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Here are 52 tracks (49 currently streamable, mostly 'full track', from 22 artists), from the top of last week's Swing group track chart. They're the tracks, from Swing's 166 connected artists, where four or more of the group's 614 members have listened, during last week.

I've tagged all the tracks swing connected top tracks 18 oct 09 (globaly here, in my library here).

Subscribers can hear them, as a PTT radio: via Flash, on the webpage or on the Last.FM player.

Please over-tag the tracks you like, to improve the global tag and help make that playable. If you'd like to comment on the artist connections, please do so -> here.

Please let me know hoe you like the list and radios, in general.

Amy Winehouse: Back To Black Rehab Some Unholy War
Artie Shaw: Back Bay Shuffle
Benny Goodman: Body and Soul Bugle Call Rag Goodbye King Porter Stomp Let's Dance Moonglow Sing, Sing, Sing Stompin' At the Savoy

Billie Holiday: All of me I'll Be Seeing You
Cab Calloway: Minnie The Moocher
Chuck Berry: Johnny B. Goode
Dean Martin: Ain't That A Kick In The Head Memories Are Made Of This
Duke Ellington: It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Elvis Presley: Blue Suede Shoes Don't Be Cruel Jailhouse Rock Little Sister Suspicious Minds

Etta James: At Last
Frank Sinatra: Come Fly With Me Fly Me To The Moon I've Got You Under My Skin New York, New York The Lady Is A Tramp

Glenn Miller: In the Mood Moonlight Serenade
Jerry Lee Lewis: Great Balls Of Fire
Lionel Hampton: Flying Home
Louis Armstrong: What A Wonderful World
Miles Davis: All Blues Blue In Green Freddie Freeloader Love For Sale So What

Norah Jones: Don't Know Why
Peggy Lee: Fever
Ray Charles: Hit The Road Jack I Got A Woman
The Beatles: Help! Let It Be Ticket to Ride
The Brian Setzer Orchestra: The Dirty Boogie
Thelonious Monk: Evonce Humph Suburban Eyes Thelonious

I fondly remember seeing W.I.T. and Larry Tee at The Egg, 25 May 03, as part of the LED Festival weekend. W.I.T. were promoting their excellent album Whatever It Takes but, since, seem to've moved on to other things.

They were a great electroclash band, exuding a Barbarella tinged feminism and're widely missed. So, I was delighted to find footage from their La Sala Rossa, Montreal show (28 Jun 2003). Here they are, performing I Surrender.

Their only streamable track on Last.FM is Ooh I Like It. If you'd like more tracks, please tag them streamable track wants and maybe someone'll take the hint.

DJ Jazzy Jeff Mon 13 Apr – DJ Jazzy Jeff I wish I was there w/ room to dance.

I just noticed that a 5th Studio Album section appeared on Goldfrapp's Wikipedia, leading to Goldfrapp.com/blog where Alison Goldfrapp, 4 Jun 09 said:
We are in London today writing, we are doing a week up here and a week in Bath, alternating like that until the album is finished. It’s great to be in both the city and in the countryside for the making of this album. (Goldfrapp, Will Gregory)

I for one am looking forward to a Seventh Tree follow-up, ideally in the Felt Mountain or Black Cherry neighbourhood, but whatever it is courageous, please.

This is a little earlier in the year than when we heard the first whispers of Seventh Tree, so there's hope we'll see a release before Christmas.

Update 24 Oct 09: The most official word I've heard regarding a release date, has come to us via BBC 6 Music, a couple of days ago - "Alison says work is well underway on their new album due out in 2010".

I stumbled upon My Dear Disco's White Lies today, which showed enough potential to skim their 2008 album - Dancethink LP.

Then I noticed that track four - a Stevie Wonder cover, All I Do - is a ' free download' (0c download). Now, the album's a DIY release (i.e. not from a label we might expect to have any special leverage on All I Do), so how are they in a position to give away copies / plays of the song?

It seems like either: My Dear Disco have very deep pockets, Stevie's been kind enough to forgo royalties^* or some lawyers are waiting for My Dear Disco to get very deep pockets (so they can empty them). If the band aim to get picked-up by a major and it's anything like the last option, despite what looks like some quite hefty PR, I wonder how such a liability would compromise due diligence in a label signing.

^{* - Clarence Paul & morris Broadnax are also credited for the song's lyrics.}

I'm not down-on My Dear Disco, to my ears they have good potential, but this looked like an odd use of a song and I've failed to find it written about elsewhere. If you know more about this release or have other ideas about the usage / licensing, please comment.

Way back in 2002, before this place, the collaborative filtering music discovery systems I used were Amazons' and my Yahoo! LAUNCHcast personal radio (now killed by CBS).

I think it was LAUNCHcast that turned me on to Stacey Kent's 2001 Dreamsville album and - man - Did I feel I was in on something good?! If you're not familiar with the release, I strongly suggest checking-out You're Looking At Me, Hushabye Mountain, I've Got A Crush On You and Dreamsville.

