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  • I'm 21 and I remember when this song was used in a Chips Ahoy commercial back in the 90's... anyone else?

  • @TheDriscy You got that right! I'm 20 and have been playing bass in a swing band for 5 years. Nothing beats the toe-tapping of Sing, Sing, Sing!

  • I'm 71 years old and love the 40's 50's, 60's and 70's but this song is my absolute favorite of all time. If your feet ain't keeping in time and your hands aren't clapping, you're just not 'Hip'.

  • Incredible. My dad got me into big-band/swing but I hadn't heard the extended session of this awesome tune until tonight. Thanx for posting.

  • \m/

  • Most awesome dance tune EVER! Thanks for posting this.

  • I remember hearing this when my Grandpa used to play this song in the 50's:) On his old record player. I still have it..and the old record..but the song is only 3 mins long. The short version

  • Gets me crazy everytime!!!! especially the third segment!

  • I've heard many other versions of this--including later recordings by BG. NONE of them come together into the smooth, swinging whole like this first recording by BG's band.

  • Lucky, you have the record :'(

  • I envy you so much for that disc... Great music !

  • This song is the definition of the swing era

  • Say yes to the jazz

    Who agree thumb up

  • wow I never heard a 78 sound so good

  • Sem dúvida é a maior big band que já existiu! Adicionei como meu favorito: )

  • 5 people not understanding.......

  • thumbs up if you listen to this everyday

  • 5 people can't sing

  • benny goodman rules i always looooved this song all my life even as a toddler ir ememebr hearing this treasure trully staticool and awesome.

  • THIS is my favorite recording of "Sing, Sing, Sing"! The January 16, 1938 Carnegie Hall recording is all over the place. But THIS recording is the one that really gets to me! LOVE it! Thanks!

  • "May I have this dance, Miss McIntire?"

  • Oh man, the King of Swing!!

  • What is this crazy new music that is arriving from the colonies?

    Hmmmm?

  • thumbs up cause im 14

  • At 9:01 is the part that is known as "All the Cats Join In" starts.

  • I watched Swing Kids in school and really enjoyed it

    And Fallout 3 soundtrack was epic :3

  • definition of music rt here

  • Someone needs to make a video of people dancing synchronously as this plays in the background.

  • I have always loved Big Band, and Benny Goodman was the epitomy of it! My grandparents danced to this when it was new, my late husband and I took swing classes just to try to do what our grandparents did, wow, I must say What A Ride!

  • My dad was 19 when this song was made. Bet it was one of favorites.....

  • playing swing (or any jazz for that matter) makes me happy :D

  • BIG BUSINESS BETTE MIDLER AND LILY TOMLIN

  • Love Sing, Sing,Sing, Green Eyes, And tThe Angels Sing AND If I didn't Care by the Ink Spots

  • im 13 and love this music! my school band is gonna play in the mood!

  • If this has not been commented on before, Benny Goodman was once asked 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' His answer was 'You Practice'

    Sing sing sing is absolutely world stopping stuff, as I think it did when first performed and it shows the absolute perfection of Benny Goodman's music. Let's face it, if anyone made a mistake they received the world famous 'Ray', a stare of disapproval far more damaging and 30 years before lasers were discovered.

  • The 4 people who thumbs-downed this video have absolutely no taste in good music. This is a gem. Benny Goodman changed the world of Jazz forever, not to mention he singlehandedly challenged our social comfort level with integration in 1936 when he hired Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton as members of his band. No other band before them had integrated, at least not publically. He was a hero and a genious. Long live Benny Goodman, the king of swing! :D

  • how can anyone dislike this? This is pure musical genius. Better then a lot of the Jazz today

  • Question: How much of this is improvisation? Granted, it's a great recording either way, but if some of the solos (such as the ones in the latter half of the song) were on-the-spot compositions, it would be that much cooler.

  • @SteelyPhil37 With their touring schedules, 40'sbig bands sometimes played the same composition 20-30 or more times a month. With a recording like this, it's possible the principles could have ad libbed new riffs. However, the fans of the time expected the composition to sound pretty much the same, and the musicians accommodated them. Besides, it would have been very stressful to try to ad lib new material all the time.

