Benny Goodman was probably the most popular musician of the 1930's and 40's and played clarinet until he died. I had the fortune of meeting him at Interlochen International Music Camp in northern Michigan. I was a counselor there one summer as a post college student, right after graduation. He played a concert with his band there. The next morning he was eating breakfast at a table with he camp bigwigs...kids and counselors were coming up to him to shake his hand, exchange a few words and I did the same. There were kids in junior high/high school age from ALL over the country, and all over the world there. Benny seemed very flattered that kids knew who he was and were in awe of his musical history and performance. We should be ashamed of our musical ignorance today. Jazz is an American music of many cultural blends from our country. it sort of started from Ragtime music and other tributaries of music. sing Sing Sing is still used in commercials, and marching band shows etc.
Nice! "Sing, Sing, Sing" is an iconic 20th century American tune. Louis Prima wrote the song in 1936, but Benny Goodman owns it. The legendary Gene Krupa on drums. Did rock drummers copy him? They sure tried. Your Looney Tunes suspicions are correct. Many of us were introduced to these songs watching Daffy Duck et al. Big band swing was the style of the times when many of the old Warner Brothers cartoons were made in the thirties and forties and fifties. When you're ready for more from Benny Goodman also check out "If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight)", "Sing Me a Swing Song (And Let Me Dance)", "Roll 'Em", and "Christopher Columbus".
Benny Goodman deserves credit for having an integrated band. If not the first, his was the first popular band to include African-Americans. IMO, the greatest swing bands were the Count Basie and Duke Ellington Orchestras ("count" and "duke" were stage nicknames). The original, most acrobatic form of swing dancing is the "Lindy Hop" (named for Charles Lindbergh), which was developed at the Savoy and other dancehalls in Harlem.
Find a copy of his "Bugle Call Rag" from somewhere around 1936. It's excellent. Glad you enjoyed this one. It almost demands that you dance to it doesn't it?
There was also Buddy Rich, Chick Webb and others in that category. I met a college professor in music school, was guest instructor, who had played bass for Krupa's Band in the 1950's as a young kid just out of college. One guy joked with him, said "Can I kneel before you and touch your sleeve?" He was a percussion student lol. the professor got a big laugh out of that. The professor responded "I'll have to charge you $25 for that."
Along the same lines the great Glen Miller -- same type of music from the all great Big Band Era -- not only great listening but boy could you ever dance to that!! The drummer was the great Gene Krupa.
This type of jazz is called Swing. It dominated the Big Band Era of the 1930s and early ‘40s. Benny Goodman, the band leader, played clarinet and brilliantly. Gene Krupa played the drums. There are also longer versions that feature a trumpet solo by Harry James. It came out on record in 1936. For some reason, this sounds like a recreation to me rather than the original, partly because it is lacking James’s trumpet solo and a long clarinet solo by Benny. It might be hard to clear the original. You should check out Louis Prima (PREE-MA). He was a hoot. He often sang with Deeley Smith while they were married.
Swing music was at its height in the 1930s and '40s. After WWII it began to change. Some "swing" musicians, like Coltrane and Ellington kept playing jazz. Some, like Bill Haley and Jerry Lee Lewis began playing rock& roll. Then Elvis and Motown came along. After that the British Invasion & rock as we know it.
The Clarke Sisters did this song with lyrics to this song. Totally awesome too. I have both songs. One original album of the Clarke Sisters with this song on it. My dad's original purchase.
Really enjoy your reactions. ❤ Love this type of music. Variations of this music was featured in classic cartoons. (old guy here) That is what I think of when I hear these sounds. That were made by wonderful, frightfully talented people! ❤
The drummer is Gene Krupa. Big bands were hired to play background music on old cartoons, You may have heard Gene's signature style there. He influenced many drummers. He also played for Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and he also led his own band at one time.
This is Big Band music. It was popular, along with The Blues and Jazz, in the 20's, 30's and 40's but started to die down in the 50's when rock started to become more popular on the music scene. But, yes you would definitely have heard this music in the classic cartoons. Disney, Merry Melodies and Warner Brothers cartoons. They were around in that same era of Big Band music.
