It"s "Make-Believe Ballroom Time," sing The Macernaires. And so it is, in this collection of 40 of the greatest dance hits of the Swing Era. Not Only are all the great bands here, but the dance crazes as well, from the Fox Trot to the Big Apple. test your memory with some movements that can still be performed today, bore their names.Swing began to be the thing across America in 1935, when inexpensive phonographs, thirty-five cent records and the rise of the juke box coincided with a nation"s need to forget about it"s economic woes. In addition, dance music could be heard late into the night as radio series picked up every dance band worth broadcasting. So while a few enlightened folk may have been aware of the great sounds in Harlem and Kansas City well before 1935, an entire country began to swing when Benny Goodman opened the secret door courtesy of the arrangements Fletcher Henderson wrote for the band.Within 3 years, swing had moved into Carnegie Hall, with Benny Goodman"s famous concert. Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Bob Brosby and Artie Shaw joined Benny on the swing throne, with Glenn Miller, Harry James and Woody Herman waiting in the wings. Duke Ellington, Jimmy Lunceford, Chick Webb, Cab Calloway and Count Basie winked and kept on doing what they"d been doing for years, and reaped greater record sales and audiences. This music could be appreciated in its own right, as it has contained to be for six decades, but the dancing had already become something incredible.Aside from The Fox trot, the major dances of the Swing Era were the Jitterbug and The Big Apple.