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Swingtips: The Swingtips...in Roswell

by Dave Nathan
August 1, 2001

Spoofing UFO Capitol Roswell, NM, with cover and liner notes looking like they belong in a 1940‘s pulp fiction magazine, The Swingtips run the swing table from “Sam the Clam", an amusing take off on Dr. Seuss's Sam I Am, to a comparatively big production number like the “James Bond Theme". One of the earlier riders of the swing band revival wagon, this group was organized in 1994 by Kregg Barentine, after his two year stint with the Glenn Miller ...