So you met someone who
Set you back on your heels,
Goody goody!
So you met someone and
Now you know how it feels,
Goody goody!
So you gave him your heart too,
Just as I gave mine to you,
And he broke it in little pieces,
And now how do you do?

So you lie awake
Just singing the blues all night,
Goody goody!
So you think that love's a
Barrel of dynamite,
Hurray and hallelujah!
You had it coming to ya,
Goody goody for him,
Goody goody for me,
And I hope you're satisfied
You rascal you... hey!

All comments from YouTube:

@moniquezhang1660

3y↑27

I’m 22 years old, jazz pianist. Benny Good man’s swing classics gave me a great influence on my improv (I play stride piano, standard swing and early jazz styles). Young generations should listen to these vintage classics!

@inkoinfinity2

I'm a few years older but I'm still young and love music such as this

@SirParcifal

5y↑30

my grandparents introduced me to their music - The Greatest Generation and still going!

@Nytblade

5y↑2

It's actually called the "Lost Generation" up to 1936.

@obiej17

3y↑19

Im 35 and love so much about all classics. Not just the music. Lets keep it alive. Share with friends. Put in ur playlists etc. Thanks for upload!

@moniquezhang1660

3y↑2

I agree. Unfortunately These music doesn’t have a lot of audiences and disappearing. There are always beauties in vintage classics, great big bands and soloists …

@veg4ev

4y↑11

Benny and Orchestra My Personal All-Time Favorite BIG BAND

@TwangGuru

5y↑12

Benny Goodman was a great musician... his solos are all worth study by all musicians. They're paradigms of melodic construction.

@cristovamsouza648

1y↑3

Eita coisa boa !!

@gyeongjeong9682

4y↑12

@jmm1000

3y↑5

Warm thoughts today of a kind family friend, David Spivak who passed away a few years ago, a friend of my mothers. He knew music; helping me shop for the right Leslie speaker, and presenting me with a hard to get, 2 inch thick fake-book of music and standards - priceless! Yes, David's uncle was none other than the great bandleader, Charlie Spivak.

I recall my mother being thrilled with the songs in the book David gave us. It was great to learn the actual title
s of the classics in song-snippets heard growing up with Carl Stalling's music in Warner Brother cartoons. If would said i didnt recognize a song title, she would say "Oh, you know that one!"...and proceed to sing the chorus, and I would.

One of the songs in the middle of the book was one that I didnt know...and she was particularly emphatic that it was a great one!
"You don't know Goody-Goody??. Oh! That's a MUST for dancing!"

@althejazz

2y↑1

It's things like this that put the fear of hell into today's 'popsters'. If things like this were to be put out on mainstream radio, tin-pan alley would be out of business overnight !

@TheLakingc

2y↑2

A bit before my time, but remember hearing it in the 50s and early 60s. I don't know what made me start singing it. Thanks so much!

@Trombonology

4y↑22

"Please don't make me sing that damn song!" was the great Helen Ward's reaction to this catchy, insistent ditty. Johnny Mercer had seen "goody goody" on a menu in a Chinese restaurant and jotted it down, for future use. Was Helen pleasantly surprised or very sorry when this trifle turned out to be a big hit? In any case, she concealed her lack of enthusiasm most convincingly in this superb vocal.

@swingman5635

4y↑4

That's funny! This is one of my favorites from a long list of Helen's vocals. Just goes to show you,what may seem sublime to us, could be torture to the artist.

@Trombonology

4y↑4

@@swingman5635 So true! I think it's a cute and clever tune, but it may have seemed too much of a novelty to Helen.

@chetpomeroy1399

19w

I'm familiar with the version sung by Frankie Lymon in 1955, but didn't know this song went that far back!

@wantsomecoffee

4y↑10

the real deal right here folks.

@Corporations8MyBaby

2y↑1

So good. 👏

@juanmanuelmolinacarrillo4612

2y↑3

another example of the music of "Mr Swing"

@benmcdonnell4167

3y↑4

Key change at 0:47 and sax section backing riff at 1:37 my favourite bits of this slick and cheerful arrangement

@34Packardphaeton

2y↑2

Helen Ward lived into her nineties!

@mertkarabey

Actually she died on April 21, 1998 at the age of 81.

@34Packardphaeton

@@mertkarabey ... Oh... my error

@mertkarabey

2y↑2

@@34Packardphaeton She was such a singer that we wish she were still alive.

@jasonplatt2228

37w

@@mertkarabey Big Band singer Bea Wain (famous for her time with the Larry Clinton Orchestra and for her radio show she hosted with her husband Andre Baruch) lived to the age of 100!

@MapleSyrupPoet

2y↑1

Woody Allen dreams of playing ▶️ like this fella 😅

@claudespeed80

47w↑1

It’s funny how when I go out in public wearing my 1940’s suit with the overcoat and ppl will give me looks like I’m a shiny carrot
I’m in my late 20’s

@BillyBumbler-jn2nx

39w

Ich liebe diese Kleidung, aber wo bekomme ich sie?

@raanangeberer1903

1y↑1

How would you compare this with Frankie Lymon's version? I've heard that many times, but this is the first time I'm heaving this version.

@imnotajuveniledelinquent

Same.

@brotherchason

2y↑4

“Gooty-gootyy” lmao. RIP Frankie Lymon, you saved this track

@magneto7930

1y↑1

Although I love anything by Benny Goodman, Frankie's version is the absolute best!

@HurricaneGregor

I'm partial to the Freak Kitchen rendition of this song :)

But I will say I do love this genre. Take the "A" Train (or really anything by Duke Ellington) was an early favorite of mine.

Then you have VSOP/Return to Forever/Mahavishnu Orchestra for your more "modern" jazz fusion.