Me: Say Janie, I’m having a great time dancing with you tonight. You’re lighting up like I haven’t seen before. Janie: I’ll say handsome! I’m having the best night of my life! I don’t know how it could get any better. Me: Have you ever been to the hot springs? Janie: Why no! Are they really hot? Me: Of course! And afterward, since were by it, I’ll drive you up the mountain in my Cadillac so you can see every light in town! Janie: What a swell idea! I’ve never been on a mountain either. Will we be safe? Me: Baby as long as you’re with me, you don’t have to worry bout nothin! One more dance and we’ll split this joint. Janie: Oh how much I love you! You know how to have a good time. We stare into each other’s sapphire eyes and share a kiss on the dance floor of the casa cabana.
All comments from YouTube:
jr 55
I'm a 65 yr old man who's listened to rock and metal for most of his life. This song and a few others of similar quality just put me in a nostalgic trance for something I never actually experienced. Great music is transcendent.
loril diamond
I know, this is just so classic. Everyone can enjoy it. Truly timeless.
loril diamond
So true, I can come back to this time and time again. I wasn't born when "swing" was prevalent. Was lucky enough to catch this in an old movie. They need to bring it back for the new generations!
Karen O'Shaughnessy
This would have been my parents’ and grandparents’ time, and I love this music!
littlezig59
You remind me of my grandpa. He liked that tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Dan Lunham
I'm with you. My dad, a jazz bassist who played his first gigs in the mid-30s as Goodman, et al were elevating culture, was convinced that, had not World War II stolen the zeitgeist, jazz was so powerful a democratizing influence social and political change would have come along for the ride, the same aesthetically elevating ride.
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marilyn baumann
When I listen to these great big bands I think of my mom and dads era. There will never be great music like this ever so I treasure it.
kiki taube-hansen
My father loved this song. It was played at his funeral. It´s also one of my favourite songs :)
Kriger270
May he rest in peace
Rachel Bradley
I'm 53 and love it. And I know 30-somethings who like this music, too. Good music never goes out of style, yo.
Cataa
Im 16 and I love this type of music too!!
Macacos bacanas
im 14 and i love it!
Mthobeli Nathan Heshu
A beautiful jazz song that brings memories to me. Thank you for posting!
Demp !
I'm in my 20s this music is before even my grandma's time but I still really dig big band,swing and classic americana aesthetic
Michelle Post
I have loved this tune for years. Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller were tops. I used to have several of their LPs. On I Love Lucy, Lucy jitterbugged to this tune, and did it well.
Jarrod Barkley
Yes! Ricky's band did a great rendition of this song.
John Smith
My all-time favorite Benny Goodman song. It's also one of his best to dance to!
Armando Bruno
Se pudesse voltar no tempo, gostaria de estar numa noite de sabado, no Savoy, com Benny Goodman tocando esta musica.Uau!
Ricardo Plata
Musica sin fronteras quien la comprenda la hara perdurar saludos de juarez, chihuahua
Pom Pom7x7
and from Geneva, 🇨🇭🎼🎷
johnandbarbara clark
I just keep listening and listening to this fabulous music of my youth. Just how easy it is to listen to real swing - and how difficult it is to play it like that. I'm 74 but will keep trying for as long as I can pick up a pair of sticks
Sheev Palpatine
As a high schooler, I am trying my best to learn how to swing correctly so that I can help carry forth the tradition of actual music. I can't get enough of this stuff!
PasswordBosco
Can't even imagine sitting in a booth with your girl, having a few drinks and listening to this music, dancing some. No wonder there are so many baby boomers. Mama said yes more than she said no.... Ha ! Love it.
lawrence myers
I swear I was born 30 years too late (1955) as I've always loved this music as long as I can remember. It never gers old.
Ignacio Alcantara
Inolvidable esta melodía con BENNY GOODMAN
Turner D
How I wish I was living at this time. Such beautiful music...respectable dress....Good manners ..roles clearly defined!! Sigh.....
