“Sing Sing Sing” by Benny Goodman Orchestra

Louis Prima wrote "Sing, Sing, Sing (with a Swing)" in 1936, words and music both, but of all the versions that followed, the one everybody knows is Benny Goodman's instrumental, recorded in Hollywood on July 6, 1937, with Jimmy Mundy handling the arrangement. It's a song welded to the big band and swing years.

The lineup is stacked: Goodman's clarinet out front, Gene Krupa behind the drum kit, a trumpet section of Harry James, Ziggy Elman and Chris Griffin, trombonists Red Ballard and Murray McEachern, Hymie Schertzer and George Koenig playing alto sax with Art Rollini and Vido Musso on tenor, plus Jess Stacy at the piano, Allan Reuss on guitar and Harry Goodman holding down the bass.

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