Thereupon I had my portable record player, along with about one hundred records sent to me – English and American swing records. Electro swing is mainly popular in Europe, and electro swing artists incorporate influences such as tango and Django Reinhardt's gypsy swing.

As a dance music promoter and agent, Goldkette also helped organize and promote McKinney's Cotton Pickers and Glen Gray's Orange Blossoms (later the Casa Loma Orchestra), two other Detroit-area bands that were influential in the early swing era. Hines' style was a seminal influence on the styles of swing-era pianists Teddy Wilson, Art Tatum, Jess Stacy, Nat "King" Cole, Erroll Garner, Mary Lou Williams, and Jay McShann. Even those prisoners who did not have the energy or opportunity to be present at such concerts were, after a note from Štancl, thankful for the encouragement and variety: 'I cannot think of a single appearance in front of the comrades which was not well-received, with satisfaction and even a certain amount of thankfulness. Developments in dance orchestra and jazz music during the 1920s both contributed to the development of the 1930s swing style. In the French prisoner camp in Perpignan in 1942, for example, the Viennese Erich Pechmann, imprisoned because of his Jewish faith, sang blues pieces and, in addition, imitated instruments with his voice.

In 1943 Columbia Records re-released the 1939 recording of " All or Nothing at All" by the Harry James Orchestra with Frank Sinatra, giving Sinatra top billing ("Acc. Herbert Weidlich, active in the office detail, could now assign all of the musicians of the jazz orchestra Rhythm to the specially created work detail for 'Transport Protection'. The early 1940s saw emerging trends in popular music and jazz that would, once they had run their course, result in the end of the swing era. These bands satisfied the demand for syncopated popular music by the civilian population as well as by soldiers on leave from the front.

Ten years ago this type of music was flourishing, albeit amidst adverse conditions and surrounded by hearty indifference.Later, the remaining musicians were transferred via Berlin and Sachsenhausen into a satellite camp of Dachau. In 1935 the Benny Goodman Orchestra had won a spot on the radio show Let's Dance and started showcasing an updated repertoire featuring Fletcher Henderson arrangements.

The Victor Recording Orchestra won the respect of the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in a Battle of the Bands; Henderson's cornetist Rex Stewart credited the Goldkette band with being the most influential white band in the development of swing music before Benny Goodman's. For economic reasons, the Nazi regime for a long timeeven toleratedthe production and distribution of German as well as foreign records and films with jazz content. During the Weimar Republic, jazz conquered Germany and in the process became a symbol of the Roaring Twenties.Swingfans אנחנו מתמחים במאווררי תקרה איכותיים, עמידים ומעוצבים וחרטנו על דגלנו ערכים של חדשנות, יצירתיות, יעילות ואמינות. Sweet" dance music remained most popular with white audiences but the Casa Loma Orchestra and the Benny Goodman Orchestra went against that grain, targeting the new swing style to younger audiences. Such loopholes existed because the cultural politics of the Third Reich vis-a-vis jazz and jazz-related music was characterized by the coexistence of contradictory and ambivalent measures, for which no unified strategy existed.