  • Every generation has its great music.

    Today is no exception. A great deal of today's music is in-your-face garbage but great music is here to stay from all ages. For some really fun stuff try looking at he 1920s. Keep in mind that we are living in the good ole days.

  • this song makes me feel like driving past a speak easy and letting go a few rounds from my 1931 roadster

  • Do you know when this record was released?

  • This sounds awesome, especially on the vinyl! Vinyl just produces a sound that not even digital can replicate. :D

    (Says a 16-year-old. :P)

  • Awesome. TY for posting.

  • Don't be too hard on the teenagers of today for their taste in music. Remember, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, and the rest were the rock bands of their day, and swing music was considered by some to be scandalous. Remind young people of that, too, if they call swing music old-fashioned (or whatever their term for it is now...)

  • The original 12" dance mix! Nothing sounds like a 78'. Amazing.

  • The original 12" dance mix! Nothing sounds like a 78' Amazing.

  • This song always makes me take a step back, take a deep breath and just live in the music for a while.

    PS: Everyone under the age of 14 needs to leave the internet now and not come back until you're in high school. It rots undeveloped brains.

  • you know im 10 and im sooooooo into this song. when i listen to it i feel like i just wanna dance the whole time!!

  • @MrKuwaitwolf

    Me, Too!

  • @cdbpdx im 13 and i love this song

  • @goldenboym16

    I loved it when I was 13, too! And the Beatles.

  • @MrKuwaitwolf swing is the only music I am willing to embarrass myself dancing to and not care:) in public i mean....

  • @MrKuwaitwolf atta boy!!

  • @MrKuwaitwolf I've been listening to this song since I was 10 (40+ years ago) and it ALWAYS gets me the same way. May you, too, have a lifetimes enjoyment of it. Thanks to all those long gone musicians.

  • @MrKuwaitwolf

    Your folks are teaching you well young padwan

  • Hey im a teen (13) and i love this stuff!

  • I am a old rocker played every thing from punk to metal...and this song rocks the most

  • this is the shit.

  • I'd love to find a 12" copy of this. I think mine is the same recording, but it's on two 10" discs... and I only have the first disc >_<

    If you go to my channel, you can see it playing on my Orthophonic Victrola console.

  • i love swing music and big band music i dont know why teens like me hate it

  • @thomasdragsbaek

    I don't think most teens hate this music, just 98% of them have no idea this music exists. I'm happy that this venue reaches all ages!

  • @cdbpdx yeah, i´m 18 and known the song since i was 8, but i never knew the name of it, thanks internet!!

  • @cdbpdx Sucks that I was 22 when I first heard Jazz. but it's never late.

  • @thomasdragsbaek Because most teens a just simply stupid and narrow minded, just few good people know what real music is. Just remember that you know within heart and soul what good music is. Ya get me.

  • @rudiherold84 im offended. im a teenager and i play in two jazz bands and a concert band on the trombone and tuba. i love this kind of music. its great. i play it all day. this is the best kind of music, but still, dont judge every teen that way.

  • @MrYoman710 I agree with you. Teenagers as a whole shouldn't be stereotyped by how a relatively small number act or dress, or by their taste in music. 

  • finally! some one who knows how I feel=)

  • @thomasdragsbaek if teens like u hate it then u would hate it, the teens who hate it arent like u geez

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  • @thomasdragsbaek Because most kids are afraid of being different, even though they think they are rebels.

  • @TheJedgeworth How right you are..

    Strange as it may seem, there are no folk that are more conservative than the young..

  • I wonder if they were high when they recorded this 'cause it's sure giving me a buzz.

  • This is my favorite recording of the song :D

    I'm almost 15 and I have to say that 85% of music I hear today is crap This stuff is the best, it can put you in such a good mood

  • @rvdbob - try: Benny Goodman Live at Carnegie Hall 1938 (by Tpetman85) for the first 10 minutes then go to: BENNY GOODMAN JAZZ LEGEND PART 5..wmv (by the50sjazzfan) for the final 5 or so minutes - it continues from the start of the piano solo...

