What's your favorite song from 1937?

[Ptah]

“Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)” Benny Goodman

[MiltonBrown]

1. Bob Wills- Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas

[Ptah]

4. That's a fun one!

[MiltonBrown]

7. Thanks!

There's a lot of fun music from the 20s 30s and 40s

[Glorfindel]

2. Indian Love Call

Nelson Eddy and Jeannette McDonald

[Ptah]

5. That's a good one.

[Glorfindel]

11. A funny thing about that song. I don't know if it's true or not

But evidently the sheet music reached the UK before any recordings of it, so at first, having nothing to go by, the British performers sang it as: "When I'm calling you..double O, double O..."

I hope it's true!

[Generic Brad]

3. I have to agree with you on your selection

By far, that is the best song of 1937. It has held up all these years.

[Ptah]

9. My understanding is that the Carnegie hall performance

was a smashing success. At the beginning, the audience was skeptical, but by the middle, became enthusiastic.

[First Speaker]

6. Bunny Berigan--I Can't Get Started...

...Berigan was a terrific singer, and a great trumpet player. Probably the best jazz trumpeter of the Swing Era, except for Armstrong--duh!--and Roy Eldridge...

[LeftInTX]

8. Love Sing Sing Sing!!!

Ranks up there as one of my all time favorites.

[red dog 1]

10. Goodnight, My Love - Ella Fitzgerald

[Leith]

12. IMHO, Sing Sing Sing Is the Best of the Big Band Era

I grew up listening to my mother's old 78s. I knew all the words to every song that had words and every instrument's part of the whole piece.