Benny Goodman Sextet Session

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Benny Goodman Sextet Session
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Studio album by
the Benny Goodman Sextet
Released1946
Label Columbia
The Benny Goodman Sextet chronology
Benny Goodman's Sextet
(1944)		Benny Goodman Sextet Session
(1946)

Benny Goodman Sextet Session is a studio album by the Benny Goodman Sextet released by Columbia Records in 1946. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Contents

The album was released as a set of four 10-inch 78-rpm phonograph records (cat. no. C-113). [7]

Reception

The New Yorker wrote upon the album's release: "The Benny Goodman Sextet turns up in a Columbia album (C-113) with eight brilliantly done pieces". [6]

The album spent three weeks at number one on Billboard's Best-Selling Popular Record Albums chart. [8] [9]

Track listing

Set of four 10-inch 78-rpm records (Columbia set C-113) [7]

All the tracks are marked as "fox trot".

Side 1
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Tiger Rag" Original Dixieland Jazz Band  
Side 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Ain't Misbehavin'"Razaf–Waller–Harper 
Side 3
No.TitleWriter(s)Note(s)Length
1."She's Funny That Way"Moret–WhitingVocal chorus by Jane Harvey 
Side 4
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Got Rhythm" (from Girl Crazy) I. Gershwin—G. Gershwin  
Side 5
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Just One of Those Things" Cole Porter  
Side 6
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."China Boy"Boutelja–Winfree 
Side 7
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Shine"Mack—L. Brown—Dabney 
Side 8
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Rachel's Dream"Goodman 

Charts

Chart (1946)Peak
position
US Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums [8] 1

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Advance Record Releases". Billboard . 6 April 1946.
  2. ↑ Collier's. Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. October 1946.
    Life. Time Incorporated. October 1946.
  3. ↑ "Billboard". 6 April 1946.
  4. ↑ Records for the Millions. Hermitage Press. 1948.
  5. ↑ The Billboard Encyclopedia of Music. 1946.
  6. 1 2 The New Yorker. F-R Publishing Corporation. 1946. Benny Goodman Sextet turns up in a Columbia album (C-113) with eight brilliantly done pieces. They are "Tiger Rag," "Ain't Misbehavin'", "She's Funny That Way,"
  7. 1 2 "Benny Goodman Sextet – Benny Goodman Sextet Session – 4 x Shellac (10-, 78 RPM, Album), 1946". 1946 – via Discogs.
  8. 1 2 "Billboard". June 1946.
  9. ↑ See List of Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums number ones of 1946.
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