This song was was in a few movies 🎥: Swing kids with Christian Bale & Robert Sean Leonard ( great movie 🎥) Also in the tv movie 🎥 Tower of terror with Kirsten Dunst and Steve Gutenberg .
Are we having fun yet? Yes indeed. There were no words to the original song, but lots of singers added lyrics, including the Andrews Sisters who were BIG during this same time (think Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy). The big band swing era was great. Another song with similar toe-tapping vibe is Glen Miller Orchestra playing In The Mood.
This is what they were jammin' to during World War II. Check out the Glenn Miller Orchestra "In the Mood." Probably the biggest hit of the whole World War II era.
Of course Rock incorporated this sound . The early Rock bands parents would have this music on the turntable at home and the parents would go to clubs to dance to it. Dance Halls were in every city and these bands toured constantly. This was the sound of the young WW2 generation. We saw these bands on Tv and in films and was the beginning of breaking the segregation barriers. As white musicians would want the Black musicians they loved to be on the bill, and young people wanted to go see them. You will get a kick out of Louis Prima & Keely Smith they were such fun and great performers
ruclips.net/video/0NigiwMtWE0/видео.html here it is. It was the first time jazz was played there. Jazz was considered low class and vulgar. People there listened to Mozart, Beethoven, etc. It was sink or swim to be accepted. They were nervous. The trumpet player(BTW some CRAZY wild solos by him) was quoted as saying, "I feel like a whore in church." The piano player at the end had no solo scheduled. After the solos, Benny pointed to him impromptu and made him play. What you hear is all ad lib. He had had 3 or 4 drinks before the concert(nervous) and did not remember later what he even played.
Apologies: there is a Benny Goodman piece that is so fast and complicated, yet Benny just stands motionless snd his fingers barely moves(so it seems) and the 32second notes just fly out the bell. Amazing piece
Benny was one of the premier bandleaders of this period but the king of them all was probably Glenn Miller. If you haven't already explored his work, he was a master. Moonlight Serenade is his best known hit but all his work is amazing.
Like pretty much everything you listen to, this is a classic! A big band classic, in this case. Iconic for the era. Composed in 1936. Considering your age, you might know this from the movie "Monsters, Inc." (2001).
A ton of swing music, including this, was used in Warner Bros. (Bugs Bunny) cartoons back in the day. You probably heard it there. I know that was my first introduction to it.
Hi ace, you simply got to listen to the 60s The newbeats: Bread and Butter hit' seriously you won't be disappointed! 😂 hi from Canada 🇨🇦 it will astound you' 😂
Orchestras aren't just for classical music. :D If you've watched black and white movies at all, a lot of them have featured famous orchestras like Benny Goodman's.
Commercialism often steals from the great bands and compositions and bastardize them with pieces parts used for movies and commercial gain. Leaving you with incomplete information of your musical heritage.
Thanks for stepping away from the usual list of music most reactors cover these days I have a suggestion for a song and a group no one else has reviewed. It's a very high-quality recording and, honestly, I don't even know what genre it belongs in - but it's easy on the ears. Please check it out! ruclips.net/video/U1zMrdTQsHQ/видео.html&ab_channel=MusicFog
Benny Goodman was probably the most popular musician of the 1930's and 40's and played clarinet until he died. I had the fortune of meeting him at Interlochen International Music Camp in northern Michigan. I was a counselor there one summer as a post college student, right after graduation. He played a concert with his band there. The next morning he was eating breakfast at a table with he camp bigwigs...kids and counselors were coming up to him to shake his hand, exchange a few words and I did the same. There were kids in junior high/high school age from ALL over the country, and all over the world there. Benny seemed very flattered that kids knew who he was and were in awe of his musical history and performance. We should be ashamed of our musical ignorance today. Jazz is an American music of many cultural blends from our country. it sort of started from Ragtime music and other tributaries of music. sing Sing Sing is still used in commercials, and marching band shows etc.
