Dee Dee and the Bel Airs
Moonshine Recording Session
(Hydra Records)
Jive is giggle juice that motorizes.
Per Original Product, Dee Dee and his audacious ensemble's 1980s animation included tearing into Rockabilly festivals alongside Gene, Carl, Haley's Comets, Tommy Sands, Wanda, and Frankie Ford.
The following decade, the combo heeded Curly's exhortation to "Swing it!" (Mama didn't allow no scat 'round there, but the galluses-snapping slickers succumbed to hot'n'cold temptation.)
Today, they're wringing every possible excitement drop from Jump Blues fabric. Risque finger-curls, strapping sounds bolstered by brass and ivory struttings, and scarlet 'tudes splay up, across, and all around the ballroom. Hepification gonna get you.
Dee Dee's vocal-chord perpetrations - sometimes laid-back, in other moments, jumpin' for joyfulness - bring to mind marvelous sides of yore waxed at Syd Nathan's Ohio King label. And the Harmony Five are just plain homicidal, in the finest of all possible fashions.
Smoke pours from dancing shoes sported by slick cats who squire frails before the rostrum, to the flabbergastation of absolutely no one.
Recommended: "Do You Wanna Be My Baby," "Beauty Parlor Gossip," "Hot Pot Boogie," "Hot'n'Cold Seek," "Don't Know Where She Went," "Sway," "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie," "Mellow Saxophone," "Sh-Boom"
Videos: "Do You Wanna Be My Baby" (live) "Beauty Parlor Gossip" (1/2) "Hot Pot Boogie" (live 1:13 excerpt) "Sh-Boom"
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