Harry James-skinny waist, skinny belt, full-cut cotton/wool slacks with pleats and cuffs, slicked back hair, clean shaven. The classic and best fashion look man will ever have. You cannot outdo perfection.
@@peterlogan6316 All of those drummers must have been dripping with sweat at the end of the night. You wonder how they can keep up with the much energy night after night, year after year. I hope it wasn't drugs.
How remarkable that this version of “Sing, Sing, Sing“, written by Louis Prima and brilliantly arrange for Benny Goodman’s Orchestra by Jimmy Mundy, is almost 90 years old! And its incessant devilish beat still feels modern, or even ahead of its time. It still digs deep into our souls, and brings up primordial emotions, and a sense of a battling victory! Not to mention being magnificently sexual! As a trumpeter, I always felt sorry for the third trumpet in this famous filmed performance, who obviously forgot that he still had his straight mute in during the performance, and quickly pulled it off and tucked it away, hoping no one could see it! He doesn’t have it in the very beginning, but for the life of me, I cannot come up with any reason why he would have put a straight mute in the middle of the performance, and then take it out! I’ve actually played this arrangement and l remember that printed at the very top of the trumpet sheet music is: “farti saltare le cervella!”
It might be the band did several takes for the video version and pieced together those takes for the final cut at the "instrumental breaks". Just a guess.
Perhaps the most exhilarating and creative pieces of all time. There's not one rock star who wouldn't be amazed at this performance. It's a frenzy! Even the great Ginger Baker was amazed at Gene. What a performance? Almost astounding.
My dad saw this band way back when. He loved sharing the Carnegie Hall concert with me. I love the energy and players and the great memories of my father whenever I hear these guys.
You can see the edit from different takes at 1:33. Watch the difference in Krupa's hairstyle during Harry James' solo. When the solo is completed at 1:59, the film is edited back to the original take.
You forget how young these guys were. Most of them were mid 20s and they were doing what they absolutely loved. Benny was known as a very strict taskmaster. He kept these guys on the straight and narrow. you never showed up drunk for a performance or you were out. His band members called the looks he gave them when he was angry was 'The Ray' They said they would just shrivel when he looked at them with 'the ray'. Check out Zoot Sims on sax. Another great musician.
FABULOUS!!!!!! Loved seeing Gene Krupa's machine gun rhythms. How great is it to see the musicians tapping out the beat and smiling throughout the performance. They just let us into their intimate world of beautiful and intricate sounds.
I thought the same thing, that it just wasn't some song they had to play, they were really into it. Then the camera pans over Gene's face and he's smiling cause he knows whats coming after his solo, Gene is gonna cut loose. Thats magic right there!!!
It wasn't ever the same song twice! Wasn't supposed to be. Goodman's solo here is better, more interesting, than the one he produced in the Carnegie Hall recording- usually it was, I never understood that one. The rest of the Carnegie performance is just so good nobody much notices! This very short version is not bad- cut Harry James off a bit, though.
... but the Carnegie version was already out of the "line-up" for this evening and they played for their own and the audiences joy - some parts of the CH version of Sing Sing Sing are simply magic .... remember only Jess Stacy at the piano - this is such a dreamy and (yes) magic solo (gently underlined by the driving beat of Krupa) - oh man, I think I will listen to this right now ;-)
As an aside, my best school chum Dave and I went to see the Benny Goodman Story around 1956. The high light was Sing Sing Sing with Krupa. Dave was enthralled by Krupa’s technique and set about trying to buy the record. He discovered the only one available was the 1938 version at Carnegie Hall. It was a 12-inch Shellac, Side 1 & 2. Costing £15 and only available in the US. Plus, postage (by sea) it came to about £20. An arm and a leg for that time. Eventually it arrived and with a grand opening ceremony, he set it spinning at 78 rpm. With super mono sound over Dave’s 3-foot-tall speaker, belting out at 10 watts. (Average portable radio now does about 40w). Absolutely great! Dave took it off the turntable and placed it on a window chair. It so happened that his girl friend was just arriving and he looked out the front room window, kneeling on the chair. More precisely on his newly arrived Shellac. In a second, we had a cracked Shellac! Benny’s band was reduced to 50% x 2.