Benny Goodman was known as the "King of Swing" !
Louie Prima was the king of swing, not Benny Goodman
CORRECT!! Benny WAS the "King of Swing"
Nice! "Sing, Sing, Sing" is an iconic 20th century American tune. Louis Prima wrote the song in 1936, but Benny Goodman owns it. The legendary Gene Krupa on drums. Did rock drummers copy him? They sure tried. Your Looney Tunes suspicions are correct. Many of us were introduced to these songs watching Daffy Duck et al. Big band swing was the style of the times when many of the old Warner Brothers cartoons were made in the thirties and forties and fifties. When you're ready for more from Benny Goodman also check out "If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight)", "Sing Me a Swing Song (And Let Me Dance)", "Roll 'Em", and "Christopher Columbus".
I love the Big Band era even though it was before my time. I think Gene Krupa is the drummer.
Swing music is uplifting and joyous! We need more of that these days.
It's big band or swing music but the dance is the jitterbug ❤❤my father taught me when I was a kid ❤❤❤
Fantastic music from the 30’s and the 40’s!
I love it when reactors delve into Big Band/Swing music. So much great stuff to be explored!
Benny Goodman deserves credit for having an integrated band. If not the first, his was the first popular band to include African-Americans. IMO, the greatest swing bands were the Count Basie and Duke Ellington Orchestras ("count" and "duke" were stage nicknames). The original, most acrobatic form of swing dancing is the "Lindy Hop" (named for Charles Lindbergh), which was developed at the Savoy and other dancehalls in Harlem.
Finally, you have a real swing dance song! This is one of the best.
Find a copy of his "Bugle Call Rag" from somewhere around 1936. It's excellent. Glad you enjoyed this one. It almost demands that you dance to it doesn't it?
This was my dad's teenage year kind of music. Yes, it was on the cartoons too,
You should try, "I Got A Gal From Kalamazoo!"
That's Glenn Miller. But YES! Great song.
This was played in a dance sequal in a club scene in the Movie The Mask wiith Jim Carrey.
It was used in "the Mask" I think. It was used in a lot of movies about that era.
Rock drummers consider Gene Krupa the Great Granddaddy of modern drumming.
There was also Buddy Rich, Chick Webb and others in that category. I met a college professor in music school, was guest instructor, who had played bass for Krupa's Band in the 1950's as a young kid just out of college. One guy joked with him, said "Can I kneel before you and touch your sleeve?" He was a percussion student lol. the professor got a big laugh out of that. The professor responded "I'll have to charge you $25 for that."
This beat and melody has been sampled so many times... iconic track bro
Yes, I'm sure it was background music in some old cartoons.
Thanks!
Thank you so much. 😁😁😁
This came on in a bar in Montreal in the 1990's, and the young people had the same reaction you did.
The Big Band Era ! Then Came Rock And Roll ! Elvis Baby ! Lol
Woo-hoo, big band music. ❤❤❤❤❤
Tv commercials, some movies, and even cartoons had this song in them, so you probably heard it in any one of those. 😊😊
Along the same lines the great Glen Miller -- same type of music from the all great Big Band Era -- not only great listening but boy could you ever dance to that!! The drummer was the great Gene Krupa.
If you want to the dancing, in full effect, I recommend ''Burn the Floor!'' You will not be disappointed!
This type of jazz is called Swing. It dominated the Big Band Era of the 1930s and early ‘40s. Benny Goodman, the band leader, played clarinet and brilliantly. Gene Krupa played the drums. There are also longer versions that feature a trumpet solo by Harry James. It came out on record in 1936. For some reason, this sounds like a recreation to me rather than the original, partly because it is lacking James’s trumpet solo and a long clarinet solo by Benny. It might be hard to clear the original.
You should check out Louis Prima (PREE-MA). He was a hoot. He often sang with Deeley Smith while they were married.
The famous Carnegie Hall Concert [January 16, 1938], is probably the best recording of Sing Sing Sing
@@thomastimlin1724 I absolutely agree.
