• "Straight" versus swung In music, the term swing has two main uses. Colloquially, it is used to describe the propulsive quality or "feel" of a rhythm...
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  • Swing time is a time feel in jazz music. Swing Time may also refer to: Swing Time (film), a 1936 movie directed by George Stevens starring Fred Astaire...
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    Swing Time is a 1936 American musical comedy film, the sixth of ten starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Directed by George Stevens for RKO, it features...
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  • Swing Time is a novel by British writer Zadie Smith, released in November 2016. The story takes place in London, New York and West Africa, and focuses...
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    Swing Time Records was a United States-based record label active in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The label was founded by Jack Lauderdale in 1947 as...
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  • Swing Time! is an album by pianist Claude Hopkins with saxophonist Budd Johnson and trombonist Vic Dickenson recorded in 1963 and originally released by...
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  • Single Swing (also called single-time swing) is a fast dance rhythm in the larger swing family of dances. Swing or Jive is danced to popular rock-and-roll...
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  • Look up Swing, swing, or swinging in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Swing or swinging may refer to: Swing (seat), a hanging seat that swings back and...
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  • Swing Time is a compilation album by American country band Asleep at the Wheel. Released on February 5, 1992, by Sony Music Special Products, it contains...
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    In American politics, a swing state (also known as battleground state, toss-up state, or purple state) is any state that could reasonably be won by either...
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  • Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s. It became nationally popular from the mid-1930s...
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    during the classic age of Hollywood cinema, including Top Hat (1935), Swing Time (1936), and Shall We Dance (1937). Astaire's fame grew in films like Holiday...
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    Swing dance is a group of social dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s–1940s, with the origins of each dance predating...
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  • Swing bowling is a technique used for bowling in the sport of cricket. Practitioners are known as swing bowlers. Swing bowling is generally classed as...
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  • The swing revival, also called retro swing and neo-swing, was a renewed interest in swing music and Lindy Hop dance, beginning around 1989 and reaching...
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    with the line "Does everybody know what time it is?" In reply, the audience yells, "TOOL TIME!" The Tool Time girl also assists Tim and Al during the...
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  • A swing vote is a vote that is seen as potentially going to any of a number of candidates in an election, or, in a two-party system, may go to either...
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    The golf swing is the action by which players hit the ball in the sport of golf. The golf swing is a complex motion involving the whole body; the technicalities...
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    of its biggest successes: The Gay Divorcee (1934), Top Hat (1935) and Swing Time (1936). But after two commercial failures with Astaire, she turned her...
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    The Swing (French: L'Escarpolette), also known as The Happy Accidents of the Swing (French: Les Hasards heureux de l'escarpolette, the original title)...
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    helped to polish the English dialogue for the film. Smith's fifth novel, Swing Time, was published in November 2016. It drew inspiration from Smith's childhood...
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  • "The Way You Look To-night" is a song from the film Swing Time that was performed by Fred Astaire and composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics written by Dorothy...
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  • "Sultans of Swing" is a song by British rock band Dire Straits, written by lead vocalist and guitarist Mark Knopfler. The demo of the song was recorded...
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    Mueller has cited Swing Time for possessing "the greatest dancing in the history of the universe." The dance sequences for Swing Time (e.g. "Never Gonna...
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  • the Opera (1935) 87. 12 Angry Men (1957) 89. The Sixth Sense (1999) 90. Swing Time (1936) 91. Sophie's Choice (1982) 95. The Last Picture Show (1971) 96...
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  • Swing trading is a speculative trading strategy in financial markets where a tradable asset is held for one or more days in an effort to profit from price...
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  • An electoral swing analysis (or swing) shows the extent of change in voter support, typically from one election to another, expressed as a positive or...
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    more than one child to play at a time. Such swings come in a variety of sizes and shapes. For infants and toddlers, swings with leg holes support the child...
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    Swing is a GUI widget toolkit for Java. It is part of Oracle's Java Foundation Classes (JFC) – an API for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for...
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  • prevailed among jazz musicians at the time". It contains one of the earliest uses in popular music of the term "swing". "It Don't Mean a Thing" (1932) excerpt...
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