I’m listing this album as Benny Goodman’s Sing, Sing, Sing, because this is the original very first issue of this amazing record, from 1937. It originally came in this rare album called A Symposium of Swing, featuring four discs, each by a different big band. The first disc is Benny Goodman’s orchestra playing Sing, Sing, Sing in two parts, one on each side. This is the original issue of this classic. The single versions were pressed later and don’t sound as good as this one, with a fresh master. It is like the hard rock of its day, a totally wild and unbelievably rollicking 12 minutes or so of relentless hard swing. Gene Krupa just goes out of his mind on this recording, and so do the rest of the band, including Goodman himself. One of the all-time greatest recordings of any jazz music. But that’s not all… there is a disc here by Fats Waller, one by Tommy Dorsey, and one by Bunny Berigan, doing his almost equally famous version of I Can’t Get Started. The other two are classics in their own right, with Waller doing an amazing Honeysuckle Rose, and Dorsey doing his legendary Stop, Look and Listen. This is some of the best swing music of the whole era. All three 12” 78rpm discs are in excellent shape with only light signs of use. They all play just beautifully. The cover only has light edge and corner wear, but the spine is intact and the binding is strong. And this copy also comes with the impossibly rare booklet! I have actually never seen another one. So rare…

Anyhow this is the absolutely original 1937 first pressing, not one of the later reissues. So the sound is tremendous… and it is so much rarer. This is an absolutely incredible original set, near impossible to beat.