Woody Herman - At the Woodchoppers Ball download song

I love this song! I played it in my seventh grade jazz ensemble!

This is the perfect tempo for this tune! Woody knew how it should go.

Woodrow Charles "Woody" Herman (16 May 1913 – October 29 1987). He was with Decca records for two and a half years before his band had its first hit, being "Woodchopper's Ball", recorded in 1939 it started out slowly at first, a real sleeper but Decca records kept re-releasing it and over a period of three or four years it became a hit, eventually selling over five million copies. source Wikipedia

some of the best swing of the era, great man

I got inspired to learn this song after seeing Buddy Emmons play it on pedal steel guitar many years ago.

Woody was a Milwaukee native, I remember going to the Performing Arts Center in Milwaukee for a field trip band clinic with the Thundering Herd. Very memorable. Great guy.

Makes me think of my dad. He taught me to jitterbug.

Is it me or was that trumpet solo really risky, props to whoever that was with being able to hold those long notes during his solo and making it sound good

Enjoyable classic!  Every time I hear this I envision a passenger train of the 1940s hauled by a streamlined steam locomotive at high speed.

I see a bunch of teens jitterbugging and having a ball. Many of the young men fixing to go overseas to fight in WW2. God bless them all!

I remember playing this back in middle school and I've gotta say, this was probably the most happy experience I've ever had playing music. This is really what bridged me over into the music I play and listen to today.

About 40 years ago, I figured this out on guitar,... the chords, the riffs, the bassline...thought it'd be cool to play it, but none of my contemporaries were interested. Alvin Lee did this one in a "rock" way, but I was lookin' for the jazzy way...

I met Woody after a great show at Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom in 1980. Cool dude, he was on the prowl for a little weed...

Ah, Swingdom in all it's glory!

A classic it was JUKE BOXES WHEN I WAS YOUNG saw him at the Done Brighton what a night superb when he started to play Woodchoppers the whole audience stood and cheered ah great memories.

I am 55. raised six kids on this great stuff. they could name some of the songs. they had great memories on road trips listening to big band. so many kids are not exposed because the parents don't have the appreciate the broad spectrum of different sounds nothing like the layers of a big band.

This on my ipod, ipad , iphone and pc - I never get tired of it!

Great to hear the original.

Being a disc jockey from the Big Band days...........there was no greater high than Woody and the Herd. His music continues to swing...................