The Early Years with Benny Goodman (1941-1943)
Elmer’s Tune
E. Albrecht / S. Gallop / D. Jurgens
Recorded 8/15/41, Columbia 36359
I See a Million People (But All I Can See Is You)
Carlisle / Sour
Recorded 8/20/41, Columbia 36379
That’s the Way It Goes
S. Robin / A. Wilder
Recorded 9/25/41, Columbia 36379
Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love)
Cole Porter
Recorded 9/25/41, Okeh 6474
I’ve Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)
Duke Ellington / Paul Francis Webster
Recorded 10/2/41, Columbia 36721
My Old Flame
Sam Coslow / A. Johnston
Recorded 10/2/41, Columbia 36754
How Deep Is the Ocean?
Irving Berlin
Recorded 10/8/41, Columbia 36754
Shady Lady Bird
Hugh Martin / Ralph Blane
Recorded 10/8/41, Columbia 36429
Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
R. Morgan / B. Ellsworth / D. Howard
Recorded 11/13/41, Okeh 6497
Somebody Nobody Loves
S. Miller
Recorded 11/13/41, Okeh 6562
How Long Has This Been Going On?
George and Ira Gershwin
Recorded 11/13/41, Okeh 6544
That Did It, Marie
F. Meadows / I. Higginbotham
Recorded 11/13/41, Okeh 6497
Winter Weather (duet w/ Art Lund)
T. Shapiro
Recorded 11/27/41, Okeh 6516
Everything I Love
Cole Porter
Recorded 11/27/41, Okeh 6516
Not Mine
Johnny Mercer / Victor Schertzinger
Recorded 12/10/41, Columbia 36580
Not a Care in the World
John Latouche / Vernon Duke
Recorded 12/10/41, Columbia CL-523 (LP)
Blues in the Night
Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer
Recorded 12/24/41, Okeh 6553
Where or When
Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart
Recorded 12/24/41, Okeh 6553
On the Sunny Side of the Street
Jimmy McHugh / Dorothy Fields
Recorded 12/24/41, Columbia 36617
The Lamp of Memory (Incertidumbre)
Unknown
Recorded 1/15/42, OK 6580
If You Build a Better Mousetrap (duet w/ Art Lund)
Unknown
Recorded 1/15/42, Columbia 36580
My Little Cousin
Unknown
Recorded 2/5/42, Okeh 6606
The Way You Look Tonight
Jerome Kern / Dorothy Fields
Recorded 3/10/42, Columbia 36594
I Threw a Kiss in the Ocean
Irving Berlin
Recorded 3/12/42, Okeh 6652
We’ll Meet Again
R. Parker / H. Charles
Recorded 3/12/42, Okeh 6644
Full Moon (Noche de Luna)
Russell / Curiel / Odette
Recorded 3/12/42, Okeh 6652
All I Need Is You
Davis / DeRose / Parish
Recorded 3/14/42, Columbia 36617
Why Don’t You Do Right?
Joe McCoy
Recorded 7/27/42, Columbia 36652
August 24, 1941: NBC sustaining broadcast, Chicago
Daddy
September 11, 1941: Mutual sustaining broadcast
When the Sun Comes Out (LP: Honeysuckle Rose 5004)
September 13, 1941: Matinee at the Meadowbrook, CBS
It’s So Peaceful in the Country
September 13 or 20, 1941: Matinee at the Meadowbrook, CBS
I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire
September 16, 1941: Mutual sustaining broadcast
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (LP: Honeysuckle Rose 5004)
September 17, 1941: CBS sustaining broadcast
I See a Million People
September 20, 1941: Matinee at the Meadowbrook, CBS
It’s So Peaceful in the Country
September 27, 1941: Matinee at the Meadowbrook, CBS
That’s the Way It Goes
October 4, 1941: Matinee at the Meadowbrook, CBS
Soft As Spring (LP: Sunbeam 158)
October 26, 1941: Fitch Bandwagon, NBC
The Shrine of St. Cecilia (LP: Sunbeam 158)
October 27, 1941: Sustaining broadcast (network unknown)
The Man I Love
I’ve Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)
November 1, 1941: Mutual sustaining broadcast
That Did It, Marie (LP: Sunbeam 158)
November 7, 1941: Mutual sustaining broadcast
More Than You Know
Why Don’t We Do This More Often?
November 13, 1941: Mutual sustaining broadcast
Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
November 14, 1941: Spotlight Bands, Mutual
Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love)
November 22, 1941: CBS sustaining broadcast
Winter Weather (duet w/ Art Lund)
November 29, 1941: Mutual sustaining broadcast
Ev’rything I Love
December 2, 1941: CBS sustaining broadcast
How Long Has This Been Going On?
December 5, 1941: Spotlight Bands, Mutual
Ev’rything I Love
December 6, 1941: Mutual sustaining broadcast
Ev’rything I Love
December 9, 1941: CBS sustaining broadcast
Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
November/December 1941: Sustaining broadcasts
Winter Weather (duet w/ Art Lund; CBS)
On the Sunny Side of the Street (Mutual)
January 1, 1942: Spotlight Bands, Mutual
Blues in the Night (LP: Sunbeam 158)
January 20, 1942: CBS sustaining broadcast
Blues in the Night
How Do You Do Without Me?
January 24, 1942: CBS sustaining broadcast
Blues in the Night
February 3, 1942: CBS sustaining broadcast
Somebody Nobody Loves
February 6, 1942: Mutual sustaining broadcast
My Little Cousin
February 14, 1942: CBS sustaining broadcast
Blues in the Night
February 14, 1942: Mutual sustaining broadcast
How Long Has This Been Going On?
February 17, 1942: Sustaining broadcast (network unknown)
Skylark
Ev’rything I Love
March 2, 1942: Spotlight Bands, Mutual
We’ll Meet Again
March 5, 1942: Sustaining broadcast (network unknown)
My Little Cousin
The Lamp of Memory (Incertidumbre)
Mandy Is Two
January-March, 1942: CBS sustaining broadcasts
Blues in the Night
Not Mine
Somebody Nobody Loves
That Did It, Marie
May 11, 1942: Sustaining broadcast (network unknown)
We’ll Meet Again
October 1942: Sustaining broadcasts (networks unknown)
Blues in the Night
Cow-Cow Boogie
October 19, 1942: CBS sustaining broadcast
Cow-Cow Boogie (LP: Jazz Society AA510)
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition (LP: Jazz Society AA510)
November 12, 1942: CBS sustaining broadcast
Mr. Five By Five
I Had the Craziest Dream
December 3, 1942: Sustaining broadcast (network unknown)
Why Don’t You Do Right?
Late-1942/early-1943: Sustaining broadcasts (networks unknown)
Why Don’t You Do Right?
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City
That Soldier of Mine
February 13, 1943: Spotlight Bands, Blue Network
As Time Goes By
February 28, 1943: Sustaining broadcast (network unknown)
I Love a Piano
February/March, 1943: Armed Forces Radio Service broadcast
I Don’t Believe in Rumors
Why Don’t You Do Right? (LP: Swing House 46)
I Love a Piano (LP: Swing House 46)
March 13, 1943: CBS sustaining broadcast
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
March 20, 1943: CBS sustaining broadcast
Slender, Tender and Tall