Benny's Girls: Goodman's Rare Songbirds

Benny's Girls: Goodman's Rare Songbirds

Benny's Girls: Goodman's Rare Songbirds

ASIN: B0002LO7FG

Track Listings
 
1. It Happens to the Best of Friends - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Anne Graham
2. Rendezvous Time in Paree - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Louise Tobin
3. Blue Orchids - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Louise Tobin
4. Love Never Went to College {From Too Many Girls} - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Louise Tobin
5. Scatter-Brain - Benny Goodman Sextet, Louise Tobin
6. She's Funny That Way - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Jane Harvey
7. You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me [Alternate Take][#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Jane Harvey
8. Ev'ry Time (Ev'ry Time I Fall in Love) [Alternate Take][#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Jane Harvey
9. Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread [#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Jane Harvey
10. June Is Bustin' Out All Over {From Carousel} - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Kay Penton
11. Ain't Misbehavin' [#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Kay Penton
12. My Head Says Yes But My Heart Says No [#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Dottie Reid
13. How Little We Know [#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Dottie Reid
14. I'm Gonna Love That Guy (Like He's Never Been Loved Before) [Alternate] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Dottie Reid
15. That's All That Matters to Me [#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Liza Morrow
16. Fishin' for the Moon [#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Liza Morrow
17. I Wish I Could Tell You {From Give Me the Simple Life} - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Liza Morrow
18. Sweet I've Gotten on You (The Pennsylvania Dutch Song) [#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Liza Morrow
19. For You, For Me, For Evermore {From the Shocking Miss Pilgrim} - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Eve Young
20. That's the Beginning of the End [#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Eve Young
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Benny's Girls: Goodman's Rare Songbirds
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Gordon Anderson does it again!
  • Unsung Canaries
 Benny's Girls: Goodman's Rare Songbirds
Benny Goodman
Manufacturer: Collector's Choice
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002LO7FG
Release Date: 2005-02-15

Tracks:

  1. It Happens to the Best of Friends - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Anne Graham
  2. Rendezvous Time in Paree - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Louise Tobin
  3. Blue Orchids - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Louise Tobin
  4. Love Never Went to College [From Too Many Girls] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Louise Tobin
  5. Scatter-Brain - Benny Goodman Sextet, Louise Tobin
  6. She's Funny That Way - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Jane Harvey
  7. You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me [Alternate Take][#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Jane Harvey
  8. Ev'ry Time (Ev'ry Time I Fall in Love) [Alternate Take][#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Jane Harvey
  9. Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread [#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Jane Harvey
  10. June Is Bustin' Out All Over [From Carousel] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Kay Penton
  11. Ain't Misbehavin' [#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Kay Penton
  12. My Head Says Yes But My Heart Says No [#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Dottie Reid
  13. How Little We Know [#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Dottie Reid
  14. I'm Gonna Love That Guy (Like He's Never Been Loved Before) - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Dottie Reid
  15. That's All That Matters to Me [#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Liza Morrow
  16. Fishin' for the Moon [#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Liza Morrow
  17. I Wish I Could Tell You [From Give Me the Simple Life] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Liza Morrow
  18. Sweet I've Gotten on You (The Pennsylvania Dutch Song) [#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Liza Morrow
  19. For You, For Me, For Evermore [From The Shocking Miss Pilgrim] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Eve Young
  20. That's the Beginning of the End [#] - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Eve Young
  21. Man Here Plays Fine Piano - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Eve Young
  22. Then You've Never Been Blue - Benny Goodman Sextet,
  23. Toodle-Lee-Yoo-Doo - Benny Goodman Sextet,

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Gordon Anderson does it again!.......2007-06-10

The "Truth" about this CD is: It is actually a compilation of songs that have been OVERLOOKED on previous CD reissues. "Scatterbrain", a hit for BG in 1939, being a perfect example. This CD is like, "Fill In the Blanks." As a performing artist, Benny Goodman never missed, and this CD proves it. These songs are actually taken from a list of tunes that I sent to Gordon Anderson because he did such a good job of bringing back forgotten music. The reason why various songbirds are featured here is because some of them didn't last long, but collectively they recorded enough tunes to fill a present-day CD.

4 out of 5 stars Unsung Canaries.......2006-07-20

Although there were singers that Benny Goodman admired (i.e., Billie Holiday, Mildred Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald), he didn't like having vocalists on his payroll. During the Thirties and Forties, being hired and fired by Goodman was almost a rite of passage for any canary worth her salt. "Benny's Girls" is an interesting collection of some of the many women who sang for the King of Swing. Although Goodman went through half a dozen vocalists after Helen Ward quit the band in 1936, the Thirties are represented by only two singers: Ann Graham (1934), who sounds like Ward with a Southern accent, and Louise Tobin (1939), an underrated, under-recorded singer who'd also worked with Jack Jenney and Will Bradley. Three of the four Tobin tracks are disposable pop. "Untitled Blues", however, reveals a singer who belongs in the same class as Kay Starr and Teddy Grace, but whose potential was never realized. Bypassing Helen Forrest, Peggys Lee & Mann, et al., the disc jumps ahead six years to Jane Harvey, a cabaret singer who could handle sweet and swing with equal aplomb. "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" and the bluesy "Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread" make one wish that she'd stayed with the band for a couple more recording sessions. Harvey is followed by Kay Penton, whose discography is entirely too small, and Dottie Reid, who sounds like a young Peggy Lee. Liza Morrow, yet another Goodman Girl of 1945, had attracted attention with her distinctive sound the previous year, when she filled in for Lee Wiley at Eddie Condon's Town Hall concerts. Her big hit with Goodman, "Symphony", isn't on this album, but "That's All That Matters to Me" is a particularly fine performance. Eve Young, a singer in the Doris Day mold, and Nancy Reed, the lone Fifties representative, round out the album. While I don't think anyone really needs tunes like "Scatterbrain" or "Sweet I've Gotten on You" in their collection, it's a nice compilation and puts the spotlight back on some worthy singers who might otherwise be overlooked.

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