Stompin' At The Savoy (Benny Goodman Montage)

[kiffegle]

I didn't mean to paint a broad stoke against pop music artists. There is plenty of talent in pop music. I heard Lady Gaga sing The Lady is a Trap with Tony Bennett and enjoyed it. I tried to impress upon my kids and their friends that much of what they like in pop music is rooted in the past, like Pachelbel's Canon in G. Pop artists even copy the past directly. There was a Beethoven tune playing and I my father-in-law insisted that it was an Elivs tune. The ignorance is frustrating!

[magholahmed]

this music makes me happy every time i listen it , i donno why may be cuz the spirit of the film that i heard it in . but it really very happy one .

[TooFastTooGood]

Great swing musician but he wasn't the "King of Swing", Chick Webb was!

[Zagezoeloe1]

It would be so nice to hear this music on the radio :) just love it.

[bigb5952]

..thank you for posting this classic Goodman!...he was - and still remains - the true "King of Swing"!

[xnavigator]

anyone that still complains about modern pop music these days is too stupid to find the good music

[MrPeter821]

Does anyone know where I can find this edition of "Stompin' at the Savoy"? Thanks much. Great song.

[Hazerdous2urhealth]

Small Time Crooks, gotta love it

[MrsGeekside]

Benny Goodman does NOT look like Captain Glenn Miller,, Benny's a little round jewish guy who played up til 1985...

Benny and Artie are likeable the way Madonna and Cyndi Lauper were similar in the 80's but then they branched out and went in completely different directions... I love them both but Benny's my boy.

[Kokotienko]

he looks like Glenn Miller

[Zachdudeio2]

Chick Webb's version is better

[thecubanism]

Chick Webb and Benny played this tune in a battle of the bands, Chick upped the tempo and in the words of Gene Krupa, 'Chick cut us to ribbons' listen to Chicks version and see what you think

[illl7775able]

I love it!!!

[fab4fan4ever64]

Play it, Benny...wow..

[thecubanism]

Many years ago, when I was musically ignorant a fellow apprentice friend of mine gave me a record of his brothers', who was doing at the time his national service as a musician, it was Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall, I played it so much I could hear the flip side coming through, I bought it again, and eventualy got the full , unedited version on out of Benny's attic, I have played this thousands of times and never tire of it,, how llucky am I?

[spacepatrolman]

@thecubanism they call national sevice the draft in america the rock group ten years after got there name from an article it has been ten years since national service ended in england

[kevinherbert]

I always feel that Benny is blowing directly into my year.....

[Syzygy60]

yes the songs today lack something...me...hit it!

[Proceed44]

its kind of funny when you think about it people say they wish they were in this time period but in reality living in the this generation now has been a blessing like our technology so living now overwhelms the perks of living then

[Padfoot333]

@Proceed44 Good point, but the way I see it, if you're not aware of future technology, you can't really miss it ;)

[Morahman7vnNo2]

I'm surprised I can hear Charlie Christian.

[55chianti]

I miss my dad..... reminds me much of him.......brings tears to my eyes..I grew up with all this music.. Benny, Artie,Kaye, Glen ...Oh,bye the way, Louis Prima wrote Sing,Sing,Sing in 1924

[55chianti]

I miss my dad..... reminds me much of him.......brings tears to my eyes..

[califgirl101]

Right at 1:50 was that Gene Krupa on the right?

[timpani25]

@califgirl101 yes indeed, that was mr. kruppa.

[RayGettings]

Brings back memories.....a true classic

[wladicom]

I like this song.

[MissGoldenDreams13]

This song is immortal. There's nothing else I can say.

[Oldiesbuff925]

I love all ERAS of music...except that rap crap...but despite The Big Band/Swing Era beign before my time, nothing like it and can listen to this all the time....even catch the specials on PBS....Big Bands, Standards, DooWop, 60's, 70's, THe Best.

[ifinau1]

i go to sleep listening to this music. not because it is boring but because it helps me to sleep

[MrSunday23]

love this song



[illl7775able]

SWING IS IN BABY!!! I love it!!!

[LostGoldMusic]

5 people missed the like button!

find music like Benny Goodman, Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang, and much more on our channel!!

[danzinnyman]

beautifull

[mydadsarobot]

my uncles joe and nestor...killed in action in 1945....liberating Europe...this was their music.

