1937/38 Jazz Concert No. 2

1937/38 Jazz Concert No. 2
Studio album by Benny Goodman and his orchestra, trio, and quartet
Released	1952
Label	Columbia
Benny Goodman and his orchestra, trio, and quartet chronology
The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (1950) 1937/38 Jazz Concert No. 2 (1952) BG in Hi-Fi (1954)

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2] [3]

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. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

Release

The album was released as a set of two 12-inch LPs (cat. no. SL-180) and as two separate volumes: Volume II (ML-4590) and Volume II (ML-4591). ^[7] All the three versions were also available as sets of 45-rpm records. ^[8]

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. ^{[9] [10]}

Reception

The album spent several consecutive weeks at number one on the 33⅓ r.p.m. half of Billboard's Best-Selling Popular Record Albums chart in late 1952 — early 1953. ^{[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]}

Track listing

2 × LP (Columbia Masterworks SL-180) ^[18]

Side 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Note(s)	Length
1.	"Let's Dance"	Baldridge Stone Bonine
2.	"Ridin' High"	Cole Porter
3.	"Nice Work If You Can Get It" (from Damsel in Distress )	I. Gershwin G. Gershwin
4.	"Vibraphone Blues"	L. Hampton	Vocal by Lionel Hampton
5.	"The Sheik of Araby"	H. Smith Wheeler Snyder
6.	"Peckin'"	Pollack H. James Ellington
7.	"Sunny Disposish"	I. Gershwin Charig
8.	"Nagasaki"	Dixon Warren
9.	"St. Louis Blues"	W. C. Handy

Side 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Note(s)	Length
1.	"Sugar Foot Stomp"	Oliver Armstrong
2.	"Moonglow"	Hudson De Lange I. Mills
3.	"I'm a Ding Dong Daddy (from Dumas)"	Baxter
4.	"I Hadn't Anyone till You"	R. Noble	Vocal: Martha Tilton
5.	"Always"	Berlin
6.	"Down South Camp Meetin'"	Henderson I. Mills
7.	"Sweet Leilani"	H. Owens
8.	"Sometimes I'm Happy"	Caesar Youmans
9.	"Roll 'Em"	M. Williams

Side 3

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Note(s)	Length
1.	"King Porter Stomp"	J. R. Morton
2.	"Have You Met Miss Jones" (from I'd Rather Be Right )	Hart Rodgers
3.	"Shine"	F. Dabney Mack L. Brown
4.	"Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day"	Koehler Arlen
5.	"Runnin' Wild"	J. Grey L. Wood Gibbs
6.	"You Turned the Tables on Me"	S. Mitchell Alter	Vocal: Helen Ward
7.	"At the Darktown Strutters' Ball"	S. Brooks
8.	"My Gal Sal"	Dresser
9.	"Bugle Call Rag"	Pettis Meyers Schoebel

Side 4

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Clarinet Marmalade"	Shields Ragas
2.	"Time on My Hands (You in My Arms)" (from Smiles )
3.	"Stardust"	Carmichael Parish
4.	"Benny Sent Me"	B. Goodman
5.	"Everybody Loves My Baby"	Palmer S. Williams
6.	"Josephine"	Kahn W. King Bivens
7.	"Killer Diller"	B. Goodman Mundy
8.	"Someday Sweetheart"	J. Spikes B. Spikes
9.	"Caravan"	Ellington Tizol
10.	"Goodbye"	G. Jenkins

Charts

Chart (1952–53)	Peak position
US Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums – 33⅓ R.P.M. [12]	1

See also

• List of Billboard number-one albums of 1952
• List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1953

References

1. "The Complete 1937-38 Jazz Concert No. 2 - Benny Goodman". AllMusic . Retrieved October 20, 2025.
2. Larkin, Colin (1998). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Dutch Swing College Band-Heptones. ISBN   978-0-333-74134-4.
3. The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin. 2004. ISBN   978-1-85227-183-1.
4. "Music Popularity Charts". Billboard . November 1, 1952.
5. "Columbia Counter-Points". Billboard . Nielsen Business Media, Inc. October 25, 1952 – via Google Books.
6. "Great Mr. G". Billboard . Nielsen Business Media, Inc. November 1, 1952 – via Google Books.
7. "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. November 8, 1952 – via Google Books.
8. "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. April 4, 1953 – via Google Books.
9. Jazz-rock: A History. Canongate Books. 1998. ISBN   978-0-86241-817-5.
10. "Benny Goodman - On The Air (1937-1938)" – via www.discogs.com.
11. "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. December 20, 1952 – via Google Books.
12. "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. December 27, 1952 – via Google Books.
13. "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. January 10, 1953 – via Google Books.
14. "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. January 17, 1953 – via Google Books.
15. "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. January 24, 1953 – via Google Books.
16. "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. January 31, 1953 – via Google Books.
17. "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. February 7, 1953 – via Google Books.
18. "Benny Goodman And His Orchestra, Trio And Quartet – 1937-38 Jazz Concert No. 2 – 2 x Vinyl (LP, Album), 1952". 1952 – via Discogs.