Absolutely TERRIFIC! Back in the day when IF you were looking down, it was at your watch or to check your shoes, what a time it must have been to hear such music live and dance to it! =golly
This is the most clear version I have seeing. Excellent & I wish I could be there. The very best and probably something we won't get to experience live. Thank you to the wonderful person putting this in.
Do yourself a favor and turn this up loud while you listen. The greatest sound I ever heard was being in the middle of a big band, performing with them.
Gene set his stix afire at the end! Hahaha! Probably the fastest snare drumming ever. He was an animal on drums,,, and with such a small drum kit too!!!! Number 1 !!!!
Gene played Tom Toms all through the whole song, even when Harry James was standing up doing his trumpet part or when Benny did his clarinet part. He never once broke into a swing beat using the hi hats or cymbal.
Watching this, I had such a strange thought. Did these guys really exist? Then. Of course they did! But for a minute there...in our weird Covid 19 world, I felt the fabric a little ripped. Gene. Benny. The rest of the band. Perfection.
Gene Krupa is considered the father of the modern day drum set. Working with the manufacturers of both cymbals and drums. So pretty much everything you see up there today, he had a role in getting it there. I can not get enough of him and Buddy Rich.
He was fine with the Slingerland kit he had. The set size doesn't make a bit of difference if the drummer can't play. A good drummer could sound good on anything (except cheap garbage can lid cymbals).
He's playing a set of late '30s Slingerland Radio Kings, which, to this day, are some of the most sought after and best sounding drums ever made, with real calfskin heads of course, and a set of hand-hammered Zildjian cymbals to go with them. He didn't need better or more drums. Both his drumming and his drums sounded phenomenal and always will.
That bit at 0:32 always makes me want to sing "It's the story of a very unfortunate coloured man, who got 'rested down in old Hong Kong", the first two lines from Hong Kong Blues by Hoagy Carmichael. It's a very close match for melody!
Christopher Jones Well there's not much subtlety in this anywhere, but if you mean from Gene, yeah, that's one of scores of things I love about his playing, every section is identifiably changed up. Love him!
To answer a few questions here that is harry james on first chair with ziggy elman next to him and the movie was holiday hotel. I only know this cause i own it. This a great great music
They did a great transfer on "the Gene Krupa Story" starring Sal Mineo. While there were a few great drummers back then, it was Gene and Buddy who made the drums the solo instruments they are now.
I love this song and the performers. However, I think this clip was taken from a movie called "Hollywood Hotel" I could be wrong. If I am can some one correct me? I have the full clip, which is a tad over 5 minutes long. But I've not found it on RUclips for over a year.
I find it a little ironic that, as a Chick Singer of small notice, my favorite jazz piece is this instrumental one called Sing sing sing. And nobody does. But oboy how it do get my feet a hoppin. Thank you for the video.
The Carnegie Hall recording is my favorite live recording of all time. Hearing 3 minutes instead of 13 is disappointing. Hahaha. But still great, and needed for the television marketing of the time.
Sing Sing Sing was a featured "playalong" at all the Club Haney parties in the '70s, '80s' and '90s ! :) P.S. The version seen here is from a 1937 movie.
Harry James-skinny waist, skinny belt, full-cut cotton/wool slacks with pleats and cuffs, slicked back hair, clean shaven. The classic and best fashion look man will ever have. You cannot outdo perfection.
What about socks with sandals? Ok never mind. Harry and Gene are beasts, even with the ascot ties.
@@Pharoset Harry James is the trumpet player who stands up to do the solo at 1:33.
Yeah, great style for the whole band. Gene's hair was on its own, though.
@@peterlogan6316 All of those drummers must have been dripping with sweat at the end of the night. You wonder how they can keep up with the much energy night after night, year after year. I hope it wasn't drugs.
@@peterlogan6316 Gene's hair is the best hair in the band by far!
This was the "Freebird" for my grandparents.
OMG ........Yes !!!!
Dietpepsivanilla that is hilarious and so true. Haaaa!
How remarkable that this version of “Sing, Sing, Sing“, written by Louis Prima and brilliantly arrange for Benny Goodman’s Orchestra by Jimmy Mundy, is almost 90 years old!
