<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Ken - -</div><div class="">Not being a communist country, or under any other dictatorship, I feel free to play a tune like “Smile” any damn way I want. If fact, since you ask, I have actually played it as a Reggae, with no repercussions, no flying tomatoes, so have at it, and swing away !! ! I bet you 10 million dollars that someone has played it in swing style ( I only make those large bets when i know it’s impossible to prove me wrong).</div><div class="">Pick a style, and if you like it, do it. Music is a creative, not static, with tunes being always played the same way. You have been set free ! ! ! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stay “tuned”</div><div class="">Bill#</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Message: 1<br class="">Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 09:53:50 -0700<br class="">From: Ken Gates <<a href="mailto:kwg915@gmail.com" class="">kwg915@gmail.com</a>><br class="">To: DJML <<a href="mailto:dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com" class="">dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com</a>><br class="">Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <<a href="mailto:dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com" class="">dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com</a>><br class="">Subject: [Dixielandjazz] A Charlie Chaplin composition<br class="">Message-ID:<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><<a href="mailto:CAF-cBBLQrz7EDMVe6KJtmzEk8Oc8V1qoTrJcwLbBLeZAR+RXSQ@mail.gmail.com" class="">CAF-cBBLQrz7EDMVe6KJtmzEk8Oc8V1qoTrJcwLbBLeZAR+RXSQ@mail.gmail.com</a>><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br class=""><br class="">?A question for those who play for dances or audiences.<br class="">Do you ever play "Smile" --- the Charlie Chaplin composition<br class="">for his movie "Modern Times"? Lyrics were added later and<br class="">recorded by vocalists at a slow tempo. I hear it as a very<br class="">pretty melody played as an instrumental with swing<br class="">phrasing at medium tempo. Anyone play it that way?<br class=""></body></html>