Come inside, and teach me how to jive and wail.

In 1998, the year I turned thirteen, I saw this commercial:

Screw the Gap and their khakis.  I needed to know what that song was, and what ’swing’ was.  So I asked my dad, who of course knows everything.  And he handed me this CD:

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