lady Is a Tramp〜」

She gets hungry for dinner at eight

She likes the theater and never comes late

I never bother with people I hate

That's why the lady is a tramp

She doesn't like crap games with barons and earls

Won't go to Harlem, in ermines and pearls

Won't dish out dirt, with the rest of the girls

That's why the lady is a tramp

I like the free, fresh wind in my hair

Life without care, I'm broke, it's oke

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Hate California, it's cold and damp

That's why the lady

That's why the lady is

That's why the lady is a tramp

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⑥「Stompin' at the Savoy」

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⑦「Jumpin' Jive」

Boys, what you gonna say there gate?

Oh boys, what you gonna say there gate?

Palomar, shalamar, swanny shore

Let me dig that jive once more

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Boys, take it right on down to the gator

Oh boys, lay it out flat as a gater

Can't you hear those hepcats call

Come on boys let's have a ball

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⑧「Diga Diga Doo」

Zulu man is feeling blue

Hear his heartbeat a little tatoo

Diga diga doo, diga doo doo

Diga diga doo, diga doo

You love me and I love you

And when you love it is natural to

Diga diga doo, diga doo doo

Diga diga doo, diga doo

I'm so very diga diga doo by nature

If you don't say diga diga to your mate

You're gonna lose your pop

So let those funny people smile

How can there be a virgin isle

Diga diga doo, diga doo doo

Diga diga doo, diga doo

I'm so very diga diga doo by nature

If you don't say diga diga to your mate

You're gonna lose your pop

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So let those funny people smile

How can there be a virgin isle

Diga diga doo, diga doo doo

Diga diga doo, diga doo

Diga diga doo!

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⑨「Cheek to Cheek」

Heaven, I'm in heaven

And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak

And I seem to find the happiness I seek

When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

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Heaven, I'm in heaven

And the cares that hung around me through the week

Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak

When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

Oh I love to climb a mountain

And reach the highest peak

But it doesn't thrill me half as much

As dancing cheek to cheek

Oh I love to go out fishing

On a river or a creek

But I don't enjoy it half as much

As dancing cheek to cheek

Heaven, I'm in heaven

And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak

And I seem to find the happiness I seek

When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

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⑩「Four Brothers」

Take a seat and cool it 'cause unless you overrule it

We are ready to show you some blowin'

A rompin' and a stompin' is a lot of fun

Four brothers who are blowin' our horn

So settle down an' listen 'cause you don't know what you're missin'

And we're ready to give you a showin'

A movin' it 'n groovin' it has just begun

Four brothers who are blowin' out horns

We got a little message that you're gonna enjoy

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Ain't no sense in dodgin' the facts

So settle in your easy chair an' if you ever had a care forget it

It's time to relax

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We might as well admit it, we're the best that ever did it

But in case you ain't too sure a knowin'

We're gonna let you listen to us one by one

Four brothers who are blowin' our horns

Ooh bop the news is gettin' around, we're really putting it down

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Well get outta here, get outta here, get outta here now

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Four brothers! Yeah!

Four brothers! Yeah!

Four brothers! Yeah!

Although we sound like more

Four brothers! Yeah!

Four brothers! Yeah!

Four brothers! Yeah!

We're really only four

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We like to blow but we don't know how time can fly and how our cares pass away

We wish the time would never go so we could take our time an' fly away

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Four brothers! Yeah!

Four brothers! Yeah!

Four brothers! Yeah!

Now just one final word

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Four brothers! Yeah!

Four brothers! Yeah!

Four brothers! Yeah!

Although we sound like more

Four brothers! Yeah!

Four brothers! Yeah!

Four brothers! Yeah!

We're really only four

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⑪「Bye Bye Blackbird (Duet ver.)」

Thank you ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much.

And now I'd like to show you how our big band is made.

First you got to take some skin.

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The you add a friend on the bottom end.

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Some jazz from our piano men.

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Now a touch a clap from the sax!

Now a little bit of jive from the slippery slide.

Now at last but not least we need the trumpet to pump it!

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Pack up all my care and woe
Here I go, singing low
Bye bye blackbird

Where somebody waits for me
Sugar's sweet, so is he

Bye bye blackbird

No one here can love and understand me
Oh what hard luck stories they all hand me

Make my bed and light the light
I'll arrive late tonight
Blackbird, bye bye

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Laies and Gentleman.

The Big Band Beat Juzz orchestra!

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Make my bed and light the light

I'll arrive late tonight

Blackbird, bye bye

Blackbird, bye bye

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⑫「Sing Sing Sing」

Sing, sing, sing, sing

Everybody start to sing

La dee da, ho, ho, ho

Now you're singing with a swing

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Sing, sing, sing, sing

Everybody start to sing

La dee da, ho, ho, ho

Now you're singing with a swing

And when the music goes around

Everybody goes to town

But here's something you should know

Ho ho baby ho ho ho

Sing, sing, sing, sing

Everybody start to sing

La dee da, ho, ho, ho

Now you're singing with a swing

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Sing, Sing

Sing, sing, sing, sing

Everybody start to sing

La dee da, ho, ho, ho

La dee da, ho, ho, ho

La dee da, ho, ho, ho

Now you're singing

Now you're singing with a swing

Now you're singing with a swing

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swing....

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With a swing!

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⑬「It Don't Mean A Thing (Curtain Call)」

It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing

doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah

doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah

doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-ah doo-Oh Yeah!

It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing

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Big Band Beat!