Benny Goodman Small Groups -- airchecks 1939-41
I've had this tape about 30 years and the source is unknown, but someone did a fine job of recording these shows, apparently on a quality acetate machine. But these are AM broadcasts, not studio tracks; and acetates, not digital recordings. So they're noisy, ok?
You'll hear some first-class talent here, including
Lionel Hampton, Fletcher Henderson, Johnny Guarnieri, Charlie Christian, Art Bernstein, Nick Fatool, Gene Krupa, Dave Tough, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, and more
I spent 2 days cleaning this up with speed correction and hundreds of manual click repairs for the acetate damage and the lightning storms. I Hope someone likes it.
If you DO like it, I suggest you make sure it's re-seeded every 2 years or so. Otherwise, the bootleggers will become the only source, and they will throw out half of it by selecting the better quality recordings (regardless of performance); they'll destroy the music with hiss-reduction and ham-fisted equalization. They'll delete all the announcements and lose the info we have. It happens every time.
/Lowgen
Feb 2008
cd 1
1- I Got Rhythm Minneapolis 9/39
2- I Got Rhythm (do)
3- Stardust (do)
4- Tea For Two (do)
5- Flying Home Victor Hugo's LA 8/19/39
6- Stardust Camel Caravan 9/2/39
7- Opus 1/2 St Paul 9/23/39
8- Memories Of You (do)
9- Rose Room NY 10/7/39
10- Aint Misbehaving NY 10/14/39 (with Armstrong)
11- AC DC Current (do)
12- Soft Winds 10/4/39
13- Memories Of You 10/23/39
14- Shivers 11/4/39
15- Flying Home 11/6/39
16- Seven Come Eleven 11/25/39
17- AC DC Current (do)
18- AC DC Current 12/2/39
19- Dinah NY 1931
20- Sheik Of Araby (do)
21- Gone With What Wind Coconut Grove LA 3/19/40
22- Sheik Of Araby LA 4/12/40
23- Honeysuckle Rose LA
24- Six Appeal (do)
cd 2
1- AC DC Current (do)
2- Gone With What Wind LA 4/27/40
3- Rose Room Oscar Levant Show 1940
4- Gone With What Wind NYC MSG Dem. convention 1940
5- Flying Home Old Gold Show 2/10/41
6- Breakfast Feud 2/20/41
7- Wholly Cats (do)
8- Six Appeal 3/14/41
9- Wholly Cats 11/9/40
10- Benny's Bugle (do)
11- Honeysuckle Rose (do)
12- Flying Home Carnegie Hall 6/10/39
13- Stardust (do)
14- Chunk, Charlie, Chunk Old Gold Show 3/4/41
15- Wholly Cats (do)
16- Breakfast Feud 4/14/41
17- Chunk, Charlie, Chunk MSG 6/41
18- Breakfast Feud 1/41
19- Haven't Named It Yet 10/39 Hampton's Band
20- Shivers 12/39
21- Song Of The Island 4/9/41
22- Flying Home 5/5/41
23- Air Mail Special 4/28/41
24- Rhythm-A-Ning Minton's 5/41
25- I Found A New Baby