1944-1945

Benny Goodman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 18, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Melodie Jazz Classic
• ASIN: B0001LJB9O
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #673,069 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. After You've Gone

2. Goodbye Sue

3. There'll Be a Jubilee

4. These Foolish Things

5. Hallelujah

6. Sweet Georgia Brown

7. Sheik of Araby

8. Rose Room

9. Just One of Those Things

10. Rachel's Dream

11. Let's Fall in Love

12. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye

13. After You've Gone

14. Only Another Boy and Girl

15. Rachel's Dream

16. Only Another Boy and Girl

17. After You've Gone

18. Slipped Disc

19. Oomph Fah Fah

20. She's Funny That Way

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars A New Goodman Sextet Emerges, April 14, 2010

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This review is from: 1944-1945 (Audio CD)

The Musician's Recording Strike of 1942-44 was still in effect where this CD begins, a live 1944 performance by Goodman with an all-star band, featuring the great lady songbird, Mildred Bailey, and the soon-to-be big hitmaker, Perry Como. No commercial recordings yet, but the Armed Forces V-Disc program was still in effect, and continued after World War II ended. In 1943, Decca and Capitol records gave in to the Musicians Unions' demands, and slowly started recording again, but RCA Victor, and Goodman's label, Columbia Records, held out until November, 1944. When the ban was finally lifted, Goodman hurried into the recording studio, with his small groups, and girl singers, Peggy Mann and Jane Harvey, heard here. Then in 1945 came another high point in Goodman's career: his new Sextet, that featured Red Norvo on vibraphone, Slam Stewart on bass, either Teddy Wilson, or Mel Powell on piano, Mike Bryan on guitar, and a highly underrated drummer named Morey Feld. Goodman's Sextet Session 78rpm album would prove to be the #1 selling album at years end. Instant classics, all of them: After You've Gone, Slipped Disc, Omph Fah Fah, etc!