For years I felt like one of the select few who knew her. When I first joined AudioScrobbler in 2005, absence of her recordings was one of the standards by which I judged the LAUNCHcast's catalog better than here.

During 2006 she became streamable and in July I tagged her as lesser known yet streamable artists which, by then prevailing standards, would've meant that she had less than 10K listeners, on Last.FM.

Over time, her notoriety's grown'n'grown and, hey hey, my girl's: topped a million plays on Last.FM (with 130K+ listeners), her Breakfast on the morning train was Grammy nominated, won British & BBC jazz awards ... and now she's been knighted! - Awarded with the medal of Knight of the French Order of Arts and Literature (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by Christine Albanel (French Culture Minister), during a ceremony at the Quai Branly museum in Paris. _{31 March 2009}

I've not been keeping-up with LAUNCHcast gossip of late but, today, got word from Steve (its product manager) and thought that - in light of Last.FM's recent streamability & audio usage licensing here - it'd be of interest to some here: Let me start by thanking you all for the postings and continued feedback. I'll do my best to provide as much information as I can.

We are still deeply committed to LAUNCHcast!

We maintain a dedicated programming team as well as continued engineering support for the product. We continue to add new music to the catalog and update all the popular programmed stations every week. Additionally, we have recently rolled out a fix for one of the top bugs that was causing an error with audio playback for some users.

Over the past year, we have been sidetracked by issues related to increased royalties and have spent time and resources putting mechanisms in place to help reduce costs. We continue to slog through royalty issues and have our eye on an end goal where Launchcast will be available on all platforms. Unfortunately, it's taking us longer to get there than we would like. Mac and Firefox support will not happen in the next few months, but we will get there. I understand the current frustration and will keep the group posted on new product developments.

Hope this helps and thanks for speaking up…(and listening)I've been awaiting Firefox - and improved open-systems support, in general - for over four years, so some of this sounds promising (it looks like a Music 2.0 LAUNCHcast remains a dream to far).

However, the general pithiness of the announcement makes it sound as if life's recently been a little uncomfortable for LAUNCHcast users - Ian _{My.Mashable.com/Scrawl}

The 3 Mustaphas 3 group is dedicated to the, you guessed it - Balkan's Szegerely town band - 3 Mustaphas 3.

The 3 Mustaphas 3 group on Yahoo! is now over 101 lunar months old, so I though this a golly good time for the Scrobblers of Mustapha to make a special sharing of their omnidirectional ears ... ¡Forward in All Directions!

Thus, I've been back through the group's weekly track charts for the last sixteen weeks and collected up all the tracks that Friends of Mustapha have scrobbled more than once, then accumilated those scrobblings/plays over the whole period, to derive a form of four lunar month track chart. The top fourty+ tracks from the chart, plus the odd tune from the Mustaphas, can now be found on my 3M3 Omnidirectional Ear Sharing - Jul 08 station. The tracks are as follows:

• 1^st with 8 plays
  • MGMT - Time to Pretend
  • The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
  • Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
• 4^th with 7 plays Joy Division - Dead Souls
• 5^th with 5 plays Soft Cell - Tainted Love
• 6^th with 4 plays
  • Amy Winehouse - Rehab
  • Arctic Monkeys - Choo Choo
  • Björk - Human Behavior
  • Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
  • Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
  • Coldplay - 42
  • Coldplay - Cemeteries Of London
  • Coldplay - Life In Technicolor
  • Coldplay - Lost!
  • Edwin Starr - War
  • Joy Division - Colony
  • Joy Division - Passover
  • Joy Division - She's Lost Control
  • Marvin Gaye - Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Today's Lesson
  • Nine Inch Nails - 1 Ghosts I
  • Portishead - The Rip
  • Ramones - The KKK Took My Baby Away
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees - Israel
  • The Clash - Spanish Bombs
  • The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
  • The Jam - David Watts
  • The Jam - Going Underground
  • The Mountain Goats - Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina
  • Uffie - Dismissed
• 30^th with 3 plays
  • Amadou & Mariam - Coulibaly
  • Björk - Army Of Me
  • Duffy - Mercy
  • Kirsty MacColl - He's on the Beach
  • Lady Sovereign - Public Warning
  • Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire
  • Public Image Ltd. - Low Life
  • Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
• 38^th with 2 plays The following tracks are the most popular played from artists who've had more than ten charting tracks, beyond those listed above, with two players.
  • Elbow - Grounds For Divorce
  • Erasure - A Little Respect
  • Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
  • Seth Lakeman - Race To Be King
  • The Innocence Mission - The Lakes of Canada

^{3m3 omnidirectional ear sharing - jul 08}

The 3 Mustaphas 3s were pioneers of the worldbeat and favourites of John Peel, but've not made new recordings since the early 90s - so I thought the amalgamated favourites of the 24 Scrobblers of Mustapha would make interesting listening.

Please let me know what you think of the selection, I expect it to play for over two and a half hours, without repetition - Best, Ian _{My.Mashable.com/Scrawl}