Johnny Favourite Swing Orchestra

Johnny Favourite Swing Orchestra was a Canadian swing revival band, active in the late 1990s. Formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, by jazz singer Stuart "Johnny Favourite" Bastow, the band released its debut album The Life Desire independently in 1997. Other band members included John Wesley Chisholm, Wes Mackey Jr., Colin Hudson, Pete Johnston, Matt Myer, Craig Sheppard, "Hound Dog" Dave Fitzgerald, Eric Landry, David Christensen, Dawn Hatfield, and Andrew Killawee. They won an East Coast Music Award for Best Jazz Group in 1998, and signed to Universal Records that year. Soon afterward, however, Chisholm left the band after the birth of his second child; he subsequently received two Genie Award nominations, for both Best Original Song and Best Original Score, for his work composing music for the film Beefcake. The band's second album, Holiday Romance, was released in fall 1998. By this time the band was a popular touring act, whose live show included original material, jazz standards and covers of classic and hard rock songs by bands such as Led Zeppelin and The Band. They garnered radio and MuchMusic airplay for singles such as "Rootbeer & Licorice" and "We Still Talk". "Rootbeer & Licorice...

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