BENNY GOODMAN
THIS WEEK’S EPISODE
SSRH 769
February 22, 2025
BG – ’45 – PART 1
Benny Goodman, his Orchestra, Sextet and Quintet
Columbia Recording Sessions
New York, New York
Sunday, February 4, 1945
Friday, April 27, 1945
September 12, 1945
Second Esquire Jazz Concert
Wednesday, January 17, 1945
11:30 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.
NBC Radio City
New York, New York
(Blue) (WJZ)
Deems Taylor, New York announcer
Danny Kaye and Leonard Feather, Los Angeles announcers
Jack Benny and Beatrice Lille, guests
Coca-Cola Spotlight Bands 778
Thursday, March 15, 1945
9:30-9:55 p.m.
Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
(Blue) (WJZ)
Gil Newsome, announcer
Coca-Cola Spotlight Bands 782
Tuesday, March 20, 1945
9:30-9:55 p.m.
Naval Air Station
Lakehurst, New Jersey
(Blue) (WJZ)
Gil Newsome, announcer
Playlist
(12Sep45) (CO-35190-2, Columbia 36874) My Guy’s Come Back (Liza Morrow, vocal) (4Feb45) (CO-34263-1, Columbia 36817) Slipped Disc (Sextet) (CO-34265-1, Unissued) She’s (He’s) Funny That Way (Sextet) (Jane Harvey, vocal) (CO-34266-[2], Unissued) Body and Soul (Sextet) (17Jan45) Introduction, Air Mail Special (Quintet), Downhearted Blues (Quintet) (Mildred Bailey, vocal), AwarD Presentation to Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo and Teddy Wilson by Beatrice Lille, Jack Benny Comedy Routine, The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise (Quintet), (From Los Angeles) Danny Kaye and Leonard feather introduction, Things Ain’t What They Used To Be (Louis Armstrong from New Orleans and Benny Goodman with Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra) and close (15Mar45) Coca-Cola Signature, Let’s Dance (theme), Frenesi, Ev’ry Time (Jane Harvey, vocal), Sweetheart of All My Dreams (Bob Hayden, vocal), Slipped Disc (Sextet), Close As Pages In A Book (Jane Harvey, vocal), King Porter Stomp, Good-Bye (theme), Coca-Cola Signature (20Mar45) Coca-Cola Signature, Let’s Dance (theme), Spring Song, You Brought A New Kind of Love To Me (Jane Harvey, vocal), Seven Come Eleven, Love Walked In, After You’ve Gone (Quintet), Gotta Be This Or That (Jane Harvey and Benny Goodman, vocal), Good-Bye (theme), Coca-Cola Signature (27Apr45) (Co-36346-7, Unissued) Gotta Be This Or That (Benny Goodman and Trummy Young, vocal)
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