Episode 46: Better Days #6 – The Best of Benny Goodman
Danny Lane's Music Museum
English - January 03, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMusic band jazz swing jukebox albumoriented oldies Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Benny Goodman was a jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing". In the mid-1930s, Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in the United States. ***
This episode of Better Days includes "Moonglow", which became a #1 hit and the Top Ten hit "Bugle Call Rag". ***
Goodman led one of the regular bands for the radio program Let's Dance, a Saturday night radio music program broadcast by NBC in the mid-1930s. ***
Goodman was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1986, the same year as The Rolling Stones. After winning polls as best jazz clarinetist, Goodman was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1957. ***
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*** You’ll hear:
Bugle Call Rag *** One O'Clock Jump *** And the Angels Sing (with Martha Tilton, vocal and Ziggy Elman, trumpet solo) *** Blue Room *** Stompin' At The Savoy *** Jersey Bounce ***
Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing) (with Gene Krupa, drums) *** Gotta Be This Or That (with Benny Goodman, vocal) *** Life Goes To A Party *** King Porter Stomp *** Air Mail Special *** You Turned The Tables On Me (with Helen Ward, vocal) *** Wang Wang Blues *** Why Don't You Do Right? (with Miss Peggy Lee, vocal) *** Don't Be That Way *** If Dreams Come True *** Taking A Chance On Love [Reached #1 on the Best Seller chart on 6/12/43 - Lasted 3 wks] (with Helen Forrest, vocal) *** Avalon *** Memories Of You *** Let's Dance *** All by Benny Goodman & His Orchestra