[jr55ful]

i have listened to rock,soul and pop music all of my life. i first heard this and miller's moonlight serenade when i was in my early 20's and fell in love with it. pure talent on display.

[cakeyspig]

Great music will live forever. This is great.

[JimmyDeLocke]

There is a totally awesome version of this tune on the tube by Mike Marshall and Chris Thiele -- what a great tune -- the way the bridge is a half step up from the

common III-VI-II-V and ends up on the #V, then drops down to the V -- genius.

Some of these old standards are so well written, it's no wonder people are still playing them seventy years later.

[EMCEMITCH]

benny,artie shaw,defranco,giuffre----not bad

[Corrie121]

Music from a period when music WAS music. Great to know that a person of tender years appreciates good music. I only wish my Grandchildren shared your interest.

Thank you so much for sharing this fine post.

[mca10spro]

I have to credit Harry Connick Jr. for making me aware of this song. I heard i on the soudtrack for the movie, "When Harry met Sally"

[kdgabbo]

@mca10spro I have to credit Woody Wllen, when i first heard of benny goodman i think it was in Small Time Crooks.

[dixiejazz1]

Even though this version of "Stompin At The Savoy" by the Goodman band is very good, I actually prefer the rendition by the Chick Webb Orchestra. It's more animated at a faster tempo - in short more energy radiating from every note. ( I believe it was Webb's arranger, Edgar Sampson, who actually wrote this song.) It's just that Goodman's recording is the better known one today - possibly because Webb died at an early age in 1939 due to major spinal surgery and his group disbanded circa 1942.

[ilovejamesbondify]

yesssss....my teacher gave me this solo in jazz band

[valvetrom]

And as so often the exotic middle part makes it memorable and everybody learns it. See also Body and Soul, or Girl from Epanema

[ochinochi]

Benny had it going on! Love this one.

[JR1840]

I'm going to see Bob DeAngelis do a tribute concert tonight. The write up says they're gonna do this number. I can't wait.

[attabuoy]

Perhaps Vearlsriver and his father "did the swing", but while the music was "Swing", we did the Lindy (Lindy Hop). For fast dancers the Double Lindy, for slower dancers, the Single Lindy. Once again, its a nice tight arrangement (whose??) that makes it a great number!

[kesson12]

@attabuoy The world of jazz and swing is a beautiful thing mate, and this is comming out of the mouth/fingers of a metal head.

[loocee95]

@attabuoy The arrangement is by Edgar Samson.

[heartstoobig]

this music just makes me happy. I can't explain it. It just lifts me up. :)

[JudyGarland38]

@heartstoobig I know the exact feeling, and there is no explanation for it. It's just there, and boy does it feel good!

[sidinator3000]

@heartstoobig That's because it's the best music on earth!

[allenlewis]

What is this a on line dating site. The song belongs to Chick Web thanks to one of his sax players.

[cubanbrown]

Whoever posted this Masterpiece..

You should be Hailed a 'KING'

Me and You.....(WE LOVE MUSIC)!

[impulsobytheshades]

Just Amazing, great song and you must song jimmy bruno's version is also great

[impulsobytheshades]

must check not song jaja, must check jimmy bruno's version is on sleight of hand

[rbrewer666]

Benny's band was always so tight....

[ReVo115]

haha reminds me of i love lucy when she was swing dancing...ah good times!

[loocee95]

The Lucy version of this tune really swings....I think it's better than the Benny version..

[SariaLink987]

Thats the first place i heard this song... it's so awesome.

[Rowland108]

Superb. Thanks

[dovermoreno]

I haven't posted a video on YouTube yet...

but if I did, I think I'd have this song playing in the background.

Kool, man. Kool !

[stormin87]

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[AllHailShemp]

Perhaps the greatest musician of the 20th century. May he be rembered always, the great king of swing.

[HermanStancill]

Cut many rug to this tune. Herman

[drummerlead]

Benny would have been 100 years old today!

[ljbabysprite]

It's like all these incredibly gifted bandleaders and musicians got together and said to each other, "What the people need is some 'happy music.'" And just listen to those tunes. They may have done our country more good than any "New Deal" or "Works Progress Administration" by giving people a reason to forget their troubles, smile and dance their cares away.

[mamaagustina]

¡¡¡ QUE TEMA HERMOSÍSIMO Y QUE INTERPRETACIÓN!!!. ¡¡¡INSUPERABLE!!!. Recuerden : el 30 / 5 2009 Benny GOODMAN ...CUMPLE 100 AÑOS.

