Where Swing is King!
“Trees” Composed by Oscar Rasbach, arranged by Abe (later Glenn) Osser. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra for Victor on December 23, 1937 in New York. Bunny Berigan, first and solo trumpet; directing: Steve Lipkins [..]
“High Society” Composed by Porter Steele and Walter Melrose; arranged by Joe Lippman. Recorded on September 13, 1938 by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra for Victor in New York City. Roland B. “Bunny” Berigan, first [..]
“You’ve Got Me Crying Again” Composed by Isham Jones (music) and Charles Newman (lyric); arranged by Victor Young. Recorded by the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra for ARC/Brunswick on March 7, 1933 in New York. Victor Young [..]
“Downstream” Composed by H. Lawrence, B. Nieson and Jay Milton; arranged by Joe Lippman. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra for Victor on March 15, 1938. Bunny Berigan, trumpet, directing: Steve Lipkins, first trumpet, [..]
“Tuxedo Junction” Composed by William Johnson, Julian Dash and Erskine Hawkins; head arrangement organized by William Johnson(*) and then modified by the Berigan band. (*) Gary Letts has advised: “Bunny is playing the published stock [..]
“Moten Swing” Composed by Bennie and Buster Moten; arranged by Ray Conniff. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra live from a broadcast over WABC-New York from Roseland Ballroom in New York City in October [..]
“Sobbin Blues” Composed by Art Kassel and Vic Berton; arranged by Joe Lippman. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra for Victor on November 22, 1938 in New York. Bunny Berigan, trumpet, directing: Johnny Napton, [..]
“Azure” Composed by Duke Ellington; arranged by Joe Lippman. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra for Victor on April 21, 1938 in New York. Bunny Berigan, first and solo trumpet, directing: Steve Lipkins and [..]
“The Wearin’ of the Green” Irish street ballad; arranged by Joe Lippman. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra for Victor on May 26, 1938 in New York. Roland Bernard “Bunny” Berigan, solo trumpet, directing: [..]
“Madhouse” Composed by Jimmy Mundy and Earl Hines; arranged by Jimmy Mundy. Recorded by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra for Victor on September 27, 1935 in Los Angeles. Benny Goodman, clarinet, directing: Bunny Berigan, first [..]
“Turn on That Red Hot Heat” Music by Louis Alter; lyric by Paul Francis Webster. Arranged by Joe Lippman. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra for Victor on August 7, 1937 in New [..]
“Mr. Ghost Goes to Town” Composed and arranged by Will Hudson. Recorded by the Hudson-DeLange Orchestra for Brunswick on June 20, 1936 in New York. Will Hudson, directing: Harry Rausch, James O’Connell and Ralph Hollenbeck, [..]
“Limehouse Blues” Composed by: Philip Braham (music) and Douglas Furber (lyric)(*); arranged by Benny Carter. Recorded by Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra for Decca on September 11, 1934 in New York. Fletcher Henderson, piano, directing: [..]
“Blue Lou” Composed by Edgar Sampson; arranged by Horace Henderson. Recorded by Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra for Vocalion on March 27, 1936 in Chicago. Fletcher Henderson, directing: Joe Thomas, first trumpet; Dick Vance and [..]
“Good-Bye” Composed and arranged by Gordon Jenkins. Recorded by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra for Victor in Hollywood on September 27, 1935. Benny Goodman, clarinet, directing: Bunny Berigan, first and solo trumpet; Ralph Muzzillo and [..]
“Swingin’ and Jumpin’” Composed and arranged by Horace Henderson. Recorded live in performance by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra from Manhattan Center in New York City on September 29, 1939. Bunny Berigan, trumpet, directing: Jake [..]
“Davenport Blues” Composed by Bix Beiderbecke; arranged by Joe Lippman. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Men for Victor on November 30, 1938 in New York. Bunny Berigan, first and solo trumpet, directing: Irving Goodman, [..]
“Jingle Bells” Composed by J.S. Pierpont; arranged by Lyle “Spud” Murphy. Recorded by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra for Victor on July 1, 1935 in New York. Benny Goodman, clarinet, directing: Bunny Berigan, first and [..]
“In a Mist” Composed by Bix Beiderbecke. Recorded by Bix Beiderbecke on piano for Okeh on September 9, 1927 in New York. The story: Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is unquestionably one of the great early figures [..]
“Sometimes I’m Happy” Composed by Vincent Youmans; arranged by Fletcher Henderson. Recorded by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra for Victor in New York on July 1, 1935. Benny Goodman, clarinet, directing: Bunny Berigan, first and [..]
“Mahogany Hall Stomp” Composed by Spencer Williams. Recorded by Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra for Okeh on March 5, 1929 in New York. Louis Armstrong, trumpet, directing: J.C.Higginbotham, trombone; Albert Nicholas and Charlie Holmes, alto [..]
“‘T’Aint So Honey, ‘T’Aint So” Composed by Willard Robison; arranger unknown, possibly Dick Rose. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra for Thesaurus Transcription Service on August 8-9, 1938 in New York. Bunny Berigan, first [..]
“Basin Street Blues” Composed by Spencer Williams; arranged by Glenn Miller. Recorded by Benny Goodman (as “The Charleston Chasers” under direction of Bennie Goodman) for Columbia on February 9, 1931 in New York. Benny Goodman, [..]
“Down by the Old Mill Stream” Composed by Tell Taylor and Arthur Clough; unknown arranger. Recorded live on October 31, 1936 from a broadcast of the Saturday Night Swing Club over the CBS radio network. Bunny [..]
“The Pied Piper” Composed by Buddy Arnold and Jack Gould; arranged by Joe Lippman. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra for Victor on June 8, 1938 in New York. Bunny Berigan, trumpet, directing: Steve [..]
“Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” Composed by Harold Arlen (music) and Ted Koehler (lyric); arranged by Fletcher Henderson. Recorded on July 1, 1935 by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra for Victor in [..]
“Caravan” Composed by Juan Tizol; arranged by Joe Lippman. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra on August 18, 1937 for Victor in New York. Bunny Berigan, trumpet, directing: Steve Lipkins, first trumpet; Irving Goodman, [..]
“Moten Swing” Composed by Bennie and Buster Moten; arranged by Ray Conniff. Recorded by Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra live from a broadcast over WABC-New York from Roseland Ballroom in New York City in October [..]
“Is That Religion?” Composed by Maceo Pinkard (music) and Mitchell Parish (lyric); arranged by Glenn Miller. Mildred Bailey accompanied by the Dorsey Brothers with Bunny Berigan. Recorded for Brunswick on April 8, 1933 in New [..]