Rajnoma
I heard this today on Boston's 740FM, the classic "oldies but goodies" station, and told someone that it was "Stompin' at the Savoy". I wanted to listen again to be sure and I was! I'm 70, a Baby Boomer who loves this beautiful music of days gone by. My parents(now deceased) danced to this and other Big Band favorites at the Totem Ball Ballroom that was in Norembega Park (Auburnadale, Mass.), sadly no longer in existence as it burned down back in 1967 and a Holiday Inn stands there now; the dances of yesteryear only a memory to those who knew of Norumbega Park (it, too, is long gone). Tender memories of my folks and the music they enjoyed and which I, too, love.
Rett
Rajnoma I'm from Massachusetts too! Much younger though, I was born at cooly dick in chesterfield in the year 2000. I love this music. it makes me wonder what life was like back then, I wish I had been around to see it.
Dreyaha
Interesting that I was thinking about my music style when I realized that the reason I don't care for the music nowadays is because it isn't real music. I'm a teenager, but I play trumpet so I realize how hard it is to improv and transpose, so knowing that the majority of music nowadays takes two hours to make, 100% computer generated makes me appreciate it less.
KathyG1
Rajnoma Hi. I'm 69 and I'm a retired nurse. Worked in a major med center in Los Angeles until I retired. I had a patient in the 80's.. a nice old man who, while recovering from surgery, listened to "jazz" on his tape player. Long story short, he introduced me to this type of music. I LOVE it to this day!! He made me 2 tapes that I played in my car a lot. Mood Indigo, and so many others. I had no idea this type of music existed. But I love it and am so thankful that I learned about it. Glad you like it too!
boomer1954ful
I'm a boomer, so that makes my parents the pre-WW II kids. My parents told me both fun and sad stories. Both their families were very poor - but lots of families were, so it didn't matter that much. Neighbors shared food with each other. The general idea I got from them is that life was VERY simple (NO computers, electronics, etc. maybe one out of seven households even had a telephone) The modern refrigerator used to be called the "Ice Box" because it was, literally, an insulated box with a big block of ice in it! My mom & grandma still always referred to our fridge as the 'Ice Box'.
Elders were much more respected without question or argument, and everybody walked everywhere or took a bus. You were rich to own a bicycle. Also, though, people died of viruses and pneumonia much more often because they didn't have flu shots and childhood inoculations like they do now. My mother had deafness in one ear from a childhood bout of Scarlet Fever. My father's father died of some virus and they couldn't even have a proper funeral because the entire house and family was quarantined by the county health department to prevent the spread of whatever dreadful illness it was.
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Lee Kosmin
Had loved this piece of music for many years, without knowing the name of it. Before covid, I was on holiday and eating at a 30s style joint and it was playing, so I asked the waitress to find out who and what it was. Good stuff to listen to during isolation.
Worldwide Ghosts - Channel
Lovely tune, a real classic. Benny and the fellas knew how to do it!
rabdo doggy
This can give you goose bumps.
Francisco Lira
magnífico!!!
HK Kalimatron
Epoca dorada la de Goodman, aun sigue vigente para los que les gusta la buena música, ¡mum! para bailar en pareja :)
Barry Hill
LOVE THIS SONG
Anthony Flynn
Timeless music is timeless.
Harry Bailey
Now, this is what i call MUSIC!!!!
Guilherme Fernandes
Algum brasileiro por aqui para apreciar essa obra de arte?
Robert McFadyen
I had a breakfast radio program for several years and presented documentary specials each weekday and covered Benny Goodman and a multitude of other artists. Hard work but worth it when I had a loyal audience. I took requests as well .
Takuma Nhm
damn, I wish I could experience what it was like to be in WW2 and being with my fellow soldiers. I really feel something for this type of music.#Rip Louis Zamperini and all the fellow soldiers who fought for the world
Zen Bidwell
Matthew Thomas you don't wish you was in ww2, I promise you.
Doctor Nemmo
It wasn’t fun.
Parker Ingalls
just fantastic. what an era it was !!
WILLIAM WATSON
Classic!!! I Can only imagine the atmosphere that "The Greatest Generation" must have enjoyed.