[pyannaguy]

Anybody can say what they want as far as what's

"modern" or "relevant," or whatever - there is a yawning dearth of melody in almost everything I hear in recent pop music. The "tunes" have no tune - just tired little rudimentary blues-based phrases.

A run-of-the-mill horn player in the mid 20th century played more melody notes in an evening's work than you'll find on a half-dozen Madonna, or Britney Spears albums. It's pretty sad: the state of melody, or "tune" in most pop music these days.

[HuttonGlutton]

You're wonderful. May I marry you?

[pyannaguy]

Jeez, Thanks! But I'm already in a committed monotonous relationship. Marriage would just take the fun out of the beautiful thing we share. Au revoir...

[HuttonGlutton]

Monotonous relationship? Sounds serious. Well, it was wonderful while it lasted! ;D

[Epsilon15]

@pyannaguy Fortunately outside of pop there's tons of fantastic music with strong melodies.

[pyannaguy]

@Epsilon15 You're 100% right, Epsilon. I played a bunch of fun, jazzy stuff and standards in a trio setting yesterday, purely for the fun of it. Too bad that the ugly, pervasive corporate pop machine just pushes so many recycled pap.

Oh, well - there's Music and then there's the Music Business. What a difference a word makes!

Take it easy...

[acfinney]

@pyannaguy Right. Music today is reduced to chanting and out of tune church choir singing. These songs make me feel good without being sexual or political. To hell with American Idol, Goodman and his peers were tried and tested. They were the real American idols.

[MartinPadderborn]

@pyannaguy

Why should record producers , concert promotors etc bother selling real music when they can get away with selling trash? You've all been suckered.

[kiffegle]

@pyannaguy You misunderstand pop music. What passes for music is merely jingles and chants for the product that is actually being sold - sex, image and popularity. Kids senses have been numbed by relentless exposure to commercials. Their attention span is nil and their taste, or rather lack of it, is for musical junk food. It's all about being loud and obnoxious to get attention. There's hope. Expose children to the classics at an early age. My son loves jazz and classical music.

[briandsmith228]

@kiffegle There's plenty of great modern music. Good musicians didn't just stop being born. Sure, the billboard top 10 is full of crap for the most part, but if that's all you're listening to I don't know what you expect. Songs like this one aren't being written as much anymore, but do you really expect them to? Music is always changing, you just have to be open minded. You don't have to like it, but look up a band like Tera Melos and tell me they aren't good musicians

[n64wilbert]

@kiffegle At least your Son shares a common social artistic identity because I'm barely 15 years old and love this 1934 musical Composition!!

[TheBernie2201]

@pyannaguy AMEN

[manopdemaan]

larry the crazy jazz cat bringing it to ya!

[jazzmusic07]

I love it! Such a great piece!!!!!

[mattvj5]

great stuff...and for whatever reason my sorry ass is having trouble playing through this tune in time..this helps big time!

[NcicHit]

Steve Allen made a pretty good Benny Goodman. Great song.

[swinginkatz]

Swing is still alive here in Tampa Bay. Check out my You Tube, swinginkatz.

[BrunoJazzmanLeicht]

One of my first jazz LP's I bought when I was 14. Thanks for posting this lovely video.

Bruno "Swingin' Brew" Leicht

[Vearlsriver]

I think of my WWII father and his 4 brothers who all danced and talked about doing the swing, during that time. My dad taught me how to do the swing. Dad said,

now that was real music. Oh,well. I miss you dad. Let it be known, that as long as I remember, you'll never be dead.

[biseckler]

BG é o melhor músico que já existiu. Esse cara era demais. Abraços: PIRAJU_SP_BRASIL

[MikeyL]

This is such a beautiful piece. A true classic done by a classic "King". Great stuff.

[rhzombory]

I had a trombone solo in this piece...

this song is pretty amazing :]

[jeffpicks]

In _THIS_ piece? with _THIS_ band? or another?

[jakethemistake19]

i did a report on Benny goodman and gave him a crown for The King of Swing

[Disco4Evr79]

I've loved this song ever since I saw Lucy jitterbug to it on I Love Lucy. Snazzy, baby!

[HenriMesquida]

7 ème des charts américains en1955.

[AliciaClara]

i danced on this music ( : <3 it was awesome!

[TrentH190]

hehe this piece of music is in Woody allen's Small time Crooks, its awesome

[gretzle]

Let a modern band try to get this sound from 2 guitars and a drum.