And its incessant devilish beat still feels modern, or even ahead of its time. It still digs deep into our souls, and brings up primordial emotions, and a sense of a battling victory! Not to mention being magnificently sexual! As a trumpeter, I always felt sorry for the third trumpet in this famous filmed performance, who obviously forgot that he still had his straight mute in during the performance, and quickly pulled it off and tucked it away, hoping no one could see it! He doesn’t have it in the very beginning, but for the life of me, I cannot come up with any reason why he would have put a straight mute in the middle of the performance, and then take it out! I’ve actually played this arrangement and l remember that printed at the very top of the trumpet sheet music is: “farti saltare le cervella!”
It might be the band did several takes for the video version and pieced together those takes for the final cut at the "instrumental breaks". Just a guess.
I don't know how anyone can watch this without shaking their heads with HUGE grin.
The Drumming is the star of this arrangement 👍
Perhaps the most exhilarating and creative pieces of all time. There's not one rock star who wouldn't be amazed at this performance. It's a frenzy! Even the great Ginger Baker was amazed at Gene. What a performance? Almost astounding.
Almost??????
I can't describe the joy I feel watching this..Gene....hero.
Krupa...James...Goodman...it don't get better than that.
I still got the12" 78 of this. It was the first record I bought
The first couple notes of Benny's solo are brilliant!
Oh to have been alive then! The music was incredible.
I was born ten years too late. Rich was great but he seemed to have an arrogance about him I never liked. Krupa the king.
I was a drummer in a 60's garage band and Gene Krupa was always my hero. The great ones always make it look so easy!
My dad saw this band way back when. He loved sharing the Carnegie Hall concert with me. I love the energy and players and the great memories of my father whenever I hear these guys.
You can see the edit from different takes at 1:33. Watch the difference in Krupa's hairstyle during Harry James' solo. When the solo is completed at 1:59, the film is edited back to the original take.
It's amazing what Gene Krupa could do with such a small drum kit.
You forget how young these guys were. Most of them were mid 20s and they were doing what they absolutely loved. Benny was known as a very strict taskmaster. He kept these guys on the straight and narrow. you never showed up drunk for a performance or you were out. His band members called the looks he gave them when he was angry was 'The Ray' They said they would just shrivel when he looked at them with 'the ray'. Check out Zoot Sims on sax. Another great musician.
One word - superb
WE WILL NEVER SEE THIS TALENT AGAIN
Wait just a minute...no autotune...no overdubbing...no prerecording...no synths...you mean, just talent?!
This was great band of real musicians. Nothing like it ever since.
You can't beat this
What performers!! A classic.
FABULOUS!!!!!! Loved seeing Gene Krupa's machine gun rhythms. How great is it to see the musicians tapping out the beat and smiling throughout the performance. They just let us into their intimate world of beautiful and intricate sounds.
I thought the same thing, that it just wasn't some song they had to play, they were really into it. Then the camera pans over Gene's face and he's smiling cause he knows whats coming after his solo, Gene is gonna cut loose. Thats magic right there!!!
It wasn't ever the same song twice! Wasn't supposed to be. Goodman's solo here is better, more interesting, than the one he produced in the Carnegie Hall recording- usually it was, I never understood that one. The rest of the Carnegie performance is just so good nobody much notices! This very short version is not bad- cut Harry James off a bit, though.
Krupa was the original drum god
... but the Carnegie version was already out of the "line-up" for this evening and they played for their own and the audiences joy - some parts of the CH version of Sing Sing Sing are simply magic .... remember only Jess Stacy at the piano - this is such a dreamy and (yes) magic solo (gently underlined by the driving beat of Krupa) - oh man, I think I will listen to this right now ;-)
I like the clothes of the performers. Causual but yet wellgroomed.
Love the way Krup switches back and forth between trad and matched grip depeding on what he needs the drums to sound
Best video quality yet for that special date that brought a great version of "Sing, Sing, Sing". Gene Krupa rocks as
Benny and his band swing.
If only I lived during this era. Music was magic back then. It elevated people beyond the petty divide that exists today.
