Pre-Hot Rize Tim O. available as MP3 downloads, Homepage alert

[AlanN]

How cool. A couple of the tunes feature one Mike Scap (Scaparelli?), who I think was the first Hot Rize guitar man, before Charles. Figure The Ophelia Swing band was ~ 1976,77. And this was around the time of Tim's Guess Who's In Town recording, has some wonderful tunes, like Cadillac The Town In My Model A.

[Scott Tichenor]

Great stuff. I have copies of these I had transferred from LP to CD several years ago. Believe these have been out of print for a long time but are (as I understand it) just now available as downloads from amazon.com and possibly other places. Someone posted this on Facebook which was how I found out about it.

- Swing Tunes of the 30s & 40s (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002OAQB84?ie=UTF8&tag=mandcafe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002OAQB84)
- Swing It (Swing Tunes of the 30's & 40's)

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[Paul Kotapish]

I was a big fan of that band, too. Fun and snazzy. As I recall, Tim plays a killer version of "Blue Eagle" on Swing Tunes album.

[Brent Hutto]

Is there anyone who doesn't like swing music? I mean we all have other kinds of music we love better but swing is hard not to like at least a little, don't you think?