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1937/38 Jazz Concert No. 2
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AllMusic 5 5https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-complete-1937-38-jazz-concert-no-2-mw0000922414 The Complete 1937-38 Jazz Concert No. 2 - Benny Goodman AllMusic 2025-10-20 The Encyclopedia of Popular Music 3 5Larkin Colin The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Dutch Swing College Band-Heptones 1998 978-0-333-74134-4 https://books.google.com/books?id=MOr0AAAAMAAJ&q=1937+38+Jazz+Concert+No.+2+Benny+Goodman The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz 2004 Virgin 978-1-85227-183-1 https://books.google.com/books?id=pJo7AQAAIAAJ&q=1937+38+Jazz+Concert+No.+2+Benny+Goodman
1937/38 Jazz Concert No. 2 is a double LP album by Benny Goodman and his orchestra, trio, and quartet released by Columbia Records in 1952.https://books.google.com/books?id=pR8EAAAAMBAJ&dq=1937+38+Jazz+Concert+No.+2&pg=PA42 Music Popularity Charts Billboard 1 November 1952 https://books.google.com/books?id=UyAEAAAAMBAJ&dq=1937+38+Jazz+Concert+No.+2+Benny+Goodman&pg=PA59 Columbia Counter-Points Billboard October 25, 1952 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Google Bookshttps://books.google.com/books?id=pR8EAAAAMBAJ&dq=1937+38+Jazz+Concert+No.+2+Benny+Goodman&pg=PA45 Great Mr. G Billboard November 1, 1952 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Google Books
Release
The album was released as a set of two 12 in on LPs (cat. no. SL-180) and as two separate volumes: Volume II (ML-4590) and Volume II (ML-4591).https://books.google.com/books?id=dB8EAAAAMBAJ&dq=1937+38+Jazz+Concert+No.+2+Benny+Goodman&pg=PA50 Billboard November 8, 1952 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Google Books All the three versions were also available as sets of 45-rpm records.https://books.google.com/books?id=MAsEAAAAMBAJ&dq=1937+38+Jazz+Concert+No.+2+Benny+Goodman&pg=PA29 Billboard April 4, 1953 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Google Books
The album was later reissued on Legacy in the CD format under the title Benny Goodman on the Air 1937–38, with some tracks added.Jazz-rock: A History 1998 Canongate Books 978-0-86241-817-5 https://books.google.com/books?id=aDUYAQAAIAAJ&q=1937+38+Jazz+Concert+No.+2+Benny+Goodman
Reception
The album spent several consecutive weeks at number one on the 33 1 3 rpm half of Billboards Best-Selling Popular Record Albums chart in late 1952 — early 1953.https://books.google.com/books?id=DCAEAAAAMBAJ&dq=1937+38+Jazz+Concert+No.+2+Benny+Goodman&pg=PA34 Billboard December 20, 1952 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Google Bookshttps://books.google.com/books?id=rB8EAAAAMBAJ&dq=1937+38+Jazz+Concert+No.+2+Benny+Goodman&pg=PA48 Billboard December 27, 1952 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Google Bookshttps://books.google.com/books?id=HQsEAAAAMBAJ&dq=1937+38+Jazz+Concert+No.+2+Benny+Goodman&pg=PA28 Billboard January 10, 1953 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Google Bookshttps://books.google.com/books?id=GQsEAAAAMBAJ&dq=1937+38+Jazz+Concert+No.+2+Benny+Goodman&pg=PA46 Billboard January 17, 1953 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Google Bookshttps://books.google.com/books?id=KwsEAAAAMBAJ&dq=1937+38+Jazz+Concert+No.+2+Benny+Goodman&pg=PA30 Billboard January 24, 1953 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Google Bookshttps://books.google.com/books?id=KQsEAAAAMBAJ&dq=1937+38+Jazz+Concert+No.+2+Benny+Goodman&pg=PA30 Billboard January 31, 1953 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Google Bookshttps://books.google.com/books?id=8QwEAAAAMBAJ&dq=1937+38+Jazz+Concert+No.+2+Benny+Goodman&pg=PA32 Billboard February 7, 1953 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Google Books
Track listing 2 × LP' (Columbia Masterworks SL-180)
Side 1 Note(s) Let's Dance Baldridge
Stone
Bonine Ridin' High Cole Porter Nice Work If You Can Get It from Damsel in Distress I. Gershwin
G. Gershwin Vibraphone Blues L. Hampton Vocal by Lionel Hampton The Sheik of Araby H. Smith
Wheeler
Snyder Peckin' Pollack
H. James
Ellington Sunny Disposish I. Gershwin
Charig Nagasaki Dixon
Warren St. Louis Blues W. C. Handy
Side 2 Note(s) Sugar Foot Stomp Oliver
Armstrong Moonglow Hudson
De Lange
I. Mills I'm a Ding Dong Daddy (from Dumas) Baxter I Hadn't Anyone till You R. Noble Vocal: Martha Tilton Always Berlin Down South Camp Meetin' Henderson
I. Mills Sweet Leilani H. Owens Sometimes I'm Happy Caesar
Youmans Roll 'Em M. Williams
Side 3 Note(s) King Porter Stomp J. R. Morton Have You Met Miss Jones from I'd Rather Be Right Hart
Rodgers Shine F. Dabney
Mack
L. Brown Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day Koehler
Arlen Runnin' Wild J. Grey
L. Wood
Gibbs You Turned the Tables on Me S. Mitchell
Alter Vocal: Helen Ward At the Darktown Strutters' Ball S. Brooks My Gal Sal Dresser Bugle Call Rag Pettis
Meyers
Schoebel
Side 4 Clarinet Marmalade Shields
Ragas Time on My Hands (You in My Arms) from Smiles Adamson
Gordon
Youmans Stardust Carmichael
Parish Benny Sent Me B. Goodman Everybody Loves My Baby Palmer
S. Williams Josephine Kahn
W. King
Bivens Killer Diller B. Goodman
Mundy Someday Sweetheart J. Spikes
B. Spikes Caravan Ellington
Tizol Goodbye G. Jenkins
Charts
Chart (1952–53) Peakposition US Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums – 33 1 3 RPM 1
See also
List of Billboard number-one albums of 1952
List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1953
References
Category:1952 albums
Category:Columbia Records live albums
Category:Benny Goodman albums