78 RPM - Various Artists - A Symposium Of Swing - Victor

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Various Artists
Label:	Victor
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	C-28 / 36205 / 36206 / 36207 / 36208
Date:	1 Sep 1937
Format:	12"
Title:	A Symposium Of Swing
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	6 Own, 2 Want
Price Guide:	$100
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PRICE GUIDE

$100

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Benny Goodman	Sing, Sing, Sing - Part 1	Louis Prima	10.0 Rate
B	Benny Goodman	Sing, Sing, Sing - Part 2	Louis Prima	10.0 Rate
C	"Fats" Waller And His Rhythm	Honeysuckle Rose	Razaf, Waller, Immermann	10.0 Rate
D	"Fats" Waller And His Rhythm	Blue, Turning Grey Over You	Andy Razaf, Thomas Waller	10.0 Rate
E	Tommy Dorsey	Stop, Look and Listen	Ralph Freed, John Van Eps, George Van Eps	Rate
F	Tommy Dorsey	Beale Street Blues	W. C. Handy	Rate
G	Bunny Berigan	I Can't Get Started	Ira Gershwin, V. Duke	Rate
H	Bunny Berigan	The Prisoner's Song	Guy Massey	Rate

Notes

Four 12" 78rpm Record Album Set "A Symposium of Swing (individual discs: 36205, 36206, 36207, 36208)

Advertised in Life Magazine, Oct. 11, 1937, page 70.

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Comments and Reviews


sheepdip1234 SUBS 1st Dec 2015		It's really frustrating that certain countries block the content. Why can't they just let folks enjoy the music that perhaps they missed when they were too young and would like to enjoy now.



xiphophilos 20th Aug 2015		That's frustrating. SwingMan1937 is now SwingMan1938, and he's apparently trying to re-upload everything that was on the earlier channel, so there's hope.



fixbutte 20th Aug 2015		Again, not everything available in Germany anymore: A Side and G Side "could" contain music of SME (i.e. Sony Music Entertainment), about which YouTube could not arrive at an agreement with the GEMA (i.e. Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte; in English: Society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights) yet. There once was a YouTube user who had uploaded all eight sides of the album set, including C and D, but his playlist (SwingMan1937) doesn't exist anymore.



xiphophilos 20th Aug 2015		I've now found both Tommy Dorsey tunes on youtube as well, thanks to Cliff aka cdbpdx: E Side: F Side:



fixbutte 19th Aug 2015		Thanks, xiphophilos, for the additional upload of the 4-page album insert with a lot of information about the music. A most interesting read.



xiphophilos 9th Aug 2015		G Side: H Side:



xiphophilos 7th Aug 2015		The source of the mp3s is this site: https://xpda.com/dad78s/



fixbutte 7th Aug 2015		And here's the rousing 12 minute live version from the Carnegie Hall 1938 concert, with wonderful New York footage of that year: Listen and watch!



fixbutte 7th Aug 2015		Hi xiphophilos, the linked mp3s don't seem to work for me. Maybe you better give a direct link to the website where you found them? Surprisingly, the link to Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing" (Almost nine minutes of pure jammin'! ) that I've posted on June 23 does work again for me (in Germany) now.



xiphophilos 7th Aug 2015		Someone put his dad's collection, including 6 songs from this album, on mp3s that can hopefully be enjoyed outside the US as well: Benny Goodman, Sing Sing Sing pt. 1 Benny Goodman, Sing Sing Sing pt. 2 Fats Waller, Blue Turning Grey Over You Fats Waller, Honeysuckle Rose Bunny Berigan, I Can't Get Started Bunny Berigan, The Prisoner's Song



xiphophilos 23rd Jun 2015		Thanks for adding the link even though you yourself can't enjoy it. It's great to hear the whole 9 minutes without having to flip the record.



fixbutte 23rd Jun 2015		Here's a YouTube link to the whole Benny Goodman record, though not accessible anymore in Germany (and possibly in some other countries too) because of copyright reasons: Thanks for your link anyway. It's the first time I've seen the Benny Goodman Quartet in action, possibly the best ever quartet in jazz history, and, moreover, one of the first interracial bands, featuring Lionel Hampton on vibraphone and Teddy Wilson on piano besides Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa.



xiphophilos 22nd Jun 2015		I knew you'd appreciate this one. ;-) I certainly love listening to it. I haven't yet found a video of the 9 min. version of "Sing, Sing, Sing", but this one is also neat even though the quality could be better. It shows the Benny Goodman Orchestra in the 1937 film "Hollywood Hotel" with "Sing, Sing, Sing", followed by the Goodman Quartet with "I've got a Heartful of Music": link



fixbutte 22nd Jun 2015		The album was released in September 1937 (the latest recordings, Bunny Berigan's sides, were made on August 7, 1937) or October 1937 (LIFE Magazine ad, Oct. 11, 1937, p. 70, see notes). In December 1937, "I Can't Get Started" was released in an abridged form on a 10" record (Victor 25728, reissued on Victor P 134 album), the two abridged parts of "Sing, Sing, Sing" followed in February 1938 (Victor 25796).



fixbutte 22nd Jun 2015		A Symposium Of Swing, an album set of four 12-inch (longer playing) 78 rpm records by Victor Records, is a milestone of swing music, even of jazz in general, featuring among others the original issues of Benny Goodman's famous "Sing, Sing, Sing" (nearly 9 minutes on two sides) and of Bunny Berigan's legendary extended "I Can't Get Started" (4:45 minutes long), together with a brilliant instrumental version of one of the greatest Fats Waller songs, "Honeysuckle Rose". Tommy Dorsey's main contribution, "Stop, Look And Listen", over five minutes long, is lesser known but equally catchy . This was also the first jazz album with a special printed cover, underlining the commercial impact that swing had reached already in 1937 (in the late 1930s and early 1940s, swing would be the most popular musical style in the USA).

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