This 56-minute CD contains 20 tunes recorded live for radio broadcast during three sessions in New York between 1937-1940. This previously unreleased music is from the brief five-year period where Berigan led a big band. The music consists of popular swing standards and a few original tunes. The personnel is almost totally different on each of these three live sessions. The sound quality is very high, and there is brilliant, explosive trumpet playing throughout by Bunny Berigan, as well as other fine soloists. As can clearly be heard, Berigan was capable of bringing out the best in his musicians.
Bunny Berigan, Steve Lipkins, Irving Goodman, John Fallstich, Truman Quigley – trumpet / Sonny Lee, Morey Samuel, Bobby Jenny, Max Smith – trombone / Joe Dixon, alto saxophone & clarinet / Sid Perlmutter, Charlie & Joe DiMaggio – alto saxophone / George Auld, Larry Walsh, Johnny Castaldi, Clyde Rounds – tenor saxophone / Joe Lipman, Buddy Kloss – piano / Tommy Morgan, guitar / Arnold Fishkind, Mort Stulmaker – string bass / George Wetlling, Paul Collins – drums / Ruth Bradley, Danny Richards – vocal.
I Can’t Get Started
I Can’T Get Started
You Can’t Run Away FromLove Tonight
You Can’T Run Away From Love Tonight
Swanee River
Swanee River
I Can’t Get Started
I Can’T Get Started
Ay Ay Ay
I Poured My Heart Into A Song
I Poured My Heart Into A Song
Caravan
Caravan
Night Song
Night Song
Swingin’ And Jumoin’
Swingin’ And Jumpin’
Little Gate’s Special
Little Gate’S Special
I Can’t Get Started
I Can’?T Get Started
I Can’t Get Started
I Can’T Get Started
Swingin’ On the Campus
Swingin’ On The Campus
Maybe
Maybe
Rhumboogie
Rhumboogie
There I Go
There I Go
Tuxedo Junction
Tuxedo Junction
A Million Dreams Ago
Marcheta
Marcheta
I Can’t Get Started
I Can’T Get Started