A little Swing for old time cops!

[DeaconKC]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNZP66CqRO4&feature=related
A nice, fun little music romp!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

i am actually glad you posted this because i never know who performed some of my favourite songs & now i do. i have to go buy Mr. Miller's cd tomorrow...

 

[Real Swell Gal]

I can dig it.
And I miss the days when cops always wore the old school cop hats.
Now alot of them just wear ball caps.[huh]

 

[metropd]

Almost all police departments still have those "oldschool"
service caps to wear on patrol. Unfortunately just like most people lack style today so do most cops.

I love Mr. Miller's music and swing and collect police uniforms so this was perfect.

 

[Real Swell Gal]

Almost all police departments still have those "oldschool"
service caps to wear on patrol. Unfortunately just like most people lack style today so do most cops.

I love Mr. Miller's music and swing and collect police uniforms so this was perfect.

Not around here they don't. Just in the bigger cities like Dayton and Columbus.
I used to date this one cop from a small town (very rural) and they could choose between a ball cap that said "police" (tacky), a campaign or sheriff style hat. So I got sick of seening this fine looking guy wearing his tacky cap and bought him (paid a pretty penny too) for the campaign hat with acorns.
I also got him a nice pair of aviator sunglasses and then I got him a pyle cap with hat shield pin for winter. I know I shucked out over a $100 for those hats back in 1993.
He was kinda funny about it untill he started getting compliments on it.
Then all the sudden he wanted the covers and other stuff that went with them. THEN some of the other officers traded their caps for sheriff or campaign hats.
I still see him from time to time and he still talks about that hat and he's not even a cop anymore.

 

[Forgotten Man]

The Boogie Woogily Piggy

HAHAHAHAHA!!! THAT IS HILARIOUS!lol

That song is a great one! I have the 78rpm and also on a CD. Featers Tex Beneke with the Modernaires... a swell song by a swell band!

=R

 

[ScionPI2005]

That's an awesome video. I'm a big fan of Glenn Miller, and love the Booogie Woogily Piggy song just as much as a lot of the other classics. The photos included in that video are neat as well. I enjoy looking at pictures of police officers, patrol cars, and the like from so long ago.

 

[Copper]

There was a distinct sense of style to those police uniforms then. Unfortunately style and 'smartness' in uniforms is becoming more rare, traded away for practicality. While I understand it, there must be a way to get a practical, durable police uniform that still looks good. I abhor the baseball cap and golf shirt look.

Though I no longer work in an area where I wear a uniform, I still make sure that my dress uniform is clean and pressed, that my parade boots are polished and my forage cap brim shiny. It feels good to wear the more formal tunic once in a while, though unfortunately I only seem to wear it to slow march in, if you know what I mean.

 

[The Wolf]

I didn't know that song. Thanks. It's all reet.

Sincerely,
The Wolf

 

[miss_elise]

fabbo! although now i want to see any ole' timey cop dancing the lindy all the way home...