UNDERCURRENT BLUES - Benny Goodman Live 1949

Recorded from an Armed Forces Radio Service 'One Night Stand' radio transcription disc #1946. Contains 8 songs from Benny Goodman's band ans sextet recorded live form the Palladium in Los Angeles. It was played on radio October 1, 1949.

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• Benny
• Goodman
• Undercurrent
• Blues

[stratocat9999]

@fromthesidelines When they recorded this, they would have used two lathes (cutting a lacquer or acetate disc) so that there would be no gap. The AFRS discs were 'pressings' made from the original lacquers (or acetates, and later, tape). They would press maybe 100 to 200 discs of a single program to distribute to various military installations with radio capability. AFRS discs are the only ones I've ever seen with a complete 30 minute program on one disc instead of the usual two discs.

[fromthesidelines]

This is from a live March 22, 1949 late night network remote from the Palladium [network unknown at this time]; AFRS transcribed several of Goodman's Palladium appearances from that period for "ONE NIGHT STAND", issued to their stations several months after the original stateside broadcast. Note the "fade" at 4:03- AFRS had to quickly "turn their record over" to transcribe the remaining 15 minutes of the original broadcast...

[Playedback]

I really like Benny's bop recordings! I also have that Giants of Jazz 78rpm set, except there were just 2 of the original records left and the "Stealin' Apples" disc was the only one still playable, but I think it's mighty fine!

Many (maybe all??) of Benny's "bop" tunes are on a Capitol-Jazz CD, "Undercurrent Blues" from 1995... Thanks for sharing this 16" version!!

[SwingMan1937]

Ah, the "bop" side of Benny.

Unfortunately, I only have one of his cuts from around this period - a small group recording of "Stealin' Apples" featuring, among others, Fats Navarro shortly before his death in 1949 - part of a 3 disc 78rpm set based on the music from the movie "A Song Is Born", for, what the album says, The Damon Runyon Foundation.

[rsalvucc]

I've been trying to reconstruct Doug Mettome's career for quite some time. I didn't know this recording existed--it sounds more like a version I've heard, after Goodman canned Wardell Gray. In any event, I don't think too many people are aware of its existence.