Swing music was at its height in the 1930s and '40s. After WWII it began to change. Some "swing" musicians, like Coltrane and Ellington kept playing jazz. Some, like Bill Haley and Jerry Lee Lewis began playing rock& roll. Then Elvis and Motown came along. After that the British Invasion & rock as we know it.
The Clarke Sisters did this song with lyrics to this song. Totally awesome too. I have both songs. One original album of the Clarke Sisters with this song on it. My dad's original purchase.
it reminds me some of the intro for the old Saturday morning cartoon Johnny quest, especially the drum beat
There is a comedy “1941” about WW2! They used this song 🎶 for the dance scene 😬
Really enjoy your reactions. ❤ Love this type of music. Variations of this music was featured in classic cartoons. (old guy here) That is what I think of when I hear these sounds. That were made by wonderful, frightfully talented people! ❤
It's just soooo cool! ou've probably heard it hundreds of times.
The drummer is Gene Krupa. Big bands were hired to play background music on old cartoons, You may have heard Gene's signature style there. He influenced many drummers. He also played for Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and he also led his own band at one time.
This song has been used in commercials, which is likely where you recall it.
This song has been in many movies and has been used in television commercials background music. I’m sure you heard it before in small doses.
One part at the beginning instantly takes me to Betty White (actually, a stunt double) doing cartwheels at a dance marathon.
You see a movie of this piece. Gene Krupa puts on a show and the rest of the band has its’ own choreography. Great piece of music
This is my alarm tone on my phone....it gets my blood pumping in the morning!
Ace, I think you would be a great jitterbug bc your chair dancing is so smooooth!
Louie Prima , King of Swing, wrote this, and it does have words. There’s also a video, I believe from the 1930’s
This is Big Band music. It was popular, along with The Blues and Jazz, in the 20's, 30's and 40's but started to die down in the 50's when rock started to become more popular on the music scene. But, yes you would definitely have heard this music in the classic cartoons. Disney, Merry Melodies and Warner Brothers cartoons. They were around in that same era of Big Band music.
Let's Goooooooo...!
Keep em coming Ace .
Brilliance never gets Old...
Use to listen to over and over off my Dad's Benny Goodman album. There's an old movie about Benny.
This song was was in a few movies 🎥: Swing kids with Christian Bale & Robert Sean Leonard ( great movie 🎥) Also in the tv movie 🎥 Tower of terror with Kirsten Dunst and Steve Gutenberg .
Love this song from that genre.
Ace you are reacting to this like the youth of that time did! Love it!
I'm glad you enjoyed it.😁😁😁
1930 music,, Big Band Style, Swing in many movies, cartoons, etcetera.
Are we having fun yet? Yes indeed. There were no words to the original song, but lots of singers added lyrics, including the Andrews Sisters who were BIG during this same time (think Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy). The big band swing era was great. Another song with similar toe-tapping vibe is Glen Miller Orchestra playing In The Mood.
That drummer is Mr. Gene Krupa, the greatest of all time.
You need to check out Glenn Miller's "In The Mood". The drum work was like this in the Big Band Era.
very popular oldie but goodie 1930 ,40s era
You got moves young man
Alright there are lyrics. It was written by Louis Prima, and performed by his wife Keeley Smith, as Swing,swing,swing.
This is what they were jammin' to during World War II. Check out the Glenn Miller Orchestra "In the Mood." Probably the biggest hit of the whole World War II era.
You have heard something similar in the Jim Carrey movie, The Mask.
Now take it up a notch Ace, and check out the dance sequence from the movie "Hellzapoppin", with Whitey's Lindy Hoppers!
It's used in a Simpsons episode where Grandpa and Mr Burns were competing for the same woman.
I think Gene Krupa on drums if I recall. Benny on clarinet in front.