Rogelio ibarra meraz
como debieron de divertirse y bailar toda la noche con este ritmo que barbaro¡¡¡¡¡
Peter Shaw
Im 74 years old from Wales. And my father and I. Loved swing because he taught me how. And BG was the example to behold.. my kids, now in their 50s, also love this superb music as do my grand children's. Thank God for this Music and Sinatra.
Wolf359
I heard this song back in 1989 my dad used to do model railroads and would play it for me all the time
Barry Hill
FANTASTIC. OLD. MUSIC. I. LOVE IT
Cherry Moth
Such beutiful music😊
chivauk
Who's going to be hip and say something like "Those cats sure could swing"?
Ohh! I just did!
Tessa Morgan
Wonderful rhythm
Travis Korn
I'm playing this in my Jazz Band Auditions
Lou Skum
I really enjoy the vibe this is putting out there.😊
jenny_jenny_nc
love and respect to Mr Goodman and You for posting such a grand tune. tk you
r
After some time since discovering this music, I have gone across youtube commenting on many videos like this saying that it makes me nostalgic for what America once was: A shining city on a hill. We were the country that the world looked up to. Listening to this gives me visions of families in their beautiful suburban houses. Boys and girls playing at the park. The Chicago Bears playing a game against the Detroit Lions, and the towers of New York. I can't quite understand it, but I'm glad that I get these feelings. Hmm.
Libra Smith
My grandparents grew up on the best music 🎶.
Robert McFadyen
When I heard Percy Faith and Felicia Sanders " Theme From A Summer Place ", my heart went to water as a boy in the 1970's . I was watching the movie on Television at the time . From then on , I was hooked .
Rogers Wilson
Although credit for ‘Stompin’ in the public mind is given to Goodman, the tune was was actually written and arranged by black sax player Edgar Sampson. Just so you know.
SunsetSix
So much more refined that Chick Webb's version. This is MUSIC!
Jody Wilke
I wonder if Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw ever had a contest, to see who could play their clarinet the best?😊💒
Roberto García
I think that would be unnecessary, yesterday o nowadays. Tehey were te best out of any contest
The Minecraft Haag
I think Artie Shaw could win
sdaäjakls -lasdknf
how could you dislike this?
Jasmine Dupree
I have literally looked for this song for 3 years. Then i remembered tonight i heard it on i love lucy...sighhhhh i miss this time. This era...as though im re-incarnated
DieselGuitar
When I first heard this song I actually felt like it was connected to some hidden memory as if I listened to it in a past life. I don't know what to think of reincarnation but I'll say that listening this song in particular was one of the moments in my life where I felt most as if I could be experiencing a side effect of reincarnation. It's like how you can tap into childhood joy by listening to music that you haven't listened to much since childhood, but I don't consciously remember listening to this any number of years ago.
Lee Kosmin
Sweet and dandy. Style personified. Thanks
dojeret outsold
Love this
Bill Thehat
Luv this song! Humorous sidenote- Chic Web did a very up - tempo version of this and called Benny Goodman's very "Snoozin at the Savoy".
Old Man Walking
I’m with Chic Web. This doesn’t sound like stomping at the Savoy or anyplace else. I heard a tune on the radio with heavy thumping on the bass drum and Benny Goodman playing quietly in the background for a while then upping the volume on his clarinet to a crescendo. The announcer said that was “Stomping at the Savoy”. If anyone knows the name of what I heard please let me know. Thanks
j Kara
Once you have tasted that type of music, well its like gourmet food! You can't get back to junk....
Howard Lewis
Warm music encouraging a person to swing on the dance floor
monica bella
It's the highest level of musicianship!
Lisa Selby
Exactly! That's why I can't stand Rap and more modern music. Dad taught me to love this music. I do. It is the best, as are the singers--Tony Bennett, Julie London from Santa Rosa, CA, Billy Eckstein, Ella Fitzgerald and others.
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Megan Philip
Thanks to I Love Lucy for first introducing me to this gem. I love to play this sped up to 1.25x on the playback setting. I think because they played it a little faster on I love Lucy.
