Can you identify this great swing tune?

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  1. Quoflector

    Quoflector New Member Thread Starter

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    I want to play this tune on YouTube but can't because I don't know its title. It's the introductory swing tune, played for 30 seconds, for the attached YouTube video.
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  2. David*M

    David*M Forum Resident

    I don't know exactly which recording is used as the intro in this video, but the song being played is "Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing)" - written by Louis Prima and immortalized by Benny Goodman & His Orchestra. The version used in the video sounds more modern than Goodman's recording from the mid-1930s, but if you search YouTube for "Sing Sing Sing" you should find no shortage of versions.

    Here's Goodman's original studio recording (also check out his 12+ minute live version from his 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall).

     
  3. Glenn Christense

    Glenn Christense Foremost Beatles expert... on my block

    Yes; with Gene Krupa on drums, correct ?
     
  4. Hey Vinyl Man

    Hey Vinyl Man Another bloody Yank down under...

    I believe so.
    When Peggy Lee became Goodman's singer a few years later, the crowds at their concerts would often call out for "Sing Sing Sing" - she didn't know that was the title of the song and she thought they were egging her on to sing louder.
     
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  5. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

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    They woulda figured it out, if she'd walked over to make Krupa give her the drum stool...("Hmmm...nope, THAT ain't it-!")
     
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