As an aside, my best school chum Dave and I went to see the Benny Goodman Story around 1956. The high light was Sing Sing Sing with Krupa. Dave was enthralled by Krupa’s technique and set about trying to buy the record.
He discovered the only one available was the 1938 version at Carnegie Hall. It was a 12-inch Shellac, Side 1 & 2. Costing £15 and only available in the US. Plus, postage (by sea) it came to about £20. An arm and a leg for that time. Eventually it arrived and with a grand opening ceremony, he set it spinning at 78 rpm. With super mono sound over Dave’s 3-foot-tall speaker, belting out at 10 watts. (Average portable radio now does about 40w).
Absolutely great! Dave took it off the turntable and placed it on a window chair. It so happened that his girl friend was just arriving and he looked out the front room window, kneeling on the chair. More precisely on his newly arrived Shellac. In a second, we had a cracked Shellac!
Benny’s band was reduced to 50% x 2.
Absolutely TERRIFIC! Back in the day when IF you were looking down, it was at your watch or to check your shoes, what a time it must have been to hear such music live and dance to it! =golly
This is the most clear version I have seeing. Excellent & I wish I could be there. The very best and probably something we won't get to experience live. Thank you to the wonderful person putting this in.
Do yourself a favor and turn this up loud while you listen. The greatest sound I ever heard was being in the middle of a big band, performing with them.
Increíble interpretación, muchas gracias por compartir, desearía que el video fuera de la presentación completa
With ONE microphone, AMAZING sound
Bliss....absolute bliss....
Drummers have always been in their own world and always will be. God Bless them!
Gene set his stix afire at the end! Hahaha! Probably the fastest snare drumming ever. He was an animal on drums,,, and with such a small drum kit too!!!! Number 1 !!!!
Maybe it was all the heroin in his body.
Yes Gene felt every beat and drum beat,as though it was torn from his body..Fabulous.Mysterioso100, no need for smutty comments like that.!
Gene never used heroin. Stop spreading falsehoods.
he had a bump of coke every now and then, he even said so later on in life.
As far as I know Gene never admitted to doing cocaine. Please give sources for this claim.
This song is way ahead of its time, Benny was a genius,he let Krupa have free range on this one.
Gene played Tom Toms all through the whole song, even when Harry James was standing up doing his trumpet part or when Benny did his clarinet part. He never once broke into a swing beat using the hi hats or cymbal.
He plays cymbal at very end = power thru contrast
Yes, and he enhanced James' solo (didn't step on it).
Gene Krupa WOW!!!!!!!!!
Gene .... the King !!!!!
Watching this, I had such a strange thought. Did these guys really exist? Then. Of course they did! But for a minute there...in our weird Covid 19 world, I felt the fabric a little ripped. Gene. Benny. The rest of the band. Perfection.
And they DANCING IN their seats-cool!
Could you imagine if gene krupa had a modern day drum set one can only imagine the possibilities.
Been Krupa, for all intents and purposes, invented the modern drum kit.
Gene Krupa is considered the father of the modern day drum set. Working with the manufacturers of both cymbals and drums. So pretty much everything you see up there today, he had a role in getting it there. I can not get enough of him and Buddy Rich.
He was fine with the Slingerland kit he had. The set size doesn't make a bit of difference if the drummer can't play. A good drummer could sound good on anything (except cheap garbage can lid cymbals).
He's playing a set of late '30s Slingerland Radio Kings, which, to this day, are some of the most sought after and best sounding drums ever made, with real calfskin heads of course, and a set of hand-hammered Zildjian cymbals to go with them. He didn't need better or more drums. Both his drumming and his drums sounded phenomenal and always will.
Benny Goodman was so great!!!
That bit at 0:32 always makes me want to sing "It's the story of a very unfortunate coloured man,
who got 'rested down in old Hong Kong", the first two lines from Hong Kong Blues by Hoagy Carmichael. It's a very close match for melody!
As good as it gets!
It's really good music. It's melody to my eardrums.
wish this kind of music be heard more ,than those played on the radio today ,my subwoofer just went 😁WOoOOooOOOooFFFFF
Totally, gobsmacking, kickass musicians!
Benny Goodman, Harry James, and Gene Krupa. Doesn't get ANY better.