Jack Ryan
I ca see myself just driving down a road with this on am radio back in the 40s
MrPizza063
actually it was in the 1930's still it would of been a different era and amazing
Sir Damian
MrPizza063 this song might be from the 30’s but this was still the way of music in the 40’s. The 50’s is where post war change happened
hudson2441
If you were you were the rich guy who sprang for the radio at the dealership.
JerseyCentral833
@Sir Damian 1930s and 40s correct
Marc Dymock
Such a hooky melody 👌
Daniel Bahzad
"It wasn't impossible to build a City at the bottom of the Ocean, It was impossible to build Rapture anywhere else"
Miguel Ángel Capone
Impresionante !!!
Barry Hill
Love the Big band Era
Countryman Randylewis
Beautiful
MrPoupard
Music from a world you can never visit.
Jason Tucher
Me: Say Janie, I’m having a great time dancing with you tonight. You’re lighting up like I haven’t seen before. Janie: I’ll say handsome! I’m having the best night of my life! I don’t know how it could get any better. Me: Have you ever been to the hot springs? Janie: Why no! Are they really hot? Me: Of course! And afterward, since were by it, I’ll drive you up the mountain in my Cadillac so you can see every light in town! Janie: What a swell idea! I’ve never been on a mountain either. Will we be safe? Me: Baby as long as you’re with me, you don’t have to worry bout nothin! One more dance and we’ll split this joint. Janie: Oh how much I love you! You know how to have a good time. We stare into each other’s sapphire eyes and share a kiss on the dance floor of the casa cabana.
Matthew
Nice
Countryman Randylewis
Wow how wild
Ted Grevers III
My favorite goodman song. Anyone else?
dojeret outsold
Mine too, swing swing is also a good one
WildwoodClaire1
yeah, its my favorite too.
johnandbarbara clark
This and King Porter Stomp. Completely different but both simply SWING
J Lang
Moonglow
Jim Grosso
This and Don't be that way.
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Tropical Horizon Gaming
I love this
Berch Willard
Miss the big band music.
BlenderC
Playing this in jazz band 😁
Jordyn Bowers
If Only samee
r
you are LUCKY and you prolly don't even realize it...I would DIE TO PLAY THAT SONG IN MY BAND
LethalCactus
Same but its more an orchestra than a jazz band so we have to endure the violins...
Amrob
Played it my freshman year, two years later and it's still stuck in my head
John rowley
Love this ,
PasswordBosco
A time when MUSICIANS had to play their instruments and the recording equipment wasn't as "sophisticated" (fake bullshit ) as it is now. Pure genius.
jr 55
You had to actually work it out on your instrument instead of solving it out by pushing a button.
tomthefunky
My grandmother spent every Saturday night at the Savoy. She grew up in White Harlem.
Harry Bailey
This is when Music was Music!!!
Cynthia Heath
So true when it comes to love
1950mendoza
Thank you for your comment. Also I liked Duke Ellignton and Count Basie. Favorite others are Dave Brubeck, Louis Armstrong, Barney Bigard and the great Billie Holliday.
jaybone23
Must be Woody Allen's favorite song.
Rachel Bermudez
I remember it as the song Lucy Ricardo did her jitterbug routine to.
C J E
I heard this on an episode of I love lucy- "Lucy has her eyes examined". The Desi Arnaz orchestra does a better version I think.
Bobby Maeva
Some how I love this peace.......
Young Asher
+Bobby Maeva me too :)
andy T
So much harmony going on, love it too
Ben Nucaro
piece
Ben Nucaro
but yeah, me too
boomer1954ful
You love this piece of music. It gives a sense of peace.
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Jetthead18
I think the Wilbur Hatch Orchestra (Ricky Ricardo Orchestra) played a much better version on I Love Lucy
Nadya Rossi
"King Cat" Walsh?
rallypoint1
Play this at 1.25 speed at it’s the same!!! Crazy man!!!
ronald ciccone
Benny Goodman From The Great City Of Chicago.