  • Benny Goodman es fabuloso, música extrordinaria, toca el cielo de Machupicchu

  • Arranged for Goodman by Jimmy Mundy, who must have been something of a genius to get this out of Prima's fluffy novelty piece.

  • Reportedly, this was to have been a simple 3 to 5 minute song, but during one session Gene Krupa kept the drums going. So the band improvised around him and the song became legend.

  • What kind of player are you using? Any special needles or cartridges to play shellac 78s?

  • @ViktorDragmire

    The player is a Garrard 4HF(L) with a GE VRII cartridge from the late 1950s. Specifically designed to be the best for 78s. It produces plenty of voltage so a preamp is not necessary. The stylus is an elliptical 3 mil, though 2.5 will work. Diamond is my preferred stylus, getting tough to find NOS stylus these days.

  • Is the record slow? Just wondering, it's a great find though!

  • ....on COLUMBIA, who got the rights to the 1938 Carnegie Hall recordings.

  • This was indeed recorded in two parts on July 6, 1937 [this is a mid-'40s reissue, as the original releases had a "Victor" label]. The extended January 1938 Carnegie Hall version wasn't issued on disc until 1950.

  • thank you

  • This DEFINITELY from the 1/16/38 Carnegie Hall Concert.

    Have the 33rpm and cassette which i have listened to thousands of times over the last 60 years...no question!!

  • @fwc493 the carnegie hall 1938 version sounds way different....youtube it

  • To think that once there was a gilded time when clubs were not packed with young ragamuffins displaying proudly their undergarments. Clubs without flashing lights of every color in the rainbow, guaranteed to cause the epileptic to go into fits, and the colorblind to avert their now stricken eyes. Best of all, the music is not dominated only by raucous bass and repetitive drums. Paradise Lost this is.

  • @Amityrockstarx You have to look for paradise. It just gets hidden deeper and deeper so you have to dig a little longer. There's a few youngsters who take inspiration from this music still.

  • @Amityrockstarx Please, swing was all about crazy, raucous, music, repetitive drums, bass, and trumpets and it was all about displaying your undergarments. It's hard to Lindy Hop in a dress without flashing your panties :)

  • Age doesn't have anything to do with what type of music someone listens to. I've listened to Big Band music since I was 9. Just because I like Sing Sing Sing doesn't mean I can't love Doo Wop by Lauryn Hill, California Love by Tupac, Smile by Lily Allen and then add some random piece by Vladimir Horowitz with Marilyn Manson and some Chrispy dub step to finish.

    Yes, I'm a teenager. Just barely; 14 is hardly a teenager.

  • man i wish i was lived this time period!! thx for uploading! this was truly a treat!!

  • Aw god this is so wild!!!!

  • I've heard that intro all over the place, LOVE THIS SONG :)

  • hey, thanks for posting this, it's wonderful. this definitely brings back memories. when i was 15 (i'm 25 now) i used to play this the day of my high school soccer games to get pumped, haha. everyone else was playing rap and other stuff. but i had this rocking pretty loud. 6:41-6:58 was always my favorite part. it still is : ) thank you again for sharing.

    Take Care,

    Layne

  • I love this music! :) <3

  • does anyone have saxophone note sheet for this? if so, or any instrument at all, i have my sheet list in my channel, over 200 songs for sax or that can be played with sax, if you want to trade note sheets.

  • Isn't this the 1938 Carnegie Hall consert recording?

  • @rvdbob

    This is listed as being recorded in Hollywood, CA. Jul 6, 1937. The Carnagie Hall version is 12 minutes, I think.

  • @cdbpdx The Carnegie Hall is around 12 minutes and not as much of the full band. Mostly Benny, Harry James, Krupa, and Jess Stacey on piano taking their solo licks. About 1/2 way through they stop, and you can hear the crowd, then Krupa comes back in and just wails. Very Hot!

  • 78 RPM¡ i have a old LP 33 RPM, and this song sound very good, There are a god film where teenagers dance swing, but war is near and they must go to army (a teenager suicides) Do you know movie´s name? Sorry my english... Thanks XD

  • Pristine condition - impressive. My great grand parents were probably jamming to this back in the day but I never heard it until now - Thanks for the post.