Certified hood classic
best performance ever
Im in the groove now...
That was amazing! I loved the subtle changes throughout this piece!
Christopher Jones Well there's not much subtlety in this anywhere, but if you mean from Gene, yeah, that's one of scores of things I love about his playing, every section is identifiably changed up. Love him!
Cant get enough, and I never will!
Still famous Gene Krupa, one of the best drummers. Also that's Harry James on lead Trumpet.
I wish they'd played the whole song not just half of it. It's a great recording, and I'm glad it exists. Just wish it was the whole thing
Young guys.
Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Harry James...GADZOOKS!! Fabulous musicians all!!
Look at Krupa go!
As good as it gets.
Amen to that brother!!!
Awesome!
Theyre all so happy
It looks so modern, as if it was just yesterday.
It was.
Brings back great memories, the bands were tops than.
what an awesome combination!!!!!
To answer a few questions here that is harry james on first chair with ziggy elman next to him and the movie was holiday hotel. I only know this cause i own it. This a great great music
drummer1966123 I see. A fellow drummer. What kind of music do you play?
Hollywood Hotel (1937)
The Masters at work!
simply beautiful the music
Truly classic, Krupa was usually CHILLED out, G-d bless em all.
They did a great transfer on "the Gene Krupa Story" starring Sal Mineo. While there were a few great drummers back then, it was Gene and Buddy who made the drums the solo instruments they are now.
That film scarcely does credit to the man, but it's so funny as to be a classic in it's own right. "Go, Gene, Go!" "See Mama? THEY approve!"
2:38 when your mom comes home and finds out that you didn't clean your room
XD
Gene Krupa, the best.
One word.....wow!
Gene the greatest
OMG Gene Krupa!
Makes me want to take up drumming!!!
This is the reason why I started drumming :)
Gene’s floor tom beat here, became the forerunner to a lot of surfing beats in the early 60s.
Harry James on the trumpet solos
👏👏
soooo schön
So coooooool
The man who scream before benny do his solo feel the energy
Before Rock drummers there was Gene Krupa. So many rock drummers today claim his as their idol
Yup
Gene Krupa , Benny Goodman can you ask for anymore?
Perfection...
He does it again!!
I love this song and the performers. However, I think this clip was taken from a movie called "Hollywood Hotel" I could be wrong. If I am can some one correct me? I have the full clip, which is a tad over 5 minutes long. But I've not found it on RUclips for over a year.
I love modern hard rock. But this is proof you don't need electric guitars to rock out!
What Krupa did at the end of this was impossible...but he did it...all single strokes.
i tried to move even fingers alone with this- or the Carnegie Hall finish and cannot keep up.
Drum roll! John Bonham of Led Zeppelin was also influenced from him.
I find it a little ironic that, as a Chick Singer of small notice, my favorite jazz piece is this instrumental one called Sing sing sing. And nobody does. But oboy how it do get my feet a hoppin. Thank you for the video.
Most people don’t know the name of this song, but some people can recognize it.
this version is soooo fast!!
A Young Gene Krupa ☺
I wonder what's going on in someone's mind to dislike this video. Just don't get it. And I really don't want to, by the way.
It was just a mistake I'm sure. No other possible explanation.
the nay sayers must be Buddy Rich fans... hahaha
i do
i hate it
Never AFK999 care to explain why?
Clara Clarinet & I will play this! I never say no to jazz, swing, & big band!
A young Harry James is also in this film.
The Carnegie Hall recording is my favorite live recording of all time. Hearing 3 minutes instead of 13 is disappointing. Hahaha. But still great, and needed for the television marketing of the time.
The "COOLEST Generation" . Bad to the Bone . 😆😆
Sing Sing Sing was a featured "playalong" at all the Club Haney parties in the '70s, '80s' and '90s ! :) P.S. The version seen here is from a 1937 movie.
Its toooooooo damn short i can listening to this for ever
Camden county marching band 2022-2023
This is devil music! Every time I hear this my feet get possessed by demons and start bouncing around all over the place!🙀
hahahahahaha
YES ! I'm going to try to get my young grandson to dance with me, to this.
Slow down, and REPENT, this is smoking pot music, the Gene Krupa way......
you are just lucky or?