[aerofredywr]

Pure SWING!

[attabuoy]

In 1982 I taped (from radio station WINS) a Jim Lowe in depth interview of BG, with Benny's '38 concert interspersed). At one point Benny said:

"You know, I always thought that music was for dancing, and I still do." Guess that's why that great slow lindy tempo on this one!

[gerrypzz]

Great tribute to the "King of Swing".Thanks for putting on Yiutube.

[xevcosmo]

Among the best, I remember one summer vacation in remote utah, all to keep me company was an old rca record player and a huge stack of 78,s, I feel the same way. Do you have any Blue Barrob or Sammy Kaye?

[glennmilleristhebest]

No I don't. Are they similar?

[attabuoy]

Great arrangement. Great ensemble, great solos and the incomparable Benny, all at the right tempo for some nice easy listening and dancing.

That's "thumbs up" and five star for sure!! Was it a Fletcher Henderson arrangement?

[glennmilleristhebest]

It might be, i know that Chick Webb used the same arrangement at a much faster tempo.

[swt32567]

There will never be another time in history like this. It was the time of Big Bands Swing & Jazz. This was the time of youth, & lvoe of "The Greatest Generation". After 7 December 1941 America's world would never be the same again. Thank you for posting this classic, so if only for a moment I can go back and get a taste fo my parent's time.

Sincerely

Colonel S. A. Chase,USA(Ret.)

[glennmilleristhebest]

I am really glad you like this. This is the only kind of music I listen to and I am 13!

I salute you!

[swt32567]

You have great taste, style & class. I hope that you can interest some of your peers to listen up. I have a 14 yr old granddaughter & if I played this for her she would look at me as if the walls had grown lips and started to speak!.I salute you amigo. I can go to my rest knowing that there is hope for your generation & that this great music will live on. Again I salute U with a big Army HOOAH !!!  Hasta Luego Amigo Colonel S.A. Chase, USA(Ret.)

[clarinet001]

Im 16... listen and play this music all the time!!

[swt32567]

It' so good to know that their is hope for classic swing music.Keep up the good work. My oldest daughter played first clarinet in her high school & college bands. She's 32 & married now but she still enjoys good music.Back when this music was King teens all over America were dancing to it. In the 30's & 40's this music was as popular as Hip-Hop is today. Let's hope that with your help & others like you Swing will never die. Funny how it has outlived the great "Masters".

Viva La Musica!!!

[clarinet001]

Thank you. People will eventually get tired of this "music" today and want to listen to what music really is.

[swt32567]

Hooah !!!

[Myrddyn7]

I love this music and I'm 14. We are playing this song in band right now, but my director is making me play Benny's part on the sax rather than the clarinet, because he likes the sound. It irritated me to no end.

[brycecapocelli]

im playin it too! trumpet1

[junka22]

That's so cool that there's still some kids nowadays that dig this stuff! I think I can include myself in the kid cathegory since I'm only 19 myself and I feel like a kid. Anyway just love this tune, it's so cheerful and easy going, a world apart from the popular music of today ^^

[hauntenthusiast]

@glennmilleristhebest yes!! im 16 and i love this! i salute YOU!

[Whippodopolous]

@glennmilleristhebest I'm glad you fell that way, because thats all I've been listening to my whole life, and I'm 15 haha. I have to say, I wish I lived in the 30's!

[fetishofmashroomz94]

@Whippodopolous me too... these days we just have to endure trash like Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga... it's really pity that I couldn't live when they made real music!

[Whippodopolous]

@fetishofmashroomz94 I agree completely!

[sapemi08]

@swt32567

And it also seems that the harder the times,

the grater the music, the human spirit creates.

It is just amazing.

[acerb45666555]

@swt32567 .....hey G.I. ! Canada got into that little shindig in 1939!! what took you guys so long??

[swt32567]

@acerb45666555 You know the USA always a day late & a dollar short & we always have the nerve to look & be surprised ! ! ! !

[hanno21664]

my friend, i have to say i agree with you. my grandfather a WW II vet, practically said to me Dec, 7 1941 was end of greatness for our country. and no one in the family or his friends could change his mind. he also told me music was in great decline, and changes in our society would wound us forever and never heal. i was 15 when he said that and i thought he was a crazy old man, now i am 35 years old and i clearly see what he was trying to say. big band era still is awesome. take care friend.