A really great song. The American people were fed a lot of crap about the Soviet Union (for example, the idea that it was a "democracy" just like us) during World War II, unfortunately. Then, afterward, things swung to the other extreme, and the Russians were, also unfortunately, represented as the devil incarnate.
@RaananVolesPianist : If you get a chance, watch "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears." It was made by a Russian film maker in the late 1970s or early 1980s and was banned in the Soviet Union - to my thinking because it was an embarrassment - it showed a society with CLASS DISTINCTIONS in a country that prided itself in supposedly having none!
I remember this it is awesome - Thanks very much I too am very surprised to see it here. My dad had a double - LP titled Mission to Moscow. I was actually looking for a cut titled Meet the Band. Why don't you put that 1 up if you have it?? I remember that Tommy Newsomb was on tenor sax! He played in the Tonite Show orchestra from the Johnny Carson days.
I'm surprised that anyone else remembers this song. I used to play the 78rpm recording of this (on the Columbia label) over and over when I was a kid, and I still have the record to this day. Great memories, and thanks for posting.
i'm only 14 and i find this music very appealing
SilentPorpus83 2 weeks ago
Benny Goodman, is the real "Good Man" of clarinet, the king of swing!
edwardconway27 2 months ago
Drop the politics and just lay back and grooooove.
medmond6 2 months ago
This is spectacular. Bob Wills does a great western swing version of this also.
grimmpoxer 10 months ago 2
A really great song. The American people were fed a lot of crap about the Soviet Union (for example, the idea that it was a "democracy" just like us) during World War II, unfortunately. Then, afterward, things swung to the other extreme, and the Russians were, also unfortunately, represented as the devil incarnate.
RaananVolesPianist 1 year ago 2
@RaananVolesPianist : If you get a chance, watch "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears." It was made by a Russian film maker in the late 1970s or early 1980s and was banned in the Soviet Union - to my thinking because it was an embarrassment - it showed a society with CLASS DISTINCTIONS in a country that prided itself in supposedly having none!
BardCoennius 1 year ago
@BardCoennius WTF? "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" was never banned in the Soviet Union. I'm Russian, I know exactly. Stop talking nonsense.
00Indil00 4 months ago
@00Indil00: All I know is that's what it said on the box the videotape came in.
BardCoennius 4 months ago
Just love the multipart sax section solis. Then the syncopated clarinet finishing it off. Just a great example of jump.
trydreamin 1 year ago
Benny and mission to moscow as an example of the Hard driving arrangements and great sloos of the master.None better and I've listen to them all
MegaFirebrand 1 year ago
someone remembers the Glenn Miller's AAF band version?even better
annanoli 1 year ago
A great song named after a terrible movie.
RaananVolesPianist 1 year ago
meh. It's ok, but i still enjoy the artie shaw version of it more. Its just a little better.
kingpat125 2 years ago
@kingpat125 I don't think Shaw ever recorded it? ....anybody know for sure?
TheBernie2201 3 months ago
@TheBernie2201 Glenn Miller did
annanoli 1 month ago
I remember this it is awesome - Thanks very much I too am very surprised to see it here. My dad had a double - LP titled Mission to Moscow. I was actually looking for a cut titled Meet the Band. Why don't you put that 1 up if you have it?? I remember that Tommy Newsomb was on tenor sax! He played in the Tonite Show orchestra from the Johnny Carson days.
phase901 2 years ago
I'm surprised that anyone else remembers this song. I used to play the 78rpm recording of this (on the Columbia label) over and over when I was a kid, and I still have the record to this day. Great memories, and thanks for posting.
vandywilliam 2 years ago