SING, SING, SING. This was the composition most closely associated with Benny Goodman's success; most notably, it was the unquestioned hit of his precedent-setting Carnegie Hall concert on January 16,1938. The tune had a modest origin. Originally it was just a popular song with words and music by Louis prima, a New Orleans trumpeter and vocalist who had enjoyed some popularity playing the small clubs on West 52nd Street. Jimmy Mundy, one of several talented arrangers who were contributing to the Goodman library, arranged the tune for Benny's Band;it was gradually elongated as extra passages were added, and had to be recorded on both sides of a 78 rpm disc at a session in Hollywood on July 6, 1937.
 
 

By the time the band performed it at Carnegie, the number had become a showcase not only for Benny, but for Harry James on trumpet, Jess Stacy on piano(whose solo interlude was praised as one of the highlights at Carnegie) and , most notably, for Gene Krupa. It might be said that Krupa's dramatic contribution to "SING, SING ,SING" was the precursor for the entire drum solo craze that began to dominate the big band scene. Wisely, Eddie Daniels and Gary Burton did not turn their version into a percussion extravaganza. Gary launches the milody;Eddie begins the ad lib sequences on the second chorus, and later indulges in a clarinet-and-drums passage(piano and bass are tacit) in the Goodman-krupa manner. The riff from a swing era tune called "Christopher Columbus," which became part of the Goodman version, is also briefly used here.