3than
Playing this for pep band
Robert Castrejon
My favorite standard
monica bella
BENNY 💖
Jim Steinbacher
Happy Birthday, Mr. Goodman (05/30/1909)
Miles Winslow
I was born in 1966 and I have the same birthday. When I was in Iraq I would listen to the old standards like this. I would also listen to songs from the Vietnam War era, both as a salute to previous soldiers and I'm not a huge fan of music made after 2000.
Coenraad van Essen
I have the same taste in music, although I do kinda also like some songs of Robbie William's.
rallypoint1
Dig that dancing bear! Man it’s the coolest!! Coolest?? It’s the hottest!!!
barry werner
I feel like I am on a B-17 ......
KahunaKool
barry werner Yea, stuck in the gunner ball on the belly of the plane, completely exposed to everything.
Cyril Euscobar
barry werner On a Forest Sherman class DD somewhere patrolling the South Pacific.
Anthony Cevallos
Hopefully not over Berlin or Tokyo
r
I feel like I've just come back from the war...
berzerker1100
@Anthony Cevallos Those Guys had BALLS ! and so did all the G.I.s 🇺🇸 God bless Em all !
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Doctor Nemmo
Vení, buen hombre.
Joe Rhodes
Pretty sure this very recording was in Woody Allen's movie ' Small time crook's '.
Vintage EXTRA
Came here for the thumbnail 😍😍
Ben Parsons
i be playing this for band
Emily Poole
Still here inn crazy 2021
JAMIE ARTHUR
W O W !
ImhotepRamses
Nice Benny.......
Dugald Gonsal
......Aaaaahhhhhh .................those were the days!
mbiernacki9
Do you know who played on trumpet here ?
scott g. hanson
oh yeah good stuff
SeafireM 1015
No gods or kings,only man
e S
Ay cool it drew. This aint no under water adventure
scott g. hanson
oh yeah good stuff i can't believe him and i on the same website itunes a lot of stars way bigger than me
Idaho
I Love Lucy brought me here. Where Lucy gets her Eyes examined, Jitterbug Dance scene.
Jason Tucher
Me: Say Janie, I’m having a great time dancing with you tonight. You’re lighting up like I haven’t seen before.
Janie: I’ll say handsome! I’m having the best night of my life! I don’t know how it could get any better.
Me: Have you ever been to the hot springs?
Janie: Why no! Are they really hot?
Me: Of course! And afterward, since were by it, I’ll drive you up the mountain in my Cadillac so you can see every light in town!
Janie: What a swell idea! I’ve never been on a mountain either. Will we be safe?
Me: Baby as long as you’re with me, you don’t have to worry bout nothin! One more dance and we’ll split this joint.
Janie: Oh how much I love you! You know how to have a good time.
We stare into each other’s sapphire eyes and share a kiss on the dance floor of the casa cabana.
jr 55
I'm a 65 yr old man who's listened to rock and metal for most of his life. This song and a few others of similar quality just put me in a nostalgic trance for something I never actually experienced. Great music is transcendent.
loril diamond
I know, this is just so classic. Everyone can enjoy it. Truly timeless.
loril diamond
So true, I can come back to this time and time again. I wasn't born when "swing" was prevalent. Was lucky enough to catch this in an old movie. They need to bring it back for the new generations!
Karen O'Shaughnessy
This would have been my parents’ and grandparents’ time, and I love this music!
littlezig59
You remind me of my grandpa. He liked that tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Dan Lunham
I'm with you. My dad, a jazz bassist who played his first gigs in the mid-30s as Goodman, et al were elevating culture, was convinced that, had not World War II stolen the zeitgeist, jazz was so powerful a democratizing influence social and political change would have come along for the ride, the same aesthetically elevating ride.
marilyn baumann
When I listen to these great big bands I think of my mom and dads era. There will never be great music like this ever so I treasure it.
kiki taube-hansen
My father loved this song. It was played at his funeral. It´s also one of my favourite songs :)
Kriger270
May he rest in peace
Rachel Bradley
I'm 53 and love it. And I know 30-somethings who like this music, too. Good music never goes out of style, yo.