Description
TitleSustaining Radio Broadcast Airchecks (Side 1)
Date Created1936-01-06-1936-03-18
GenreJazz
GenreRadio airchecks
Note(s)Connor DR (Donald R.) Benny Goodman : Listen to His Legacy. Scarecrow Press; 1988, pages 55-57.
Note(s)This project was supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Table of ContentsBGR0046-S1
SUSTAINING RADIO BROADCAST, NBC RADIO NETWORK; 6 January 1936, Joseph Urban Room, Congress Hotel, Chicago; Personnel as 23 December 1935: BG, clt; Nate Kazebier, tpt, Joe Harris, tbn; Dick Clark, ts; Jess Stacy, p; Allan Reuss, g; Harry Goodman, b; Gene Krupa, d.
0:09: Let’s Dance (theme)
1:00: Blue Skies (& intro) (arr FH)
4:43: With All My Heart - voc Helen Ward (& intro)
7:37: Walk, Jenny, Walk (arr HH) (& intro)
9:53: Rosetta (arr FH) (& intro)
12:28: Bugle Call Rag (arr DK) (& intro)
15:36: Thanks A Million (& intro)
17:41: Truckin’ - voc Helen Ward (& intro)
20:16: On The Alamo (& intro)
22:55: Eeny Meeny Miney Mo - voc Helen Ward (& intro)
25:22: Madhouse (arr JM) (& intro)
28:29: Let’s Dance/Good-Bye (themes) (& intro)
SUSTAINING RADIO BROADCAST, NBC RADIO NETWORK 20 January 1936, Joseph Urban Room Congress Hotel, Chicago; Personnel as 23 December 1935: BG, clt; Nate Kazebier, tpt, Joe Harris, tbn; Dick Clark, ts; Jess Stacy, p; Allan Reuss, g; Harry Goodman, b; Gene Krupa, d.
29:38: I Feel Like A Feather In The Breeze (prob arr Henri Woode) (& intro)
32:56: I’m Shooting High - voc Helen Ward (arr SM) (& intro)
35:52: Big John Special (arr HH) (& intro)
39:56: Dear Old Southland (arr HH) (& intro)
NOTE: “Stompin’ At The Savoy” included is listed for this date in “BG-OTR.” Thompson’s acetates included an incomplete version, but it was not transcribed to the SB LP. Also played on this broadcast, but not on Thompson’s acetates, were “Let’s Dance” (theme) and “St. Louis Blues.”
SUSTAINING RADIO BROADCAST, NBC Radio Network; 20 January 1936, Joseph Urban Room, Congress Hotel, Chicago; Personnel as 23 December 1935: BG, clt; Nate Kazebier, tpt, Joe Harris, tbn; Dick Clark, ts; Jess Stacy, p; Allan Reuss, g; Harry Goodman, b; Gene Krupa, d.
42:37: Let’s Dance (theme)
43:39: Farewell Blues (arr SM) (& intro)
45:43: I’m Shooting High - voc Helen Ward (arr SM) (& intro)
48:32: Stompin’ At The Savoy (arr ES) (& intro)
51:55: Basin Street Blues - voc Joe Harris (& intro)
54:57: I’m Building Up To An Awful Letdown - voc Helen Ward (& intro)
57:54: Transcontinental (arr David Rose) (& intro)
1:00:49: You Hit The Spot - voc Helen Ward
1:03:40: I Surrender, Dear (& intro)
1:07:54: Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town - voc Helen Ward (arr SM) (& intro)
1:10:33: Honeysuckle Rose (arr SM) - to sign off (& intro)
NOTE: Three broadcasts above were transferred from the master tapes of Bob Thompson’s acetates, from which the respective SB Lp’s were transcribed. Despite comment on “Honeysuckle Rose” for 5 January 1935 broadcast, now think it and version above were arranged by Spud Murphy, not Fletcher Henderson.
CollectionD. Russell Connor Collection of Benny Goodman Audio Recordings
Organization NameRutgers University. Institute of Jazz Studies
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PlaceChicago, Illinois