Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman. It’s hard to know what to say about the “King of Swing.” I first heard him on the clarinet at Capitol Drug Store in Annapolis, Maryland, in the 1970s. My boss and the store’s owner and pharmacist, Buddy Levy, loved jazz, and especially Benny Goodman. Benny’s recording career began nearly 50 years earlier, in 1926, with the Ben Pollack Orchestra. He first recorded under his own name in 1928. The recordings below span the first 40 years of his career, from the 1920s through the 1950s. For a detailed description of his long and influential career, see Wikipedia.

The Recordings

Limehouse Blues
	Group:	Sextet
	Label:	Okeh	Matrix Number:	Okeh (6486)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	October 28, 1941
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If I Had You
	Group:	Sextet
	Label:	Okeh	Matrix Number:	Okeh (6486)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	October 28, 1941
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Dinah
	Group:	Benny Goodman Quartet
	Label:	HMV	Matrix Number:	HMV (B.8503)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	June 26, 1936
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Exactly Like You
	Group:	Benny Goodman Quartet
	Label:	HMV	Matrix Number:	HMV (B.8503)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	June 26, 1936
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Lady Be Good
	Group:	Benny Goodman Trio
	Label:	RCA Victor	Matrix Number:	RCA Victor (40-0107)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	April, 1945
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After You've Gone
	Group:	Benny Goodman Trio
	Label:	RCA Victor	Matrix Number:	RCA Victor (40-0107)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	April, 1945
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It's Been So Long
	Group:	Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
	Label:	Victor	Matrix Number:	Victor (25425)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	January 24, 1936
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	Notes:	This is the delightful ‘B’ side to the fantastic “Goody-Goody”
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Goody Goody
	Group:	Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
	Label:	Victor	Matrix Number:	Victor (25245)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	January 24, 1936
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	Notes:	This is the first recorded version of our perennial favorite, “Goody Goody” Helen Ward is the vocalist and has such a great delivery! Who knew there were so many different ways of emphasizing the title words?
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One O'Clock Jump
	Group:	Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
	Label:	Columbia	Matrix Number:	Columbia (B-8203)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	1956
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	Notes:	Written by Count Basie. This version really swings.
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Moonglow & Down South Camp Meetin'
	Group:	Benny Goodman Quartet & Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
	Label:	Columbia	Matrix Number:	Columbia (B-8203)
	Record Type:	Double sided 7 inch 45 RPM
	Date Recorded:	1956
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The Wang Wang Blues
	Group:	Benny Goodman and his Sextet
	Label:	Columbia	Matrix Number:	Columbia (36723)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	March 10, 1942
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Rose Room
	Group:	Benny Goodman and his Sextet
	Label:	Columbia	Matrix Number:	Columbia (36720)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	October 2, 1939
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Poor Butterfly
	Group:	Benny Goodman and his Sextet
	Label:	Columbia	Matrix Number:	Columbia (36722)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	April 10, 1940
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I Found a New Baby
	Group:	Benny Goodman and his Sextet
	Label:	Columbia	Matrix Number:	Columbia (36721)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	January 15, 1941
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Grand Slam
	Group:	Benny Goodman and his Sextet
	Label:	Columbia	Matrix Number:	Columbia (36722)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	April 16, 1940
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Flying Home
	Group:	Benny Goodman and his Sextet
	Label:	Columbia	Matrix Number:	Columbia (36721)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	October 2, 1939
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As Long As I Live
	Group:	Benny Goodman and his Sextet
	Label:	Columbia	Matrix Number:	Columbia (36723)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	November 7, 1940
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Air Mail Special
	Group:	Benny Goodman and his Sextet
	Label:	Columbia	Matrix Number:	Columbia (36720)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	March 13, 1941
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Let's Dance
	Group:	Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
	Label:	Columbia	Matrix Number:	Columbia (35301)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	October 24, 1939
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Boy Meets Horn
	Group:	Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
	Label:	Columbia	Matrix Number:	Columbia (35301)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	August 11, 1939
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Shirt Tail Stomp
	Group:	Benny Goodman and his Boys
	Label:	Brunswick	Matrix Number:	Brunswick (80030)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	June 4, 1928
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	Notes:	This is a re-issue of the original 1928 recording.
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Blue
	Group:	Benny Goodman and his Boys
	Label:	Brunswick	Matrix Number:	Brunswick (80030)
	Record Type:	Double sided 10 inch 78 RPM
	Date Recorded:	June 4, 1928
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	Notes:	This is a re-issue of the original June 1928 recording.
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