  • im 18 and i do like loads of modern music but this stuff really is the shit at the end of the day.

  • i meant 30s typo

  • this is better then any pop or rap song

    see what you get when you work hard your songs are remembered for decades or even centuries this is from the 40s & i'm 14 & i love this song

    they should put jazz classics on mtc instead of lil wayne & tranny gaga

  • absolute genius

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  • @HoboNinja2 Well your ♥ would be blessed if you'd see the huge ammt of teenagers who not only listen but also DANCE to this at the local Swing dance club here in Lancaster, PA!

  • @HoboNinja2

    i was introduced to swing music well before my teens and my kids will be whenever i decide to have kids. people look at me so funny when i'm driving down the highway blasting sing sing sing or in the mood....my grandfather taught me to love swing he used to tap dance in the 30's until recently. i joined band because his love for good music rubbed off on me and i wanted to learn to play.

  • @HoboNinja2 Sure! yah right.. If it dont have the same stupid beat, and if its about killing, sex and drugs, sure the kids would love it.

  • @analyzingfunny Are you prejudice towards the youth?

  • @HoboNinja2 Some teenagers already know this

  • @HoboNinja2 : I was :) Played it in Jazz Band in high school. Us band geeks know it, at least!

  • @HoboNinja2 I'm 15 and I absolutely love swing music. It's different which makes it interesting.

  • @AirsoftReview101 there is a shortage of people like us... pity really :P

  • @AirsoftReview101 Good on ya mate! =D I LOVE swing!

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  • @AirsoftReview101

    Same here im 15 too and love swing music thanks to fallout and youtube

  • @HoboNinja2 when I was a teenager (in the 90's) I wished this was the music that was still what was playing at clubs and mainstream. Clubs these days don't touch a swing club in the 30's and 40's.  I can tell, and I wasn't even there! At least I got to live through the far inferior swing revival of the 90's though!

    Swing dancing is real dancing. Kids today just dry hump each other on the dance floor!

  • @HoboNinja2 I'm a teenager and i listen to music like this all the time!

  • What gets me is that RCA Victor had to issue a special 12 inch &* RPM disc for this song! From what i read, it was only supposed to be 3 minutes long, but Krupa decided to keep his drums going and the band improvised behind him. If that's the truth, then this recording is, like a co-worker likes to say, "lightning in a bottle"!

  • This is a really good version. Fuckin' great.

  • Ahhh... Want! :)

    Thank you for putting this up!

  • i have the same album and it sounds great playing on my old victrola wind up cabinet

  • Yes, that is in fact, Christopher Columbus @ 1:48 or so - by Andy Razaf (lyrics) and Leon Berry. It was also recorded by Mr. Goodman as a single. I saw "The Benny Goodman Story" at the movie theater when I was young. and played the album "The Great Benny Goodman" until my mother's Weber phonograph gave out.

  • All 78s sound awesome if in reasonably good condition and if played with the right needle and cartridge.

  • Wow...

    I gotta agree with Splatter Spree...

    This record sounds AMAZING for a 78 RPM.

    Krupa's drum kit really comes thru on this record.

  • nothing like analogical audio systems

  • I also have a pristine copy of this 78...love it!!

  • okay so im doing an IA for my history class on the entertainment industry during the Great Depression when i came to his name, so i decided to listen and guess wat? IM LIKING WHAT IM HEARING!!! :D

  • awesome song, i definitely relish how videos containing songs of this style do not attract as many childish 'thumb me up' comments or immature comments giving ludicrous reasons to why people gave the video a down rating.

  • @WrongPersonLmao I'll give you a thumbs up for that...

  • The record seems to be in very good condition!!! Where did you get the record?

  • @SplatterSpreeReviews

    I actually have 3 of these, 2 from local garage sales and 1 from a huge collection of 78s I bought. This was issued as a seperate record and also as a part of a 3 record album set. All 3 that I have are in excellent condition. Paid about 50c - $1 for each.

