St. Louis Blues - Benny Goodman (1936) - for the person looking for it

[InTheNeighborhood]

Somebodyin one of these groups was looking to find Goodman's version
of St. Louis Blues....here it is if you want to listen to it - not
bad, but absolutely nothing special:

http://www.jazz-on-line.com/a/ramc/VIC97748-1.ram

Is there a great Swing Era version of this song between 1935 and
1945? I suppose Armstrong's is the best, but I would put that in the
Jazz Age (circa 1925 - 1935).

Glenn Miller's doesn't do justice to the composition. Guy Lombardo's
version in the same year is, well, even more compelling than this
Goodman version, even. I know, I know...hard to believe.

larry ingersoll

[InTheNeighborhood]

I know...so you don't believe me....well, here's the Lombardo version
(that's Carmen Lombardo on that long held note, too:)

http://ia341216.us.archive.org/0/items/GuyLombardo-71-80/GuyLombardoHisRoyalCanadians-StLouisBlues1930.mp3

Can't you just picture those white-bread Royal Canadians singing those
raunchy lyrics live?

C'mon, c'mon...you know this was more fun than the dull Goodman.

-L.I.