BENNY GOODMAN
Current Episode
SSRH 823
March 14, 2026
BENNY GOODMAN
1941 – PART 1
Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
Benny Goodman Sextet
Columbia Recording Sessions
Tuesday, January 14, 1941 – New York
Wednesday, January 15, 1941 – New York
Tuesday, January 21, 1941 – New York
Tuesday, January 28, 1941 – New York
Tuesday, March 4, 1941 – New York
Thursday, March 13, 1941 – New York
Wednesday, June 11, 1941 – New York
Friday, August 15, 1941 – Chicago
Wednesday, August 20, 1941 – Chicago
Thursday, September 25, 1941 – New York
Thursday, October 2, 1941 – New York
Monday, February 24, 1941
7:30-8:00 p.m.
What’s New (Old Gold Program)
NBC Radio City
New York, New York
(NBC-Blue) (WJZ)
Broadcast Parts
Sunday, August 10, 1941
11:05-11:30 p.m.
Panther Room
Hotel Sherman
Chicago, Illinois
(NBC-Blue) (WENR)
Sustaining Broadcast
Playlist
(20Aug41) (CCO 3980-2, Unissued) Clarinet A La King (Eddie Suater arrangement) (4Mar41) (CO 29863-2, Unissued) Take It (Margie Gibson arrangement), (CO 29865-1, Columbia 36684) Solo Flight (14Jan41) (Jimmy Mundy arrangement) (CO 29503-1, Columbia 35397) I Hear A Rhapsody (Helen Forrest, vocal)(Eddie Sauter arrangement) (28Jan41) (CO-29578-1, Columbia 35962) Perfidia (Helen Forrest, vocal (21Jan41) (CO 29529-2, Unissued) I’m Not Complainin’ (Eddie Sauter arrangement) (24Feb41) Frenesi, The Moon Won’t Talk (Helen Forrest, vocal), Yours (Helen Forrest, vocal), Gone With What Draft, Let The Doorknob Hitcha’ (14Jan41) (CO 29502-1, Columbia 35962) Let the Doorknob Hitcha’ (Cootie Williams, vocal) (Margie Gibson arrangement) (15Jan41) (CO-29513-1, Columbia 35938) On The Alamo (CO-29519-1, Columbia 35938) Gone With What Draft (13Mar41) (CO-29942-1, Unissued Test) A Smooth One (11Jun41) (CO 30648-1, Unissued) Tuesday At Ten (Skip Martin arrangement) (10Aug41) Let’s Dance (opening theme), The Count (Mel Powell arrangement), Time Was (Tommy Taylor, vocal), Clarinet A La King (Eddie Sauter arrangement), Soft As Spring (Helen Forrest, vocal), Perfidia (Helen Forrest, vocal), Caprice XXIV Paganini (Skip Martin arrangement), Anything (Tommy Taylor, vocal), A Smooth One (Orchestra – not Sextet) (to program close) (20Aug41) (CCO-3951-1, Unissued) The Birth Of The Blues (Eddie Sauter arrangement) (15Aug41) Elmer’s Tune (21Sep41) (CO-31363-1, Unissued) How Deep Is The Ocean (Peggy Lee, vocal) (Eddie Sauter arrangement), (CO-31367-2, Okeh 6474) Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love) (Peggy Lee, vocal) (Mel Powell arrangement) (CO 31364-1, V-Disc 425-A, Navy 205-A) The Earl (Mel Powell arrangement) (2Oct41) (CO 21402-2, Unissued) I’m Here (Mel Powell arrangement)
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