  • @cdbpdx That so cheap! Highway robbery like. I bought one for $1.50 and I thought that was a huge ass bargain. Aren't these records rare?

  • @cdbpdx i would give you $100 for this

  • @stevenhamlin1000

    As much as I'd like to have your $100, I must say that I just bought another collection of about 2000 records, including one more of these, this one from the album. Got 4 now. Paid $100 for the collection so the new one cost 5c. Now I have 4, all pretty equal to this one in the video. They're out there, I'm not too keen on selling mine right now.

  • @SplatterSpreeReviews

    Just bought another collection of about 2000 records, including one more of these, this one from the album. Got 4 now. Paid $100 for the collection so the new one cost 5c.

  • @cdbpdx WOW!!! That's Grrreat!! Congratulations, and THANK YOU for saving so much as you are able, and sharing it with us . . .

  • @cdbpdx I am so unbelivably jealous hahaha

  • @cdbpdx woah! that my friend is what you call an unbelievable steal!!!

  • Goodmen is very good

  • 1:44 sounds like Christopher Columbus from the Ink Spots

  • Best music ever made!!!! Thanks for playing side A and B.

  • Best music ever made!!!!

  • who can deny this is not Benny Goodman Orchestra's best ever recording! Gene Krupa on drums with that 'Jungle' beat and Harry James on trumpet and off course Benny 'THE King of Swing' on clarinet!!!!!!!!! I have many Benny Goodman recordings including his Mozart concerto but this is my favourite of them all. I hope you all like minded.

  • I am 19 and I played this song in my high school Jazz ensemble for 4 years =) Best song on the planet (one of the most difficult to learn to play though lol)

  • una de las mejores canciones del genero que e escuchado,,,, por cierto tengo 35 años xDDD

  • I'm 16, and this song is just unspeakably awesome! And after I learned we had it for our Jazz Ensemble I felt like hyperventilating xD.

  • I am 12 and wat is this

  • @lychicambess This is music. If we're all telling our ages, I'm 13!

  • @Spollock97 LoL I was being facetious. I'm 22 years old and no one cares how old you are, if you like old school get down with it babeh!

  • @lychicambess this, lad, is amazing music

  • @PalpoPalpatine Thanks for assuming I was a boy, gentleman!

  • @lychicambess joke..eaaasy now. 0:38

  • I'm a creation of your imagination and I like this song.

  • 15 year old boy mainly into Indie music, but god I LOVE IT!

  • This is pure awesomeness!!

    I wish more people can appreciate this music. Nowdays music is so boring, is the same all time. This music is pure fun and talent, i love it.

    PD: Im 21 (everyone tell his age...so...) lol

  • My parents just concieved me ten minutes ago, and I like this song.

  • i'm a new born baby and i love this song LOL

  • I feel like dancing.

  • I have loved Big Band & Swing since I was a kid. BG & Glen Miller are the best!

  • you guys check a movie called -Swing Girls-... another good version of this song, and some others

  • @galeno07 just finished watching it actually :D good movie

  • I´m 19 and listen to this since i was 4.

    Thanks, mom

  • I'm 15 heard this song played at the jazz festival by another school stage band and my friend Daniel and I were obbessed for the whole weekend to find this song...purely for the reason of how awesome it is.

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  • @layneus

    Layne, don't even get me started on how much I raged.

  • this is what i called a "music"

  • @bebekmahal that's so true!

  • im tryin to arrange this for a little big band of 8 people.

  • we are working on playing this song in my jazz band at school. its real fun to play

  • This music will live forever!

  • classic, best song ever written

  • It is very encouraging to read notes of appreciation from so many young people. If you're not familiar with the other giants of jazz & swing, then check out Artie Shaw, Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey, Harry James, Paul Whiteman, Art Tatum, Thomas "Fats" Waller - and Larry Clinton & His Orchestra (largely unknown today, he was a composer, arranger & instrumentalist - trumpet, trombone & coronet, his arrangements are sheer perfection, his vocalists a joy, and he was a true gentleman and real nice guy.

  • @AJNorth Young people? Your profile says you're 37. :P

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