Of course Rock incorporated this sound . The early Rock bands parents would have this music on the turntable at home and the parents would go to clubs to dance to it. Dance Halls were in every city and these bands toured constantly. This was the sound of the young WW2 generation. We saw these bands on Tv and in films and was the beginning of breaking the segregation barriers. As white musicians would want the Black musicians they loved to be on the bill, and young people wanted to go see them. You will get a kick out of Louis Prima & Keely Smith they were such fun and great performers
Hi, If you have seen the film The Mask with Jim Carey you will hear a very similar drum beat in the club when he dances with Cameron Diaz.
ruclips.net/video/0NigiwMtWE0/видео.html here it is. It was the first time jazz was played there. Jazz was considered low class and vulgar. People there listened to Mozart, Beethoven, etc. It was sink or swim to be accepted. They were nervous. The trumpet player(BTW some CRAZY wild solos by him) was quoted as saying, "I feel like a whore in church." The piano player at the end had no solo scheduled. After the solos, Benny pointed to him impromptu and made him play. What you hear is all ad lib. He had had 3 or 4 drinks before the concert(nervous) and did not remember later what he even played.
Big Band!!!
I think that's Gene Krupa on drums, his drumming was very distinctive!
Apologies: there is a Benny Goodman piece that is so fast and complicated, yet Benny just stands motionless snd his fingers barely moves(so it seems) and the 32second notes just fly out the bell. Amazing piece
Benny was one of the premier bandleaders of this period but the king of them all was probably Glenn Miller. If you haven't already explored his work, he was a master. Moonlight Serenade is his best known hit but all his work is amazing.
My parents bout me “Benny Goodman Orchestra live at Carnegie Hall” recorded back in 1939. Dad said I played that record to much, I wore it thin.
Listen to the 1938 Carnegie Hall long version of 13 minutes. Such incredible solos that are not in this shortened version.
Like pretty much everything you listen to, this is a classic! A big band classic, in this case. Iconic for the era. Composed in 1936.
Considering your age, you might know this from the movie "Monsters, Inc." (2001).
What a fun reaction, you made me LOL! Glad you enjoyed it.
You would love the movie Swing Kids .
A ton of swing music, including this, was used in Warner Bros. (Bugs Bunny) cartoons back in the day. You probably heard it there. I know that was my first introduction to it.
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Hi ace, you simply got to listen to the 60s The newbeats: Bread and Butter hit' seriously you won't be disappointed! 😂 hi from Canada 🇨🇦 it will astound you' 😂
lt's Big Band Music - Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, etc.
Orchestras aren't just for classical music. :D If you've watched black and white movies at all, a lot of them have featured famous orchestras like Benny Goodman's.
:D @ 1:36 That's a clarinet being played by Benny Goodman himself. The guy in the black suit.
Chicago does a great cover of this song.
This is Big Band music.
Gene Krupa, probably the greatest Drummer of all time!
Must try Judy garland and Streisand singing duets to happy days are here again
This is *SWING*
Gene Krupa was the drummer
The Mask
React to Les Paul and Mary Ford Absolutely Live.
Please check out The Mills Brothers. My favorite is "Opus One". Thanks!
Here is the lyrics, sung by the man who wrote the song: Louis Prima
ruclips.net/video/OobeqoALSt4/видео.htmlsi=4qIFXAc8wRk9wBX4
Your thinking of a older cartoon you saw 😉
Check out Glenn Miller..
Not Benny Goodman...a remake. You want the original from Carnegie Hall 1938,
You need the video. It's dramatic.
Sing, Sing, Sing has been used in tons of screwball comedies and cartoons.
Commercialism often steals from the great bands and compositions and bastardize them with pieces parts used for movies and commercial gain. Leaving you with incomplete information of your musical heritage.
Thanks for stepping away from the usual list of music most reactors cover these days I have a suggestion for a song and a group no one else has reviewed. It's a very high-quality recording and, honestly, I don't even know what genre it belongs in - but it's easy on the ears. Please check it out! ruclips.net/video/U1zMrdTQsHQ/видео.html&ab_channel=MusicFog
If you want words Chatanuga Choo Choo is good and easy to sing as you're doing something else.
React to Peggy Mann- M urd3r He Says.
Somebody talks WAAAY too much