Casa Loma Orchestra: Casa Loma Stomp

It's hard to believe anything this frantic could've been considered dance music. "Casa Loma Stomp" ought to be retitled "Casa Loma Gallop." With a tune suggesting "California, Here I Come," the musicians break from the gate faster than forty-niners answering the Gold Rush. What's the house-on-fire hurry? Was the band bus double-parked? Or had the CLO returned from its Mexican tour with a nasty collective case of Montezuma's Revenge, lending the performance its gastrointestinal urgency? Whatever the explanation, anyone foolhardy enough to try dancing to this 6-minute chart compressed into 2:42 would collapse of exhaustion long before the finish line.